US836401A

US836401A - Railroad-tie.

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Publication number: US836401A
Application number: US31097306A
Authority: US
Inventors: Edwin De W Peugh
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1906-04-10
Filing date: 1906-04-10
Publication date: 1906-11-20
Anticipated expiration: 1923-11-20

Description

QPATENTED NOV. 20, 1906. E. DE W. PEUGH.

RAILROAD TIE.

APPLIOATION FILED APR. 10. 1906.

witness w W m m same time securing UNITED STATES PATENT orrion.

EDlVlN DE W. PEUGH, OF HUBDLAND, MlSSOURl.

RAILROAD-TEE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 20, 1906.

Application filed April 10,1906. Serial No) 310,973.

or similar fastening devices for securing rails to the ties.

The invention includes peculiar rail-attaching means for securing the rails to tie, which securing means is of such a substantial nature as to admit, if desired, of dispensing with the usual fish-plates and bolts or fastenings customarily provided to connect meeting ends of rails.

The invention resides also in other details end of said of construction, which will be more fully pointed out hereinafter.

For a full understanding of the invention and themerits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for efieoting the result reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is tie embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view through the tie, rails in position. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line X X of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the wedge.

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

In the drawings the numeral 1 designates the tie, which is preferably of metallic construction and formed to provide a hollow bodyopen at the bottom thereof and closed at the ends, as shown at 2. The body of the tie, by reason of struction, is adapted to receive the ballast material of the road-bed and is consequently more substantially held in position, affording a more rigid and firm bearing than is constituted by the ordinary wooden ties, at the incident to the use of the latter.

The top of the tie is provided with railseats 3, transversely thereof, and at one end of each seat 3 is located an integral upwardly-projecting Wing 4, adapted to engage of the above 1 tymeto obviate the necessity for use of spikes g- EDWIN DE W. PEUGH,

vided for each of the wings correspond the ertured so clamp member 6 the above-mentioned conthe necessary resiliency the rails 5 and support the same at one side, a removable clamping member 6 being pro- 4 to cooperate therewith in supporting the rails and rigidly securing the latter to the tie. The members 6 are of peculiar formation, having the outer extremities thereof beveled, as shown at 7, to

with the upwardly and outwardly beveled end of the seat 3, in which each clamp member is arranged. The clamp members 6 are each provided with a lug projeoting from the under side thereof and ex- E tending through a vertical opening 8 1n the top of the tie. This lug 9 is transversely apas to receive a wedge 10, passing transversely through suitable openings in opposite sides of the tie 1. The wedge 10 is adapted to be moved longitudinally or transversely with reference to the tie by means of a nut 1l,'which is screwed upon a threaded wedge and bears against a spring 12, arranged between said nut and the adjacent side of the tie 1. The lug 9 of each inclines downwardly toward the member 4 adjacent, and thus as the wedge 10, which cooperates with the clamp member 6, is adjusted the downward pressure exerted thereby will tend to force the engaging end of such clamp member 6 hard against the exerting a lateral pressure to force said clamp member against the side of the rail to facilitate the rigidity of the latter in an obvious manner. The beveled end 7 of each clamp member 6 also tends to force the clamp mem ber laterally toward the adjacent wing 4 when the wedge 10 is being adjusted to exert a downward pressure upon such clamp mem ber. It will be obvious that rails held in place by ties and clamping means embodying the invention are more rigidly secure than those most commonly in use at the present time, and, furthermore, the advantages of the invention whereby a structure is secured admitting of quick removal and attachment of either the rails or ties are very apparent.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- In combination, a railway-tie of hollow construction, rail-supporting wings projecting upwardly from the top of the tie, said tie being provided in its top with rail-seats to receive the basal portions of rails, clamp members cooperatin with the wings and disposed on top of the tie, lugs projecting downwardly from the clamp members andpassing base of the rail, at the same time through Vertical openings in the top of the tie and inclining toward the wings aforesaid, said lugs having trensVerse openings theretbrough, Wedges passing transversely through the opposite sides ofthe tie and the openings of the lugs aforesaid, nuts screwed upon ends ofthe Wedges to adjust the same in the manner specified, and springs inter-v posed between the nuts and the adjacent side of the tie. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. i EDWIN DE N. PEUGH. [L. s.] Witnesses I S. QSURRY, ML E. CHRISTOPHER.