US933061A - Rail-joint. - Google Patents

Description

c. P. 0003mm; 0.1". LONG.

RAIL JOINT. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 17, 1908.

Patented Sept. 7, 1909.

I'll! CHARLES F.

GOCHRAN AND CHARLES F. LONG, OF VANDERGRIFT,' PENNSYLVANIA.

RAIL-JOINT.

Application filed August 1'5, 1908.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. '7, 1909.

Serial No. 448,880.

T all whom it may concern.

3e it known that we, CHARLES F. 00011- 1:.\x and CHARLES 1*. Lone, citizens of the United States, residing at Vandergrift, in the county of W estmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in rail joints and more particularly to an improved fish-plate which will insure a smooth and even passage of the car wheels over the meeting ends of the rails.

The object of the invention is to provide a joint of this character by means of which the rails will be held in perfect alinement and which will prevent the car wheels from dropping off of one rail onto the other and thereby injuring the rails,. their fastening bolts and the cross ties.

Xith the above and other objects in view, the invention consists of the novel features of construction and the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved rail joint; Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the sameyFig. 3 is a vertical transverse section; and Fig. at is a detail perspective of the improved fish-plate looking toward the inner side of the same.

In the drawings 1 and 2 denote the meeting ends of two ordinary track rails, 3 denotes an ordinary fish-plate upon the inside of the rails. l denotes the improved fishplate upon the outside of the rails and 5 denotes transverse fastening bolts passing through the fish-plates and the web portions of the rails.

The improved fish-plate or joint-plate l has an upright body portion (5 adapted to enter between the base flanges and the heads of the rails 1, 2 and to fit against the web portions, as shown more clearly in Fig. 3. The inner face of the upright body portion 6 of the fish-plate l is formed with a longitudinally extending groove or channel 7 so that said inner face has only two points of contact 8. 9 with the web portions of the rails. The outer face 10 of said body portion 6 is flat and vertical and at its bottom flange 11 formed upon the bottom of the body 6 and adapted to extend over the base flanges of the track rails. Said base flange of the fish-plate 41- is formed in its outer edge with two or more notches 12 to receive the usual spikes which fasten the rails to the cross ties. Transverse openings 13 are formed at intervals in the body portion 6 for the reception of the bolts The pert-ion of the body 6 of the improved fishplate which is disposed outside of the heads of the track rails is extended upwardly to provide a vertically projecting rectangular flange let which lies in contact with the side faces of the heads of the rails and which has its flat upper edges disposed in the horizontal plane of the top or tread surfaces of the rail heads. By providing the flange or extension 14 on the fish-plate and having its upper surface flush with the tread surfaces of the rails the car wheels will engage and ride over said edge 15 and in passing over the meeting extremities of the rails will not drop from one to the other in the event that the rails are not in perfect longitudinal alinement. This construction will therefore effectively prevent injury to the rails, the breaking of the fastening bolts and the cutting of the cross ties beneath the joint, which occurs so frequently where the ordinary rail joints are used.

The rails and fish-plates are effectively secured to the usual wooden cross ties 16 by spikes 19 driven through the notches 12 in the fish-plates and into said ties. To further fasten the fislrplates to the rails and strengthen the joint, a transverse locking plate 20 is arranged upon said parts at the meeting ends of the rails and midway between two of the ties 16 which support the joint. This locking plate extends transversely beneath the base of the rails at their meeting ends and the lower edges of the two fish-plates and has its ends 21 bent upwardly and around the bottom edges or flanges of the fish-plates, as shown more clearly in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed is:

The herein described rail joint comprising, in combination, two cross ties, the meeting ends of two track rails arranged upon the ties with their abutting ends between the latter, fish-plates on the inner and outer portion merges into the downwardly and l sides of the meeting ends of the rails and exout-wardly inclined outer face of a basel tending over the ties, each of said fish-plates having a channeled inner face disposed opposite the web of the rails and portions to engage the head and base flanges of said rails, said fish-plates having their bottom edges flush with the bottom faces of the base flanges of the rails and notched to receive spikes, the fish-plate upon the outer side of the rail having an upwardly projecting flange arranged in contact with the outer side faces of the head portions of the rails and provided with a flat upper edge disposed in the horizontal plane of the tread surfaces of the rails, transverse bolts passed through the fishplates and the Webs of the rails, spikes arranged in the notches in the lower edges of the fish-plates and driven into the ties and a transverse locking plate arranged in contact with the base flanges 01 the rails at their meeting ends and the bottom edges of the fish-plates, the ends of said locking plate being bent around the lower portions or flanges of the fish-plates.

in testnnony whereof We hereunto aflix our signatures in the presence of two W1t-

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