US904944A - Railway cross-tie. - Google Patents

Description

F. N. & H. A. DRANB.

RAILWAY GROSS TIE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1o, 1908.

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ATTOHNEYS- 'UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK N. DRANE AND HUGH A. DRANE, OF CORSICANA, TEXAS.

RAIL'WAY CROSS-TIE.

Specification of Letters atent.

Patented Nov. 24, 1908.

Application mea March 1o, 1908. serial No. 420,191.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK il. Daarin and HUGH A. DnaNn, citizens of the United States, and residents of Corsicana, in thcl county of Navarro and State of Texas, have invented a new and Improved Railway Cross-Tie, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved railway cross tie, which is simple and durable in construction and provided with spaced concrete tie blocks, connected with each other by a metallic cross rod, extending centrally through the lie blocks, and having means for adjusting the tie blocks towards or from each other, to bring rails held on the tie blocks to proper gage and to allow of raising either tie block and maintaining both blocks and their rails in the same plane.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, which will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a longitudinal elevation of the improvement and showing the rails in cross section; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same; Fig. 3 is an enlarged side elevation of one of the reinforced tie blocks, parts being broken out; Fig. 4f is a plan view of the same; Fig. 5 is a cross section of the same, on the line 5 5 of Fig. 3; Fig. 6 is a cross section of a modified form of the improvement; Fig. 7 is a plan view of the same, and Fig. 8 is an enlarged sectional elevation of one of the rail clips, made eccentric and reversible, one side made deep enough to chamber the rail base and the other side made deep enough to chamber the rail base and splice bar at rail joints.

rhe tie blocks A, A are made of concrete and placed suitable distances apart, to support the rails B and B, and the said tie blocks A, A are provided with apertures A2, passing centrally7 through the tie blocks in the direction of their length, to receive a metallic tie rod C, preferably made tubular, and having its ends threaded to receive nuts C abutting against the outer ends of the tie blocks A and A. By the arrangement described the tie blocks A and A can be conveniently adjusted towards or from each other, by sliding the same on the tie rod C, so as to bring the rails B and B to proper gage. Each of the tie blocks A, A is reinforced by the use of metallic bars D, ranging in the direction of the length of the blocks, as plainly indicated in Figs. 3, il and 5.

ln order to fasten each of the rails B and B in position on the corresponding tie block A or A, use is made of outer and inner rail clips E and ll, held in place by bolts F, F, extending through apertures (ir, G formed in the eorresjmnding tie block A. or A, the heads of .the bolts F, F engaging metallic seais ll, AIl embedded in the material ofthe. eorrespomliug tie block A or A. llach of the rail clips is provided with lips EL beveled at the under side lo [.)roperly tit the top of the base of the railV B or B, and the top of the lip lil: is similarly beveled, so as to provide sul'lieieut space for the passage of the splice bar Fr employed for connecting adjacent rails. lhe openings G and G are arranged to permit the convenient insertion of the bolts F and F from below, and the openings Gr and the metallic seats H are elongated in the direction of the length of the corresponding tie blocl A or A, to permit of adjusting the inner bolt F and the inner clip E, to accommodate rails having bases of different width.

As shown in Figs. 6 and 7, the tie block AS is provided with openings G2, G3 and seats H2, H3 for the heads of the outer and inner bolts F and F and in this case the opening G3 is arranged obliquely in the block A3, to allow of adjusting the inner bolt F and its clip F/ to suit rail bases of different width. The metallic seats H2, Hs may be in the form of bars, slotted for the passage of the bolt, and having at their inner ends depending arms H" (see Fig. 6) embedded. in the concrete material of the tie block A3, so as to securely hold the metallic bearings H2 and H3 in position in the tie block. The arms H4 are preferably curved around corresponding reinforcing bars D, as indicated in Fig. 6.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the railway cross tie described is very simple and durable in construction and composed of comparatively few parts, so as to reduce the cost of the tie to a minimum. It will also be noticed that the tie blocks A and A can be readily adjusted towards or from each other, to bring the rails B and B to and hold them at proper gage, and that by means of the longitudinal apertures G and G3, as shown in Figs. d and 7, this means of fastening the rail to the tie blocks readily adjusts or adapts itself to any width of rail base. It may also be noticed that if any part of this tie becomes damaged, as for eX- ample, a tie block, the whole tie does not have to be discarded, but may be restored by merely the renewal of the damaged part. On curves the outer tie block can be readily raised, and in doing so the inner tie block follows the plane of the outer tie block, as the two tie blocks are Connected with each other by the tie rod C. Thus the rails B and B are maintained in the saine plane.

Having thus described our invention, We claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

l. In combination, a railway cross tie and rail fasteners for fastening the rails in place on the said tie, each fastener comprising a. bolt held in the tie, and a reversible rail clip engaged by the said bolt and having a sidewise extending lip tapering at top and bottoni, one side deep enough to lit the rail base and the other side deep enough to fit the rail base and splice bar at rail joints.

2. A railway cross tie, comprising spaced concrete tie blocks having central apertures in the direction of the length of the tie, a tie rod extending through the said apertures and provided at its endswith nuts screwing against the outer ends of the tie blocks to adjust the same toward or'from each other, metallic bolt seats embedded in the said tie blocks, and bolts extending in the said tie blocks and having their heads seated on the said bolt seats, the bolt for the inside rail clip being adjustable in its seat in the direction of the length of the tie, to accommodate rails having bases of different widths.

8. A railway cross tie comprising spaced connected concrete tic blocks, metallic bolt seats embedded in the tie blocks, and bolts extending in the tie blocks, and having their heads seated on the said bolt seats, the bolt for the inside rail clip being adjustable in its seat, in the direction of the length of the tie, to acconnnodate rails having bases of different widths.

ln testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK N. DRANE. HUGH A. DRANE.

lVitnesses W. J. CHENEY, R. N. ELLIOTT.

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