US967176A - Railway-tie. - Google Patents

Description

H. J. BOWLING.

RAILWAY TIE.

MPLIGATID! run In. 15, 190:.

Patented Aug. 16, 1910.

1 v dilemma MURT J. DOWLING, OI STEWARTS'J'ILLE. L'EW JERSEY.

RAILWAY-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 16. 1910.

Application filed November 35, 1909. Serial Np. 523,179.

To "/1 whom it may concern.

tie it human that l. .\lt'n'r J. Dowuxu. a citizen of the liuited States, residing at Stewartnille, in the county of 'arren and State of New Jersey. have-invented a new and useful liililWihV-ddt'. of which the folconstruction and combinations of parts hereina t't er more fully described and pointed out in the claim.

in the accompanying drawings the pre-' ferred shown.

in said drawings. Figure l i a pet-spew tive view of a portion of a tie embodying the present improvement. the rail being shown se ured in position upon the end portion thereof. Fig. 2 is a plan view of one end portion of a tie. the rail fastening devices being removed. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the tie and showing. in elevation, one set of bolts used in (OllHtCliUIl with the fastening devices. Fig. 4 is a central vertical transverse section through the tie. Fig. is a detail view of one of the securing bolts. Fig. (3 is a perspective view of a modified form of rail chair.

ei'erriug to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates an I-beatn embedded within a concrete body 2 which preferably increases in width toward the bottom thereof, the tip face of the beam being flush with the corresponding face of the body and the longitudinal corners of said body being preferably cut-away or beveled as shown at. 3. ()ppositely dis )OSCd aline ing transversely extending slots 4 are formed within the to of the beam 1 adjacent each end of the tie, these slots registering with corgesponding grooves 5 formed within the concrete body thereunder, the grooves however being of greater width than the slots. Diagonally disposed slots 6 are t'ornn-d within the top portion of the I- beam at points between the slots 4 and the form of the invention has been adjoining ends of the tie, these slots 6 being disposed above corresponding grooves 7 formed in the concrete body and which are of greater width than the shits 6. The arrangement f slots has been clearly indicated in Fig. 2.

depression 8 is formed in each side of the tie body 2 at the center thereof and aslot or incision 9 extends into the tie bod at its center. said slot projecting into the sides and bottom of said body and close to the beam 1 there being preferably a thin shell 5 of concrete constituting the inner walls of the slot and serving to protect the adjoining portions of the I-beani from the action of moisture and air.

The rail fastening means used in connection nith this tie consists of a base plate or chair to seated on a cushion It) of a suitable fibrous material and having a longitudinally extending tlange 11 so shaped as to extend over and firmly engage one of the base flanges of a rail A. Openings 12 are formed in this plate near each end thereof, one set of openings being designed to receive lts t earl! of whi h has a longitudinally extending rib l-l adjacent the head 15 thereof. one end of the said bolt being threaded to receive a clamping nut 16 as shown in Fig. 5. The head 15 of the bolt is insertible into the groove i under one of the slots 6 and the shank and rib of the bolt are disposed to rest within the slot (5, the rib serving to hold the bolt against rotation. The threaded portion of the bolt extends through the base plate and a nut 16 serves to clamp said piate upon the top of the tie. One of these bolts is insertiblc into each of the gnomes T and 5. those oi the bolts which proje t through the slots 4 being designed not only to extend through the base plate It) but also to extend through a holding plate 17 which is designed to rest upon the base plate and which has a flange 18 so shaped and lo -ated as to extend over and firmly engage one of the base flanges of the rail A.

From the foregoing description, when read in connection with the accompanying drawings. it is believed that the manner of securing-rails to the tie will be clearly understood.

The base plates 10 are placed upon the tie bod after the bolts 13 have been slid'into the grooves 5 and 7 and the slots 4 and 6 and the said bolts are extended through the liase plate, two of them being secured thereto by means of nuts so as to clamp the plates upon the tie while the other two are extended through the holding plate 17 and then secured. The flanges of the rail A will thus be tightly held by the flanges 11 and 18 of the two plates as shown in F 2g. 1. When the tie is placed within the. roadbed it is i reveuted from creeping longitudinally hecause portions of the material constituting the roadbed project into the recesses 8. Moreover in iew of the fact that the slots 9 are extended into the middle portion of the tie body, said ti is capable of being flexed to a certain extent, this flexing bein sufficient to give the desired resiliency.

t will be seen that the entire tie is very simple and durable in construction and that the rail fastening can be readily applied thereto and will securely hold the rails in position.

Vhere a fastener such as herein described is located at a rail joint, the flange 19 on the base plate 520 is ('jpreterably provided with a web 21 designe to engage the fish plate,

- fit. trated in Fig. 6. The holding platecan be there usually being a notch in the base portion of the same into which this web may T his form of base plate hasbeen illusprovided with a similar Web.

It is of course .to be understood that various changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of the parts without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

What is claimed is A railway tie including a plastic body and a metallic reinforce extending longi tudinally therein and ha ing an exposed upper face, there being,recesses within opposite faces of the body and a. slot extending into the body from said recesses and close to the reinforce.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing

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