US829065A - Rail-joint. - Google Patents

Description

No. 829,065. 7 PATENTED AUG 21, 1906. A. ETTLIN.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 5, 1906.

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A. ETTLIN.

RAIL JOINT.

ATION FILED MAR. 6, 1906.

. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 21, 1906.

Application filed March 5, 1906. Serial No. 304,543.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANTON ETTLIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Noble, in the county of Marion and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints, of which the folowing is a specification.

This invention embodies novel improvements in rail-joints and the intent of the invention is to subserve the rigidity of the rails at the point of meeting to afford a positive and firm connection between the rails and to secure a connection which will admit of readily connecting the rails together or detaching the same, as required under actual conditions of service.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a rail-joint constructed in accordance with the invention, a side of the end of one of the rails being broken away to bring out more clearly the interlocking connection of the extension with the other rail. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing the rails in the operation of connecting the same together. Fig. 3 is a horizontal longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing the form of the rail ends. Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing a modification of the invention wherein the interlocking parts of the rails are detachably applied thereto. Fig. 6 is a detail erspective view of the socket and extension lates applied. Fig. 7 is a detail view of t e extension-plate.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followin description and indicated in all the views 0 the drawings by the same reference characters.

In the preferred embodiment of the invention the. rails 1 are each provided at the ends thereof with extensions 2, said extensions being connected with the rails at one side thereof and integral with said rails in the construction which is illustrated in the preferred embodiment of the invention. The extensions 2 project some distance beyond the extremities of each rail, and the side portions of the rails opposite those with which the extensions are connected are formed with sockets or seats 3, in which end portions of the extensions 2 are received when the rails are conand lateral stress.

nected together in accordance with the invention. Thus the extension at the end of one rail is adapted to engage in the socket or seat 3 at the same side of the other rail, such engagement subserving the rigidity of the joint means with reference to both vertical The sockets or seats 3 are peculiar in formation, the lower portions thereof extending beneath the upper side of the basal flanges of the rails, as shown at 4.

The extensions 2 are formed at the outer ends thereof with downwardly-extending projections 5, adapted to engage in-the lower extremities of the sockets or seats 3 when the rails 1 are assembled and in horizontal alinement to admit of connecting the rail ends so that the projections 5 of the extensions 2 will enter the lower portions 4 of the sockets 3, and it is necessary that the top portions of the extensions 2 be cut away or reduced toward their outer extremities. The above construction of the extensions 2 is such, therefore, that in connecting the rails together the ends thereof may be arranged at an angle until the extensions 2 enter the sockets or seats 3, whereupon the rails may be lowered to a position in horizontal alinement, which will cause the projections 5 to enter the lower portions 4 of the sockets 3, said projections so interlocking the rails together as to prevent longitudinal. separation thereof, though sufficient movement may be permitted to allow for expansion and con traction. The members 5 thus constitute means for preventing the rails from longitudinal separation, while the members 2 coact to facilitate the rigidity of the connection, as hereinbefore pointed out.

The construction described above is advantageous in that it obviates the necessity for use of bolts and fish-plates, simplifying the number of parts of the joint means and adding to the rigidity thereof in a manner which will be evident.

Figs. 5, 6, and 7 show a modification of the invention, carrying out the principle included in the first figures of the drawings, the only difference being that in the modification the interlocking parts are detachably secured to the rails, so that the invention may be applied, if necessary, to the construction of rails now most commonly in use. In the modification the numeral 10 denotes the socket-plates, the numeral 11 the socket thereof, and the numeral 12 a longitudinal basal extension to be attached to the base by suitable fastenings 13, passing vertically through the base portion of the rail to which the socket-plate may be secured. I-Iorizontal fastenings 14 are used to secure the body of the plate to the web of the rail, as shown most clearly inthe drawings. Each rail will be provided not only with asocketplate at each end, but will also have an extension-plate 15 secured to its opposite side, said plate 15 having the longitudinal locking extension 16 projecting therefrom to be re ceived in the socket 11 to establish the connection before described with reference to the preferred embodiment of the invention. The operation of the parts included in the modification is substantially the same as that hereinbefore set forth, and it will be observed that it is contemplated to either secure the socket-plate and extensionplate by means of fastenings or they may be brazed or welded to the rail or otherwise applied, as desired. The fastenings passing through i the web of the rail may secure both the extension and socket plates in an obvious way. Having thus described the invention,what

is claimed as new is- 1. In a railjoint, the combination of meeting ends of rails, extensions projecting therefrom, the rails being provided at one side thereof with sockets to receive the extensions aforesaid, and means coacting with the extensions aforesaid to prevent longitudinal separation of the rails.

2. In a rail-joint, the combination of meeting ends of rails, extensions projecting therefrom, the rails being provided at one side thereof with sockets to receive the extensions aforesaid, said sockets extending below the top portions of the basal flanges of the rails, and projections carried by the extensions aforesaid and adapted to enter the lowermost portions of the sockets to prevent longitudinal separating movement of the rails.

3. In a rail-joint, the combination of meeting ends of rails, extensions projecting from said ends longitudinally thereof and connected with the rails at sides of the same, the opposite sides of the rails having sockets therein, the socket of one rail receiving the end portion of the extension of the other rail, the sockets of the rails extending at their tions integral with the outer end of the extensions and adapted to enter the lowermost portions of the sockets to prevent longitudinal separating movement of the rails, the top portions of the extensions being cut away toward their outer ends to admit of engagement of the projections in the sockets as above mentioned.

4. In a rail-joint, the combination of m-eet-' ing ends of rails, a socket-plate attached to an end of each rail at one side thereof, and an extension-plate attached to such end at the opposite side, the said extensionlates being provided with projections whic enter the sockets and form an interlocking connection therewith to prevent any relative movement of the rail ends.

5. In a rail-joint, the combination of meeting ends of rails, a socket-plate attached to an end of each rail at one side thereof, an extension-plate attached to such end at the op' posite side, the socket-plate embodying a body attached to the web portion of the rail, and a longitudinal basal extension secured to the base portion of the rail, and the extension-plate embodying a hook portion to engage in the socket of the socket-plate as specified.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANTON ETTLIN. [L. s.]

Witnesses:

R111. VON Br'iREN, JOSEPH KATHRINER.

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