US853176A - Metallic railway-tie. - Google Patents

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No. 853,176. PATENTED MAY 7-, 1907. J.KAYLOR.

METALLIC RAILWAY TIE.

APPLIOATION FILED 0012 5. 1996.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN KAYLOR, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO JACOB F. KAYLOR, OF TAZEWELL, ILLINOIS.

METALLIC RAILWAY-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

iratenteol ill/Lay 7, 1907.

To (LZZ whom it flea/y concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN KAYLOR, a resident of the city of Decatur, county of Macon, and State of Illinois, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Railway-Ties, of which the following'is a specification.

One object of this invention is to provide means for facilitating the tamping of ballast or earth under the rail-bearing parts of the ties; another object is to provide for an automatic supply of earth or ballast under the ends of the ties and another object is to provide simple and secure means for securing the meeting ends of rails together and to the ties.

The invention is exemplified in the structure hereinafter described and it is defined in the appended claims.

In the drawings forming part of this specification Figure 1 is a plan of a piece of track constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one of my improved ties; and Fig. 3 is a section on line :20 in Fig. 1.

The ties at the conjunction of the rails vary somewhat from the intermediate ties, as will hereinafter appear, but the facilities for tamping the earth or ballast under the ties and for supplying the ends of the ties with a surplus of filling material to be automatically absorbed, are the same in both cases.

Each tie comprises a pair of side extensions 1, rail-sustaining cross plate 2, an inter mediate horizontal bearing plate 3 having its ends bent obliquely downward, and end walls 4 provided with downward extensions 5. The intermediate ties, or the ties used between the conjunction of 'a pair of rails,

are notched to receive the rails and are recessed to hold the cushion blocks 9, of wood or other jar-deadening material. The rails are secured to the intermediate ties by means of clips as 7 and bolts 8.

The ties at the conjunctions of the rails are widened beneath the rails, a pair of fish plates 12 are used to secure the rails together, and lugs 13, formed on the fish plates, are secured to the ties by means of bolts 14. The. fish plates are attached to the rails in the utual manner by means of bolts 15.

The rail-sustaining plates 2 are above and separate from the downturned ends of the intermediate plate 3, with the result that oblique tamping slots 10 lead from the upper surface of the ties to beneath the rail-sustaining plates. The end plates 4 are separate from the rail-sustaining plates and incline inward, the extensions 5 project below the lower surface of the ties, and the spaces between the end plates and the rail-sustaining plates act as tamping slots and as receptacles for earth or ballast; see the reference numeral 11.

As the ties settle, earth or ballast may be tamped under the rail-sustaining plates 2, through the openings 10 and 11 and the openings may be left filled with ballast or earth to supply the shortage created by settling.

The extensions 5 extend downward to wall the incline in the track grade that leads away from the rails, and to hold the ballast from sidewise drift, and when the pockets 11 are supplied with earth or ballast the grade at the ends of the ties will be maintained intact for a considerabie time.

The lugs on the fish plates provide simple and effective means for making secure connections between the ties and the conjoined ends of the rails.

I do not wish to be restricted to the precise form and proportion herein shown and described, and what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

1. 'A metallic railway tie having tamping slots leading obliquely from the upper sur face of the tie to beneath the rail-sustaining parts thereof.

2. A metallic railway tie comprising up right side plates, rail-sustaining cross plates connecting the side plates, and a horizontal bearing plate having both its ends near said sustaining plates bent obliquely downward.

3. A metallic railway tie having oblique slots leading from its upper surface, inside the rails, to below the rail-sustaining parts of the tie, and also having bottomless pockets outside the rails.

4. A metallic railway tie composed of side bars 1, intermediate plate 3, rail-sustaining plates 2 and end plates 4 inclined inward and having the downward extensions 5 the railsustaining plates being separated from the other plates to form the slot 10 and the combined slot and pocket 11.

5. A metallic railway tie comprising upright side plates, rail-sustaining cross plates connecting the side plates, a horizontal bearing plate having both its ends near said sustaining plates bent obliquely downward, and end Walls connecting said side plates at points remote from the sustaining plates, and inclining inward toward them.

JOHN KAYLOR.

Witnesses:

EARLE B. Donn, J. M. DoDD.

It is hereby certified that the residence of the assignee in'Letters Patent No. 853,176, granted May 7, 1907, upon the application of John Kaylor, of Decatur, Illinois, for an improvement in Metallic Railway-Ties, was erroneously written and printed Tazewell, Illinois, whereas said residence should have been written and printed Pekin, Illinois; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the ease in the Patent Ofiice.

Signed and sealed this 2d day of July, A. 1)., 1907.

' o. o. BILLINGS,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

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