US875996A - Portable derailer. - Google Patents

Description

No. 875,996. PATENTED JAN. 7, 1908.

S. W. HAYES.

PORTABLE DBRAILER. APPLIOATION FILED 001.218.1906.

UNrrno- STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PORTABLE DERAILER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 7, 1908.

Application filed October 18y1906l Serial N0. 339,438-

use may be required, and the invention 0011- l sists in the provision of an improved device for this purpose which is capable of secure attachment to the roadbed, irrespective of the size of the rail, and which also involves other advantages and improvements as will be hereinafter fully explained and more particularly pointed out in the accompanying claims.

The drawin s which form a part of this specification ilustrate a preferred form of the embodiment of my invention, but it will be understood that the invention is by no means limited to the style and construction of the device illustrated.

Referring to the said drawings, Figure 1 is an end elevation of the portable derail secured in position on the rail, the latter being shown in section; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the' same view ed from the outside of the track; Fig. 3 a similar View from the inside of the track; and Fig. 4 is a top plan.

'lhe device consists of,a wheel-derailing member, represented generally b reference numeral 1, which is provided with the usual wheel-raising incline 2 and the oblique flange groove 3. The said member is also provided with two side members or flanges 4 and 5 which extend downwardly on opposite sides of the rail and preferably to a point which is be low the bottom of the base flange thereof. In this position the said side flanges are adapted 45 to have an endwise bearing upon the tie 6,

.as shown in Fig. 2, which sustains the longitudinal pressure against the derail and prevents its slipping along the rail when 011- countered by a moving wheel. 'lhe SIHH 5 'betw'een the side flanges 4'and 5 is termed herein a trough-shaped recess adapted to fit over the rail, and the interior surfaces o! the said flanges are referred to as the si es of the said recess. It will be observed from the drawings that the said sides flare outwardly or downwardly so that the head of the rail 5 fits rather snugly in the apex of the recess i while the margins of the base flange are sufliciently close to the side walls of the recess to form a support for the derail, which serves to maintain it, or at least to aid in maintaining it, in its proper upright position upon the rail. By reason of the flare or inverted V-shape of the recess, moreover, it is possible to place the derail over rails of widely diil'eringsize with the same efl'ect, as is clearly indicated by the dotted lines in 1 Fig. 1. Filling flanges 7 may be formed on the walls of the recess to increase the accuracy of the lit, especially with small rails. and as also shown by Fig. 1. 'i he means for fastening the derail thus formed, to the rail, may be applied in various manners, but the present invention contemplates broadly a fastening means which is adjustable so as to secure the device with equal security to rails of different size. As shown herein this means consists of a removable locking bar 8 adapted to be inserted under the rail, and be connected with the side members on opposite sides of said rail, so that when the device is secured in position, it will completely encircle the rail.

The mode of attachment of the lockingdevice to the side members may be varied from the construction illustrated in the drawings, but as shown therein it comprises a number of apertures )rovided in each of said side members at res. ively difl'ereut or graded heights and the locaing bar is adapted to be inserted into the proper aperture according to the vertical dimension of the rail. I iind that it is preferable to fasten the derail to the rail as securely as possible, and I therefore form the locking-bar 8 in the shape of a ,wedge which can be driven into the apertures so as thereby to bind the de rail firmly to the rail. The wedge bars when driven home are secured in place by means of a flexible connection, such as the chain 9, which is secured to eyebolt-s 10 in the side flanges 4 and passes through a hole in the end of the wedge. A pin 11 is inserted padlock applied to the pin secures the chain from removal. As shown herein, the fastening means are in duplicate, that is to say, two wedge bars are provided at each end of the derail and the chain passes through both wed es, but it will be understood that the num er of fastening means is immaterial to the principle of my invention.

through the chain next to the wedge and a derailed wheel leaves the der il block.

3% V erase In addition to the foregoing elements, the derail is preferably, though not necessarily, provided with means for protecting the secur mg means from injury by the members of the derailed vehicles. This means consists of a laterally projecting shell 12 formed as a deflector-plate inunediately above the fastening meansand below the point where the By means of this plate, the derailed wheels, instead of falling upon the projecting end of the wedge, as would otherwise be the case, are. guided or deflected to one sidev and fall clear of thederail.

The derail is preferably formed of one in tefral'piece and the downwardly extending si e flanges are braced by angle flanges formed in the angle between said side aflanges and the derail-block. Likewise, the

deflector plate is similarly supported and re inforced by vertical. angle flanges between it and its side flange 4.

"Having described my invention, what I claimland desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is 1. A'portable derail, consisting of a wheelderailing-block adapted to be independently supported upon the rail, and a part carried by said ;wheelderailingblock extended downwardly to oint below the base flange of the rail and a apted to engage the tie.

2. A portable derail consisting of ,a wheelderailing block formed with an inverted trough-shape recess on its under side adapted to fit over the rail, the sides of the said recess beingadapted to engage the base flange of the rail. I

3' In a portablesderail, a wheel derailing block provided with an oblique wheehflange groove, and formed with an inverted troughshaped recess adaoted t-o fit down overthe rail, the sides of said recess being flared and extended downwardly in position tohave supporting bearing against the base flange of the rail. Q

a. A portable derail comprising a wheelderailing block and fastening means therefor, said parts being adapted to completely encircle the rails.

5. A portable derail deraihng block pro rded extending side'- flanges and vertical angle.

flanges disposed between said block and the side flanges.

5. A portable derail having means for securing it to the ran, in combination with a deflector plate above said means and adapted to protect thesame from injury by the derailed member.

'7. A portable derail com rising a wheelderailing block provided with a downwardly prising a wheelextending side flange, mean-s associated with said flange for securing the derail to the rail and a shelf on said side flange projecting over saidsec-uring means and adapted to protect the same 8. A portable derail comprising a wheel-- derailing block provided. with a downwa y extending side flange, a laterally projecting shell on said flange and angle flanges be tween said shelf and the side flange.

9. A portable derail having downwardly extending side members adapted to be disposed on opposite sides of the rail and re movable fastening means adapted to be inserted beneath the rail and to connect with said side flanges. i

10. A portable derail having downwardly extending side members reaching below the base flange of the rail and on opposite sides thereof, in combination with fastening means adapted to bei connected with said members below the said base flange.

11. A portable derail having a side member adapted to extend below thebase-flange wardly extending side flanges adapted to reach below the base flange of the rail on each side thereof, the said flanges being provided with apertures, in combination with a wedge bar adapted to be inserted beneath the rail into said apertures and means in retaining said bar in such position. J 14. A ortable derail having apertnred side members adapted to be disposed on oposite sides of the rail, a wedge adapted to be inserted into said apertures and a flexible means adapted to be rastened to said wedge and to the derail to retain the former in position. I

15. A portable derail having side'inembers adapted'to be disposed on ooposite sides of the rail, the said members eing provided with a ertnres at diiierent heights therein, in com ination with locking means adapted to be passed under the rail and be inserted in any of said apertures.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to the specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

STANLEY w. earns

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