US878692A

US878692A - Rail-joint.

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Publication number: US878692A
Application number: US20935504A
Authority: US
Inventors: Joseph Urbanek
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1904-05-23
Filing date: 1904-05-23
Publication date: 1908-02-11
Anticipated expiration: 1925-02-11

Description

No. 878,692. PATENTED FEB. 11,1908; JLURBANBK.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED y; 23, 1904.

JOSEPH URBANEK, OF SQHTlYLER, NEBRASKA.

RAILJ'OINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Pategted Feb. 11, 1908.

Application filed May 23 1904- Serial No. 209.355.

To alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH URBANEK, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Schuyler, in the county of Colfax and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Rail-Joint, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates generally to rail joints and. more particularly to one which has'for its object to provide a safe and ei'licient connection between the meeting ends of railroad rails and which will, at the same time avoid the. jar incidental to the passage of the wheel over the joints now in common use. i V

- Another object of the'invention is to provide a rail joint which will provide an unbroken tread without weakening the rails or the means for fastening the meeting ends together.

l/Vith these objects in view my invention consists essentially in tapering the treadof the meeting ends of the rails by cutting the head of the rails away at each side so that when the said rails are arranged end to end a V-shaped recess will be arranged at ope posite sides of the joint and into which iit the triangular shaped project-ions carried by the fish plates connecting the meeting ends of the rails, said triangular shapediiprojev tions fitting snugly in the VTshaped recesses and completing the tread of the rail at the joint.

The invention consists also in certain details hereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification of a complete rail joint constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a View showing in perspective the meeting ends of. the rails. Fig. is a View showing in perspective the fish plates employed for uniting the rails. Fig. 4 is a detail perspee tive view of" the base plate or chair.

Referring to the drawings A indicate the meeting ends of two ordinary railroad rails, the head of the, rail being cutaway obliquely upon the opposite sides as most clez'u'ly shown at A so that when the rails are arranged end to end as shown in Fig. l a

wide V-shaped' recess A is produced upon,

the opposite sides of the head of the rail. lt will be noted that the base and web ol the rail are not reduced in any mannorwhat- Figure 1. 1s a perspective view' ever. The ends of the rails rest upon the base plate or chair B which is formed with upwardly and inwardly projecting edges VB notched at B upon the outer side of the angle to receive the ordinary securing spikes.

C C indicate the 'lish plates arranged upon the op )osite sides of the meeting ends of the rails t e lower outer edges (j of said fish plates contacting withthe upwardly and in wardly extending edges B of the base plate ,or chair B. Each 'lish plate 0 has an upward extension 1)- arranged cent-rally of the upper edge said extension I) being triangular in iorizontal crosssection and of a size and shape to fit snugly in the wide V-shaped re eess A". Thus 1t will be seen that when the parts are assembled the iish plates combine the meeting ends of the rails the same as usual and the triangular shaped extensions I fit into the recesses produced upon the opposite sides of the joint and thereby span the joint between the meeting ends of the rails. By having the ends of thc'rail cut away upon the-opposite sides as .shown and having'the extensions triangular in shape the wheel of the car will rollupon this extension across the joint without any jar whatever whereas it the ends of the rail were cut away on an angular line and the extensions D made with square ends there would be a certain amount of jar incidental to the wheel rolling u on the sai'dextensions.

It will be further noticed that along its lower edge the fish plate C is angled down- .wardly, as at C", and the edge beveled, and

this portion 0 fits between the base of the rail A and the flange B of the chair, the lower, inner ortion of the said llange being out or angle to fit snugly the beveled edge of'the angled portion ot' the iish plate, as is shown at B.

llaving thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new and desire to securoby 1 Letters Patent, is

in a rail joint, the combination with a base-plate having upwardly and inwardly projecting edges provided with notches, of rails arranged on said plate having their heads cut away obliquely upon both sides at their meeting ends l'ormiug a V-shaped recess upon opposite sides ol'lhe head of the rail, said base plate being of a greater width than the base of the rails, fish-plates arranged uponopposile sides of the meeting ends of the rails, the lower outer ends being 'bent downwardly and tlifedges beveled said fisb-blates being secured together by.

adapted to fit between the base of'themils bolts. t and the flanges of the plate, and-an upwardly I JOSEPH R A extendmg extension arrangedeen'tmlly on 5 the upper edge'of the fish-plates,- triangular Witfiesf ses in horizontal cross-section and of a size and EDW. WZERZAR, V shape to fit snugly in the V-shaped recesses, GERALD EHEBNBERQEIL.