US930941A - Anti-rail-spreader. - Google Patents

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UNlTED STATES PATENT 0mm LAURANCE DENSON, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

.ANTI-RAIL-SPREADE E.

No. 930,941..v

Specification or Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 10, 1909.

Application fiIedDecember 16, 1908. Serial No. 87,888...

To all whom 'itmay Be it known that I,Jnssn lin'onancn Dan SQN, a citizen ofithe United :States, residin at St! Louis, State of Missouri, have invente new and useful rovement's-in 'inti-Rail Spreaders, otwhic the 'follewinggisa specificationj I 4 1 This invention is an im roved anti rail spreader-foruse on railroa s to prevent the rails from spreading and which "consists in a tie composed ofa pair of members having means at theirouterends to engage the rails and having wedge shoulders at their innerends, in combination with a tie device having wedge 1 shoulders at its sides to engage those of the said sections to lock-said sections together and draw them toward each. other and further provided with a lip or stop F at it s larger end to be. turned down when said tie is in place and bear against one side of said sections to. revent casual disengagementof said tie as ereinafter described and claimed.

In the accom anying drawings:Fig1ire -1 is a topplan' a ortion of a railway pro' vided with anti rai s readers constructed in accordance with my nvention; Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view on a larger scale},

Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of one of the anti rail .spreaders showing the 'parts thereof disconnected.

My im roved anti rail spreader comprises a pair of ars or sections '1, 2,-whichar'e du; hcates of 8&Cll0th6lyfilld036h of? which is t provided at. its outer-end with a broadened ead portion 3 and at itsinner-end with :a wedge shoulder or'flange 4, said wedge shou'l' ders or flanges being here shown asformed by turning up and bending over the inner end, portions of said sections or bars. Eachhead portion 3 is formed with an;upt-urned-flange 5 to bear against the outer side o1 one of the rails and is further formed-with lip portion's 6 which after the outer flanges 5 are ap lied to the rails are bent over the. inner ase flanges of thefrails' and'against' ,the innersides of the webs thereof, as indicated inv Fig. 2, it being observed that thehealdportions 3 are wider than the bars .and thatthe said lips 6 as well as the flanges 5 are formed integral with said head portions;-

In orderto lock he sections or bars l, '2, together, end for end, I provide .a shaped clip 7; which is'form'ed on asunder .sai'd wedge clip maybe readily removed from -side'with inwardly extending flangesS .to engage and underlie the wedge flanges 4 ofthe .bars or sections 1., 2, the sides of. the. said'clip ;conv.er'ging in'one direction so-that the said clip-also constitutes a'wedge which in opactiontwith the wedge flanges-4 of. the bars or sections 1 ,'2,'serves to firmly lock said bars or sections 1, 2 together and r to draw them ;-towa'rd each other whenah-elip is forced or driven into place-., ,Themlipis provided at its large'r'end and integrally'with its 'uplper ortion Wltllfllli j9 wliicl wh en the'clip as een thus placedllon the neeting ends of the 'bars l, 2,;is-zbentdownwardso as-to bear against onelsidebf-sdid bars asindicated in f1-,';"said lip thus fserving .to effectually prevent the said cllglbm becoming casually dislodged. It tunderstood, however, that by first; bending tup theisaid lip Qthe' of-bars having means at their outer ends to engage the railsand provided-at their inner ends with wedge flanges, in combination with awedge clip to coact with said wedge flanges andplocksaid bars together at their inner ends.

2. An anti rail spreader comprising a pair of bars having means at their outer ends to engagethe rails and provided at their inner ends with wedge flanges, in combination with a wedge clip to coact with said wedge flanges and-lock said bars together at their inner ends, said wedge clip being rovided with locking means to engage said ars and prei vent casual dislodgment fof: said wedge clip. g3; anti rail spreader comprising a pair of barsformed at their'i'nner ends with wedge flanges and at .theirouter ends with broadened head portions, said headjportion's hav- '.ing their outer ends upwardly and inwardly turned to form flanges to bear against the In testimony whereof I affix my signature outer sides of the I'ELllS and formed on their '111 presence of two Witnesses.

inner sides with lip flanges to be bent against the inner sides of the rails, in combination JESSE LAURANCE D E 5 with a Wedge clip to engage and coact with Witnesses:

the wedge flanges of said bars to lock the lat F. E. FICKERSON,

ter together. E. PAFFRATH.

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