US854504A - Metallic tie and rail-fastener. - Google Patents

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PATENIEDMAYZL 19m. 'F. r. KAMP, ma; R. K. GUNDY.

METALLIG TIE AND RAIL FASTENER. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25, 1907.

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FRANK-F. KAMP, JR AND ROBERT K. GUNDY, or LAWRENCE, PENNSYI VANIA. t

METALLlC TIE AND RAlL -FAQTENER.

Specification. of Letters Patent.

Patented May 21, 1907.

Application filed March 25, 1907. Serial N0 364,281-

To all when 1 it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK F. KAMP, Jr. and RQBERT K. GUNDY, citizens of the United States of America, resir ling at Lawrence, in the county of Washington and State,

improved tie for preventing the rails of a track from spreading or becoming vertically displaced with relation to the tie.

Our invention aims to prevent the numerous accidents in connection with railways due to the faulty construction of rail fastendevised a. tie that can be easily and quickly tamped to'form a solid bearing for rails, and

' in connection with the tie, we use permanent upon a tie. i

' up'bn the outer sides of the rails it will be imouter rail fasteners and detachable inner rail fasteners, it being a well known fact that the stresses and strains of rolling stock passing over a track have a tendency to spread rails In using permanent fasteners possible for the rails to spread r W 1th the above and other ObjGCtS in-v ew, which Wlll more readily appear as the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts to behereinafter more fully described and then specifically pointed out in the appended claims,

Referring to the drawing forming part of this specification, like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which:

Figure 1 is a view of our improved tie and rail fasteners partly in elevation and partly in section, Fig. 2 is a plan of the tie. illustrating a fastener securing a rail upon one end of the tie, Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the split key used-in connection with the tie, Fig.

4 is a perspective view of a wedge-shaped fish bar forming part of our improved rail fastener, Fig. 5 is an enlarged perspective view of one endof thefish bar.

To put our invention into practice, we construct our improved tie of metal, the tie conforming in sh ape to the ordinary wooden tie. In forming the tie of metal we cut away the sides as at 1, 1 and provide the same with a longitudinally disposed bore 2 having its end terminating in the top of the tie, as-at 3. The bore 2 serves two purposes namely to dispense with an expensive solid metallic tie and provide means wherebythe tie can be tamped in road bed. The bore 2 can be filled with ballast or similar material, which adds weight to the tie without incurring considerable expense. To drain the bore 2 We provide each end of the tie with openings 4.

The tie adjacent to each one of the bore openings is provided with an integral. rail outer side of a rail 6 mounted upon the tie.

The tie is also provided With tapering dovetail grooves 7 pro vided'at their smaller ends with openings 8, each opening branching to provide a triangular shaped block 9, the object'of which will be presently described.

I In the tapering dove-tail shaped grooves 7 are mounted tapering fish bars 10, said bars being dove tailed as at 11, to fit within the grooves 7. These bars are adapted to em brace the inner sides of the rail 6,'and to assist in placing or removing the bars, we provide each end of the bar with an enlargement 12, to receive the blow of a hammer or similar instrument used in placing the bars in their respective grooves. e p In connection with each bar, we use a key 14 said key being split as at 15. The keys formed in the cut away ends 17 of the bars, said keys passing downwardly into the openings 8 and engaging the triangular blocks 9, where the key is split when being driven into the openings 16 and 8.

1 It will be apparent from the illustration of and reliable means for holding two rails upon a tie, and from the novel construction of the tie, it W1ll be observed that the same is cast support or fastener 5 adapted to brace theare adapted to pass through openings 16 our invention that We have devised positive metal and forms a durable structure capable :of withstanding the rough usage to which ties are ordinarily subjected.

Itdsobvious that such changes in the size,

vproportion and minor details of construction as are permissible by the appended claims, mayberesorted to without departing from v thesg nt and scope of the invention.

, t we-claim and desire to secure byv I'Letters Patent, is:--

1i,v In a metallic tie and-rail fastener, the

combinationwith rails, of a metal tie having a longitudinally disposed bore formed therein having its-ends terminating at the top of said tie, said tie "having openings formed therein.- to drain said bore, integral fasteners 'can'ied by. the ends of said tie for bracing the {ou er sides of said rails, shaped .fish bars detachably mounted upon the top of said tie and bracing the inner sides dove tail wedgeof said rails, said tie being formed with triangular'shaped blocks, split keysadapted to pass downwardly through said bars and engage sald blocks and have their ends separated to lock said keys in said tie. v

- 2. Ina'nqetallic tie and rail fastener, the combination with rails, of a metal tie having a longitudinally disposed bore formed therein, fasteners carried FRANK 'F. KAMP, JR. ROBERT K. GUNDY.

Witnesses:

MAX H. SRoLovITz, A. J. TRIGG.

by said tie and bracing the outer sides ofsaid rails, dove tail fasten-

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