US906402A

US906402A - Rail-fastening device.

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Publication number: US906402A
Application number: US41559108A
Authority: US
Inventors: Edward Thimothy Ford; Frank Ford Wassam
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1908-02-12
Filing date: 1908-02-12
Publication date: 1908-12-08
Anticipated expiration: 1925-12-08

Description

E. T. FORD & P. F. WASSAM.

RAIL FASTENING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 12, 1908 1 Patented Dec. 8, 1908.

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EDWARD THIMOTHY FORD AND FRANK FORD WASSAM, OF DUNKIRK, INDIANA.

v RAIL-FASTENING DEVICE.

Patented Dec. 8, 1908.

Serial No. 415,591.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD T. FORD and FRANK F. WASSAM, citizens of the United States, residing at Dunkirk, in the county of Jay and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail- Fastening Devices; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to Which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in fastenings for railway rails, and comprises various details of construction, combinations and arrangements of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and then specifically defined in the appended claims.

We illustrate our invention in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the fastening as applied to rails and ties. Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views, and Fig. 5 is a detail view of a modification showing the plates for clamping the flan es of the rails, extending only preferably t e width of the ties.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates ties, preferably of metal, and are reinforced by suitable ribs and have chambered portions B through the walls of which are formed the transverse slots CC which register.

E designates rails of a railway which rest upon the upper fiat top of the ties over said chambered portion.

FF designate fish plates or splice bars, each extending over two ties, and each of which bars having one or more projections extending beneath the bottom of the rail, and each projection being provided with an integral finger H having a threaded end D adapted to receive a nut J. Said finger is designed to pass through one of the slots C and the laterally projecting portion I of the fish plate is adapted to rest upon shoulders A formed in the upper surface of the ties. Each fish plate has the integral fingers positioned in different directions upon opposite sides of the rails and, after the fish plates have been adjusted in place, bolts N are passed through registering apertures therein and the webs of the rails to be fastened together.

From the foregoing, it will be noted that, by the provision of a fastening device as shown and described, a simple and efficient means is afforded for securely holding the rails rigidly upon the ties and afiording mechanism whereby the parts are held from becoming loosened.

What we claim to be new is 1. A rail fastening device comprisin in combination with a tie having horizonta apertures formed therein, lates adapted to engage the fiange of the rafi and having integral fingers adapted to be passed through the horizontal apertures in the ties, and means for fastening said fingers, as set forth.

2. A rail fastening device comprisin in combination with a tie having llOIlZOIllDEfi a ertures formed therein, lates adapted to enage the flange of the ras and having integral horizontal apertures in the ties, the ends of said fingers being threaded, and nuts mounted upon the threaded ends of the fingers, as set forth.

3. A rail fastening device comprising, in

combination with a rail having transverse ed at its end, said finger designed to be passed through registering apertures in the tie, and a nut mounted upon. the threaded end of the finger, as set forth.

5. A rail fastening device comprising, in combination with ties having transverse apertures therein, a plate designed to clamp over the flange and the bottom of the rail and gers adapted to be passed through the f having an integral finger With a threaded end, our signatures in the presence of two Wit said finger designed to be passed through the nesses.

transverse aperture of the tie, a nut fitted to r the threaded end of the finger, said plate having a shoulder upon its outer face adapted to rest upon a transverse shoulder upon the up- Witnesses:

per surface of the tie, as set forth. A. C. ENGLE,

In testimony whereof We hereunto affix L. H. BROTHERTON.