US885122A - Rail-joint. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED APR. 21, 1908.

- IR. vP. WOLYNBG.

- RA IL JOINT. APPLICATION" FILED JULY15, 1907 w UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROMAN F. WOLYNEC, OF MoKEESPORT, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JAMES KRET, OF HOMESTEAD, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 21, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROMAN F. WoLYNEo, subject of Emperor of Austria, residing at McKeesport, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail- Joints, of which the following is a specification.

.The present invention contemplates certain new and useful improvements in rail joints and aims to provide a novel means for connecting the abutting ends of rails whereby the same are held rigidly in alinement with each other and the jolting of the rolling stock when passing over the joint is very materially reduced.

The object of the invention is to design a durable and inexpensive joint of this character which can be readily applied to the rails or removed therefrom. as may be re quired.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction and the means for effecting-the result, reference is to be had to the following descriptionand accompanying drawings, in which: I

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a rail joint embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view through the joint. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the chair parts. Fig. 5 is a detail view of one ofthe rail ends.-

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followin description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawings the numerals l1 designate the abutting rail ends and it will be observed that the extremities of these rails are cut ofi obliquely and that thebeveled ends 2 thereby produced overlap each other and serve to carry the tread of the wheel over the joint in such a manner as to materially reduce the customary jolting of the rollin stock. These rail ends are received wit in a chair comprising a base plate 3 fitting under the joint and restin upon a pair of adjacent ties. This base p ate 3 is shown as being of greater width than the rails and is provided along one of its lon itudinal edges with an integral wing 4 W ich fits against the base and web of the rails u on one side thereof and is shown as exte'n ing upwardly and abutting against the lower face of the head of the rails. Each of the rails 1 has a longitudinally elongated opening 5 formed in the web portion thereof and the wing 4 carries lateral extensions 6 received .Within the said openings and projecting beyond the same, the projecting portions of the extensions being apertured as indicated at 7. Applied to the opposite side of the joint 1s a detachable wing 8 which also fits over the base and web of the rails and extends upwardly into engagement with the head thereof. A plurality of pairs of notches 9 are formed in the upper edge of the wing 8, one pair of notches being provided for each of the extensions 6 upon the opposite wing and a tongue'being located between the adjacent notches of each pair for engagement with the apertures 7 in the extensions 6. The lower ortion of the detachable wing 8 extends horizontally beyond the base of the rails and is rigidly connected to the base plate 3 by any suitable means such as the bolts 10. It will thus be apparent that when the tongues formed by the notches 9 have been placed in engagement with the apertures 7 in the extensions 6 and the detachable wing 8 ri idly bolted to thebase plate 3 a secure inter ocking connection is produced between'the rail ends and the opposite win s of the chair whereby the former are rigid y held in alinement with each other but are permitted to have the limited longitudinal play required by the expansion and contraction of the rails. If found desirable the lower face of the base plate 3 may be formed with a longitudinally disposed stiffening rib 11 which serves to prevent any sagging of the joint between the adjacent ties. Attention is directed to the fact that with this construction it is not required to pass any bolts or similar fastening members through the rails and that a secure interlocking connection is produced between the extensions 6 of the wing 4 and the tongues formed in the upper edge of the wing 8 w ich can not be broken until the bolts 10 have been removed.

Having thus described the invention, what being provided with lateral extensions received Within the before mentioned openings l the perforation in the corresponding exten- 719 in the rail ends and projecting upon the opl sion.

posite side of the rail, the projecting ends of In testimony whereof I al'liX my signature Wing applied to the opposite sides of the the extensions being perforated, and a second in presence of two Witnesses.

' T 7' 7 1 joint, the upper edge of the second Wing be- ROMAA 0L1 ing provided With a pair of notches for each Witnesses: of the lateral extensions, each pair of the FRANK ONDERKO, notches forming a tongue designed to engage ELIAS GLOWA.

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