US859712A - Steel tie and rail-fastening. - Google Patents

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ITO-859,712. I PATENTED JULY 9, 1907. I. S. WITMAN.

STEEL TIE AND RAIL FASTENING.

APPLICATION FILED SEPTA. 1906.

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PATENTED JULY 9,-1907.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 27.1906.

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STEEL TIE AND RAIL-FASTENING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 9, 1907.

Application file l September 27,1906. Serial No. 336,510.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, Isaac S. WITMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elizabethtown, in the county of Lancaster, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Steel Ties and Rail-Fastenings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to metallic railway ties and means for fastening rails thereto.

It is the object of the invention to provide a simple and at the same time an efficient metallic tie, and means for fastening the rails to the tie which shall be ready of application and adjustment, and which when in position, will hold the rail securely in place, the said fastening means being readily detached or released when it is desired to make repairs or replace the old rail with a new The invention is clearly portrayed in the annexed drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in view of which the said invention will first be described with respect to its construction and mode of operation, and then be pointed out in the subjoined claims.

Of the said drawings :Figure l is a plan. Fig. 2 is a view looking toward one side of the tie. Fig. 3 is an opposite side view. Fig. 4 is a view looking on one end of the tie and a side of the rail. Fig. 5 is a sectional view on a plane runninglongitudinally oi the tie. Fig. 6 is a top plan view of a switch formed with the present fasteners and showing a frog brace and tie plate.

Similar numerals of reference designate similar parts or features, as the case may be wherever they occur.

In the drawings 10 designates the railway tie and 11 the railway rail secured thereon. The tie is made somewhat in the form of an ordinary railway rail, being provided with a flanged base 12, a web 13, and a flat top 14. These parts or features may be of any size or dimensions to suit circumstances, but, for mere example, in ordinary cases the tie may be five inches wide on top, with a flanged base eight inches in width and a web four inches deep.

The rails 11 are laid upon and cross the ties 10 at the usual distance from the ends of the latter, and on the outside of the rail a clip 15 is arranged to hold the rail from spreading on the tie. The said clip is formed with a base 16 resting on the tie outside of the base of the rail,

and having downwardly extending dogs 17 at its outer' edge which extend into holes 18 formed in the top of the tie. At its inner end the clip 15 extends against the side of the base of the rail, as at 17 over the inclined flange of the latter as at 20 and up against the under side of the ball, as at 21. This effectually sustains the rail against outward movement or spreading on the tie.

On the inside of the rail the flanged base of the latter is engaged by the inner end 22 of a clip 23, the outer portion 24, of which rests upon the top of the tie and has its sides 25 bent around and under the flanged sides of the top so that it may be moved longitudinally on the tie without becoming disengaged therefrom.

With the rail pressed firmly against the outside clip 15 the inside clip 23 is moved against the inside flange of the base, the inner end 22 of said clip overlapping said flange, when the wedge 26 is driven or forced under the end 22 to tighten the said end on the flanged base, to keep the base of the rail firmly down on the tie. The outer'end 27 of the wedge 26 which is made relatively thin is turned over and lapped on the end 22 of the clip 23, to assist in binding the parts together.

A headed bolt, 28 is passed through the web of the tie below the rail, and has a nut 29, turned on its pro jecting screw-threaded end 30 and a binding wire, or

rod 31 of steel or other metal is curled about the screwthreaded end 30 of the bolt 28 carried around over the top of the tie and over the outer portion 24 of the clip 23, and then passed down on the opposite side of the tie, under the rail and about the bolt inside of its head, thence over the base 15 on top of the tie and down to the screw-threaded end of the bolt where the still free end is bent about the bolt and the nut 29 is turned home securing the ends oi the binding wire 31 in place.

By the means and manner of use described a rail will be secured to its tie so as to be held quite as firmly in position as though it were an integral part of the tie, and the latter becomes eflicient and serviceable to a maximum degree.

In Fig. 6 there is shown a top plan view of a switch formed with the present fasteners, in which the switch tieA. moves upon a plate B. secured to one of the ties by means of integral fingers O. bent to engage under the top 8 of the tie. The frog D. of the switch rests upon a tie which has a frog brace E. disposed thereupon, this brace consisting of a plate located between the rails of the frog and resting there against having integral fingers F. bent beneath the top flange oi the tie.

What is claimed, is:

1. As a means for preventing a rail, from spreading" on a tie, the combination, with the rail and tie the latter being provided with holes formed in its upper side, of a clip provided with dogs at its outer end to enter the holes in the tie, and constructed at its inner end to engage the flanged base of the rail and bear at its upper inner end against the ball of, said rail and wires connected with the tie to bind the clips down on the rails.

2. The combination with a metallic railway-rail tie and the rail, the said tie having a laterally flanged top, of a clip extending at its inner end on the flanged base of the rail, its outer end resting on the top of the tie, and having its outer edges bent over and under the edges of the lateral flanges of the tie to adapt the clip to be moved into and out of engagement with the flange of the rail and wires connected with the tie to bind the clips down on the rails.

8. The combination with a railway rail tie and the rail, of a clip connected with the tie and extended upon the flanged base of the rail, and 21 wedge forced between the clip and flange of the rail,- snid wedge having an extended end bent over upon the outer face of the clip after the wedge is driven home,

4. The combination with a railway rail tie and the rail, clips connected with the tie to secure the rail thereto, a. headed bolt having a screw-threaded end and a nut adapted to be turned" thereon, said bdit being passed 10 through the tie below the rail and a binding wire connected with said bolt and passed Over the tie at both sides of the rail and engaging the said clips to bind them on the tie, and the nut on the bolt being turned up against the ends of the binding wire.

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