US893327A - Railway cross-tie. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED JULY 14, 1908.

J. B. KENNEY. RAILWAYUROSS TIE. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 26, 1907.

Ill I ll'll WITNESSES:

JOSEPH B. KENNEY, OF SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.

RAILWAY GROSS-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 26, 1907. Serial No. 408,025.

Patented July 14, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH B. KENNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sacramento, in the county of Sacramento and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Railway Cross-Ties, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in cross-ties for supporting the rails of railways.

It consists in the employment of inclosing clamping plates whereby the life of the tie is preserved, and in details of construction which will be more fully explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is an end view.

The increasing weight of locomotives and trains upon railways acts to crush and destroy the supporting wooden ties in a short time; and it is the object of my invention to provide a means for reinforcing the ties, and prevent such destruction.

The ties A are of any usual shape and size.

2 is an angle-plate having upturned flanges as shown, thus forming a shallow, channelplate. The bottom of the tie is fitted snugly into this channel-plate, and is bolted or otherwise secured from end to end.

Upon the top of the tie are fitted corre sponding channel-plates 3. These plates extend from the end of the tie to a point near the center where they cease, leaving a portion of the tie uncovered. The object of this is to prevent short-circuiting of electric currents which are passed through the rails where block si nal systems are used, especially in the rai road yards; but this insulation may also take place at any point or points along the line of the road. These top plates have holes punched in them at a suitable distance apart as shown at 4; to receive the spikes by which the rails 5 are secured to the ties. Two of these holes may be employed to secure a rail to each tie and passing through the plates into the wooden interior of the tie, will be suflicient for the purpose.

With constant use and wear, the head of a rail becomes eventually worn on the inside so that there is too much side lay between the flanges of the wheels. It is then desirable to set the rails a little nearer together so as to maintain the proper gage and distance between them, and to com ensate for the wear of the inner flanges o the rails. In order to effect this I form a second set of holes 6. These holes are punched through the late a little nearer to .the center of the tie t an the holes 4, so that when the spikes have been drawn the rails may be set nearer together to compensate for the wear of the inner flanges, and the spikes being driven through the new holes Wlll lock the rails in place and give them an extension of service.

The constant pounding of the rails upon ordinary wooden ties eventually cuts channels and allows the rails to sink into the channels to such an extent that otherewise good ties must be thrown out and new ones substituted. By my construction I am enabled to economize and use these worn ties as follows: Two ties may be cut ofl at such points that the worn places may be shifted away from the line of the rails, and the two ties thus cut may be abutted at an intermediate point, and then bolted to the metal inclosing plates herein described, which will hold them firmly, and ractically form a new tie, and when thus indlosed these whole ties thus renewed will last an indefinite time. The sunken portions of the ties being moved out of the line of the rails, the plates will not be indented or distorted as they would otherwise be if the old ties were used in their damaged condition.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is Wooden railway ties having troughshaped plates of substantially the ength of a tie, secured to the bottom thereof, similar plates secured to the top of the tie, said lates having dia onally disposed boltoles for securing ra' way rails to the tie, and another set of bolt-holes disposed nearer to the center line of the tie whereby the rails may be adjusted to com ensate for wear.

In testimony whereof l have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH B. KENNEY.

Witnesses:

DAVID REESE, GEO. B. GRAY.

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