US83813A - Improved rail way-rail splice - Google Patents

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JAMES WIXTED, or PORT CARBON, PENNSYLVANIA Letters .Patent No. 83,813, dated November 3, 1868.

IMPROVED RAILWAY-RAIL SPLICE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

-tion ofthe same.

My invention consists of a steel bar, adapted'to the railswhere the'y nearly meet each other, and to a splicing-bar, substantially as described hereaiter, `so\ that the saidsteel bar may afford a durable bearing for the car-Wheels, and'prevent the latter from acting injmiously on the rails, at andnear the ends of the same. i

In order to enable others skilled in the art to make and apply my invention, I will now proceed to describe the mode of vcarrying the same into effect, reference being had to the 'accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this speciication, and in which- Figures 1 and 2 are transverse sections of my improved rail-splice, and

Figure 3, a side view.

The rail, A, is of the ordinary form, having the usual tread a, web b, and lower anges d and d'.

A splicing-bar, Bis fitted to one side of the adjoining rails, part of -the bar bearing against the web b, the upper end of the bar against the bevelled under side of the tread, and the lower end, e, ofthe bar. being bent to embrace the flange d', as illustrated, in the drawing. v

To the opposite 4side of the adjoining rails is tted a splicing-bar, B,'of different form, excepting that its lower edge is made to embrace the iiange d of the rail, as the bar B embraces the flange d'.

, This splicing-bar B has ribs, f j, bearing against the web of the rail,- and its upper edge, where there vis a rib, h, terminates below the upper surface of the rails,

thus leaving a space for the introduction of the stee bar D, the hollowed edge of. which is adapted to the rounded flange, i, of the tread, the outer edge being I recessed for the reception of the rib h, of the, splicingbar B'-, upon the. top of whichthe steel bar bears, th( upper edgeofthe latter bar being on a level with or z .trile above the surface of the tread.

Bolts, E, pass through the two splicing-bars, an! through the -web of the two adjoining rails, the boli: being furnished with nuts, on screwing which tightl not only are the ends of the adjoining rails seeureh conned'between the splicing-bars, and thereby heh both laterally, vertically,` and longitudinally in theii proper relative position, but the-steel bar D is firmly griped between the rails and the splicing-bar B.

. Rails are more rapidly worn at the ends, where the) nearly meet each other, than elsewhere, owing to th car-wheels crossing the necessarily vacant space be tween the' adjoining rails.

The steel bar. D, however, crosses this space, an( hence affords a durable bearing forv the wheels, fron the detrimental action of which the ends of the rail: themselves are relieved.

I claim as my invention, and desire to secure bj Letters Patent- The steel bar D, adapted to the rails and to th splicing-bar B', substantially in the manner and for th purpose herein set forth.

' In testimony whereof, I have signed my name t this specification, in the presence of two subscribin,

witnesses.

JALMES WIXTED.

Witnesses: A

- F. W.l CONRAD,

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