US831292A - Rail-joint. - Google Patents

Description

No. 831,292. PATENTBD SEPT. 18, 1906. G. MURLASITS.

RAIL JOIN T.

APPLICATION FILED JUNI'. so. 190e.

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UNITED. STAWENT GABRIEL MURLAsrrs, 0F LYNDoR-A.' rnNNsYLvANiA.

I ARAIL-contr.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented sept. raises.

Anuman ne@ June so. 1906. .serial no. 324.168.

To all whom it may concern; l v

Be it known that I, GABRIEL MUnLAsrrs, a

subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary,

residing -at Lyndora,l in the countyof Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have in# 'vented certain new and useful Im rovements in Rail-Joints, of which the fol owingmis a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings. j

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in rail-joints; andthe invention has for its object to provide novel means for firmly holding the confronting ends.of two sections of iails,whereby they cannot be displaced by rolling-stock passing over the same. l

The invention aims to dispense with the A nuts and bolts heretofore used in connection with rail-joints, and sto provide positive meansl for support-ing the ends of rails between tw'o tiesl or sleepers. y To this end 'Ip have devised 4a novel chair and fish-bar which lly hold the conrronting ends' of two rails and prevent said rails from spreading, at the same time. V

permitting of expansion andy contraction of said rails.

The detail construction. ofvmyl improved joint will be presenti described and specific.

vally pointed out in t e appended claims. j

Referring to the drawings forming art of this specification, like numerals of re erence designate corresponding parts throughout; the several views, in which-- i Figure 1 is a crossfse'ctional view equipped with my improved joints. Fig. 2 is Va perspective view of a joint. Fig. 3v is a cross-sectional view taken o line of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a similar view taken on line y 'y ofv Fig. 2. Fi 5 is a perspective view of my improved c air; and Fi lis a similar view ofa fish-bar usedwith t e chair, the bar being illustrated as partially inverted. l

To put my invention into practice, l construct my improved jointof a chair 1' and a detachable fish-bar 2, said bar being adapted to firmly hold the ends of two rails 3 and-4 v v spiked to said chair and embracing said rails,

. upon the chair 1.

. 55 be hereinaner described. .The base-plate' 5 The chair 1 comprises a baselate A5, carrying at its one edge a reinforced 'sh-bar, said bar having a flange 7 adapted to brace the outer. sides Aof the heads 8 ofthe rails and 4. The inner side of the fish-bar is recessed, as at 9, and rovided with a pluralityof recesses or poc ets 10, the object of whichwill.

of a track lat o osite edge. and adjacent toits ends which spikes pass to secure said chair, rais, and fish-bar 2 to ties orsleepers 12.

' The rails'y 3 and 4 are adapted to rest upon The rails are held by spikes 14, whichv are driven through the innermost openings 11 of the base-plate `5.' To prevent longitudinal movement of said rails, the web portions L5 said openings are mounted pins 17,*which enter the recesses or pockets 16 of the iishebar 6. These pins, in conjunction with the sh-bar 2, which will now be described, serve to prevent longitudinal movement of said rails.

The fish-bar 2 is adapted to seat upon the chair lland embrace the rails 3 and 4. The inner'side of the fish-.bar is provided with recesses or pockets 18 to receive the ends of the pins 1.7, while the base portion ofthe bar 2 is edge'of the bar is cut away, as at 20, in order that spikes 21 may engage thebar 2 and pass through the outermost openings 11 of the chair.

From the fore oing description it will be observedv that I ave ldevised la novel construction which is strong and durable and fully capable of taking care of the strains exerted upon the rails 3 and 4.

tails of construction as are permissible vby the appended claims may be resorted to without Ideparting from thejspirit and scope ofthe inu vention. What l claim, ters Patent, is

. .1." ln a lrail-joint, the combination .with rails having openings formed. in the web portions thereof,-` o a chairadapted to support the ends of said rails, and having a fish-bar bar and engaging th'elleads of said rails, said bar having pockets `formed therein, pins extending fthrough the' web portions of said rails andengaging in said pockets, a fish-bar said-ba-r-having pockets formed therein to' receive theop osite ends ofV said. ins, and means housed by 'saidbar and. in ependent thereof to 'secure' said rails to "said substantially as .described l rails having openings formed in their'web porthe chair and against the fish-bar 6 thereof..

It is obvious that such changes in thede- 2. Ina rail-joint, the combination with is proviV ed with spike-openings 11, throu h thereof are provided with openings 16, and in recessed,as at 19, to clear'the spikes 14.. The

and desire to secure by Letembracing said rails, a flange carried by said chair,

. tionsadj'acent their ends, of "a chair adapted f bars carried-by said chair and embracing said to snpport the ends of said rails, pins extendsaid mils, means to secure Said hars together, mg through the openlngs of said rails, nshland nmunsiwused by one o'l' said bars and independent thereof to seellre said mils to said ehnr, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof l aiix n iysignntln'e in the presence of two witnesses.

GABRIEL MURLASIFS.

rails, said bars having pockets formed therein to reeeive'the ends of said pins, means to secure said bars together7 and means housed by onetof said bars and independent thereof te secure said rails upon said chair, substanti'lly as described. A

3. The ,combina-tion with mils, of' a, chair, fish-bars carried by said Chair and embracing Witnesses:

(YilAs.v 1I. MILLER, F. J. FoRYNEn.

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