US904205A - Rail-joint. - Google Patents

Description

A. J. HOLMQUIST.

' RAIL JOINT.`

APPLIoATIoN FILEDMAY 1s, 190s @6%9205. Patented Nov.17,1908.

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ALBERT J. EOLMQUST, OF RCKQD, ILLNQES.

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specificaties or nea-sm resem.

Application Bled Hai/16, lf. Serial No. d-Slm.

To all 'whom 'it may concern:

-B'eit'known that I, ALBERT J. Hom/tomar, a citlzen of the United States, residing at Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and 6 .State of Illinois, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvementsin Rail-Joints, of

which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that vtype of joint means for connecting the meeting 'ends of J rails embodying a base plate upon which the rail -ends rest, and suitable securing means whereby the rails are attached to the base plate and to the cross ties by which said base plate is supported.

The object of the .invention is to' increase sfrlilar to Fig. 2 and embodying a modification ofthe invention, and Fig. 4 is a detail ggper'spective of a base plate, partially broken away. v Throughout the 'following detail description and on thevseveral figures of the draw-v ins similar parts are referred toby llike erence characters. Referring particularly to the drawings `anddescribing the general construction of the invention, the numeral l designatesa base plate which is of a suiicient length to span 40. the space-between cross ties, the ends of the "plate being supported upon theties as shown 'clearl inthe drawings. The plate l is made l quite y eavy and rigid and is provided near 'its'longitudinal edge portions with flanges 2, the-formation of which provides alongitudinal recess or seat 3 in the upper side of the plate -1 and located of course between said iianges.' The seat 3 of the plate 1 is deslgned to snugly lreceive the' base portions ol.` the 5b -'ends' of the rails 4, said rails being connected lmeans ofthe ordinary angle bars. The 4portions of the angle bars 5 restfupon 'the base portions oi' the rails Il. and bolts -or similar fastenings 13 are provided to connect the angle bars-With the rail ends in the ons.

ternary manner..` En the preferred' einhodb vertical openings @i mentA of the invention is conte 'ipiafted to use spikes or fastenings 'l' which pass through in theilanges@ ci the base plate i and enter the cross ties. Tie oo heads of the spikes 7 overlap the outer edge portion of the base of each angle bar 5 and the bodies of the spikes passthrongh notches in such edge portions. The angle bars ares so formed that the outermost portion of the base of cach angle bar overlaps the adjacent `flange 2. The provision. of the flanges 3 is not only advantageous in allerdin seat or recess for the rail ends but these anges-arc loc-ated so that they also afford an extended 7U bearing for the spikes or fastcnings 'l passing therethrough, at the outer sides of said spikes.

The spikes are not only employed to secure the base plates l and the angle hars 5 in 75 the manner above described but auxiliary fastenings 9 are en'xployed, the lutter also being spikes passing through openings 9 leading through the base plate l troni the re# cess 3. The spikes 9 cooperate to securely 80 fasten the base plates 1 tothe cross ties and said spikes pass throughnotches in the outer edges of the base iortions of the rail ends.

.The spikes 9 theretore perform a dual function, so to speak, rigidly connecting the base S5 plate l. with the ties securingthe rail ends of the base plate, and the sanne time pre venting any longitudinal movement of the rail ends .in the plate 3. y rlhe heads of the spikes 9 are preferably received in suitable 90 recesses 10 formed in. the inner sides of the base portions of the angle bars 5. The spikes 9 are consequently practically housed by the arrangement ofthe angle bars Vorfpla'tes 5 located above the saine. The enterA sides of 95, the openings through which the spikes 9 pass are substantially in line with the inner sides of the iang'es Zand hence the 'iangcs 2 4orn a irin bearing for the outer sides of the `spikes in driving the saine as well as after l0@ the said fasteningshavo been properly engaged with the base portions of the rail ends in the manner above described. A

A modiiication of 'the invention is presented in Fig. 3 in Whicn the structure is 105' substantially the saine as in Figs. l and 2 ein cept that the auxiliary instellinge 7h consist of spikes cooperating Willi the rail ends, the

Aangle bars, and the'ba'sc plete, in snbstanas the spikes 'l' need in 110 l and 2 coact with to'. .in the tially the sanie- Wa the striictnres in structure illustratedin Fig. 3 it is not necessary to change the construction of the ordi- Y nary angle ,bars or rails because the angle bars are provided with the necessary notches, i

fitted and held together there is no likelihood of rounding of the rails and consequent vibration and rattling incidental to the looseness of the connected parts and the passage of the wheels of thev rolling stock over the rails at the point of junction.

Having thus descrinedthe invention, what is 1claimed as new, is:

In a rail joint, the combination of cross ties, a base plate supported thereon and formed with longitudinal edge flanges projecting upwardly therefrom providing a longitudinal seat therebetween, rail ends hav- @sesos ing the base portions thereof lsnugly received in the seat of the base plate, angle bars at opposite-sides of the rail ends, fastenings passing through the angle bars and railends securing the same together, the base portions of the `angle bars resting upon the' base portions ,of the rail ends and overlapping the longitudinal 'Hanges of'the base. plate, said rail ends being foi-ined with notches in the v edge portions thereof, spikes engaging in the notc es inthe base portions of the rail ends and passing through the base plate, portions of the angle bars having recesses receiving lthe heads of said spikes, and other spikes passing through the flanges of the base plate and engaging over the base por.

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