US845313A

US845313A - Rail-joint.

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Publication number: US845313A
Application number: US31706306A
Authority: US
Inventors: Nils Myrin
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1906-05-16
Filing date: 1906-05-16
Publication date: 1907-02-26
Anticipated expiration: 1924-02-26

Description

No. 845,313. PATENTED FEB. 26, 190'?. N. MYRIN. RAIL JOINT.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 16, 1906.

Am f 1 NILS MYRIN, OF THIEF RVER FriLLS,- MINNESOTA.

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Specification of Letters Patent. p pplication tiled May 16,1906. Serial No. 317.063.

Be it known that L Nine MYRi-N, a citizen of the United States, residing at Thief River Falls, in the county of Rediiake and State of `Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints; and li do hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention,

such as will enable others skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same. f

My invention has for its object to provide an improved rail-joint; and to .this end it consists of the novel .construction and com-a.

bination of partsv hereinafter"described, and deiined in the claim:

The invention is illustrated-in the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views. I

' Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a plan view illustrating my invention applied l to connect the abutting endsv of two alined rails to a tie. -FigfQ is a vertical section taken on the line 9:2 m2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken on the line fc3 x3 of Fig. l. The numeral 1 indicates an ordinary railway-tie, rand the numeral 2 indicates abut-- ting end portions of rails, which, except as 'hereinafter pointed Lout, are of the usual construction.

rlhe numeral 3 indicates a metallic saddlei plate which is placed upon .the tie l and upon which the abutting or adjoining ends of the rails 2 are rested ila-twise. 0ntho outer side ot the rail the saddle-plate 3 is i'orlned with laterally-spaced stop-lugs 4, .against which-the outer edges of the ioot-ii'ange of tho rails directly press, These stop-lugs 4 prevent spreading of the rails. The saddle- `plateB is formed-with a plurality ofdepending transversely-extended anchoring-ilanges 5, that are quite sharp at their and are pressed into the tie l., thereby prevent-ing creeping movements of the saddleplats in the direction of the rails and also transversely of the rails. At transverselyo posite points and at its intermediate portion the saddle-plate 3 is formed with spikc- I passages 6, and just outward of these spikepassagessaid plate is preferably formed with raised lugs 7, against which the outer ortiene of the spike-heads engage, as' estv shawn La Eig. 2. The s are driven.

Patented Feb. 2S, 190'?.

extended ilanges of their heads impinge upon the i`oot-ilanges oi therails to lock the rails to the saddle-plate 3, and hence to the tie In accordance with my invention the abut-l ting ends of the rails are beveled or cut at an oblique angle, the said oblique out being in lane that extends from a point on the one side` of the head of the one spike to a point on the other side of the head of the other spike, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. lith this construction the two spikes 8 may be and are lolcated at transversely-opposite points, so .that-they act upon the rail in very much the same manner as it the rail was not out or separated in the vicinity thereof.

The numeral 9 indicates angular iishplates that overlap the points between abutting ends of the rails and are clamped to the opposite sides thereof by means of nutted bolts `10. The seats in the vertical webs of the rails through which the bolts 10 are passed should in practice beelongated, so as to permit endwise expansions and contractions of thc rails.

Thedevice while eicientjor the purposes had in view alcrds a cheap and practical construction.

Ahe combination Withe tie and a saddleplate secured thereon,- said saddie-platehaving spike-passages and ings 7 all located in a vertical plane that intersects the track at right angles, and havingat its outer side laterally-spaced rail-engaging stop-lugs e, of alined rails having their abutting ends resting upon said saddle-plate, the said abutting ends being cut obliquely from a point on one side of one of the spike-passages of said saddle-plate, to a point on the other side of the spike-passage of said plate, fish-plates se-v Nits infami Witnesses G. K. FARGO, Ui. Jacossou.