US968049A - Metallic railway-tie. - Google Patents

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P HAGENEY METALLIC RAILWAY TIB.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 1a. 1909. i 968,049, Patented Aug. 23, 1910.

. SSM J mi A PATRICK HAGENEY, OF ASI-ITABULA HARBOR, OHIO.

METALLIC RAILWAY-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Ang. 23, 1910.

Application led August 18, 1909. Serial No. 513,373.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PATRICK HAGENEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ashtabula Harbor, in the county of Ashtabula and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Metallic Railway-Ties, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a metallic railway tie adapted to support and to be easily connected with the rails without the use of bolts, and which, when once laid, is not liable to shift its position.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and pointed out definitely in the claims.

In the drawing, Figure l is a plan view of a railway tie. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a side elevation thereof and Fig. 4; is a sectional view in the plane indicated by the line 4.--4 on Fig. l.

The tie is composed of two duplicate members A, A. Each member consists of a plate having end portions a which serve as rail seats; a middle portion a located in a plane below said seats; and inclined portions a2 which are intermediate of the middle portion and rail seats. Along one edge of the portions a and a2 is an upwardly extended vertical flange a3 in which is a horizontal slot at. A fiange a5 also extends downward from the same edge of each member, said flange extending from one end of the member to the other. A hook a is formed upon or secured to this flange at one end thereof.

Each tie has two rail engaging fingers al, r2-one formed upon each rail seat. Each tie member has also a perforated bracket a9 rising through the middle portion a. Two of these members, which are identical in shape and construction, are placed with their flanged edges in contact. A flat bar B goes through the two slots at. The ends of this bar are threaded and go through the holes in the two brackets a9. By turning nuts C onto the ends of this bar, the two tie members are moved relatively endwise.

The two rails D have in the meantime been placed on the rail seats, the flanges Z of the rails being placed between the two opposed fingers a?, as, of the respective members the relative endwise movement of the two tie members draws these fingers of each pair toward each other and into overhanging engagement with said rail flanges. The

same relative endwise movement of the tie members cause each of the hooks at on the two tie members respectively to engage the adjacent end of the flange a5 on the other member, and thereby the two tie members are held against separation by relative lateral movement. The bar B not only holds the tie members against relative endwise movement, but also holds them against rela* tive vertical movement because said bar lits the slots at. Strengthening ribs alo may be formed on the under side of the rail seats.

When these ties have been laid, and the two members moved so as to grasp the rails, as stated, and when the earth has been tamped beneath them there is very little likelihood that they will shift their position. The broad flat under surfaces practically prevent settling down. The flanges a5 being buried in the earth resist any tendency to move the ties in the direction parallel with the rails. The inclined parts a2 resist any tendency of the ties to move crosswise of the rails.

Having described my invention, I claim:

l. A railway tie comprising two members, each of which has a horizontal plate upon which is a rail seat near each of its ends, a slotted vertical flange extending above said plate and between said rail seats, and a bracket, combined with a connecting bar which goes obliquely through said slotted flanges and brackets, and nuts which screw on to the ends of said bar to draw the members relatively endwise and hold them in operative position.

2. A railway tie comprising two members, each of which has a horizontal plate upon which is a rail seat near each 0f its ends, a slotted vertical flange extending above said plate between said rail seats, and a bracket, combined with a connecting bar which goes obliquely through and is fitted in the slots in said flanges and which at its ends goes through said brackets, and nuts which screw on to the ends of said bar to draw the members relatively endwise and hold them in operative position.

3. A railway tie comprising two members, each of which has a horizontal plate upon which is a rail seat near each of its ends, a slotted vertical flange extending above said plate between said rail seats, a. bracket, a hook at one end and a depending flange at the other end, combined with a connecting bar which goes obliquely through said slotted anges and brackets, and nuts which screw on to the ends of said bar to draw the members relatively endwise and hold them in operative position.

4. A railway tie comprising two members, each of which has a broad plate, the ends of which serve as rail seats, a middle portion located in the plane below said rail seats, and inclined portions extending between and connected with the middle portion and said rail seats, an upwardly projecting flange 'along' 011e edge of the middle portion and the inclined portions of said plate, said flange being horizontally slotted, and a bracket rising from the middle portion of said plate, combined with a connecting bar which goes obliquely through said slotted ylianges and brackets, and nuts which screw on to the ends of said bar.

5. A'railway tie comprising two members, each of which consists of a broad plate hav# ing end portions which are in the same horizontal plane and serve as rail seats, a middle portion in a horizontal plane below that of therail seats, and inclined intermediate portions extendingbetween and connecting said middle portion and rail seats, a downwardly extended flange along one edge of each plate extending from end to end, an upwardly extended flange rising from the corresponding edge of the middle and inclined portions of said plate, said flange being horizontally slotted, and a bracket risingrom the middle part of said plate, combined with a connecting bar which goes obliquely through the said slotted flanges and through said brackets, and nuts screwing on -to the ends of said bar.

6. In a railway tie, the combination of 'two identical longitudinal members each having a horizontal plate ortion with a rail seat near each of its en s, and ngers on the same sides of the rail seats overhanging the vertical face of the side and pointing in the sam@ longitudinal direction, vertical ribs or flanges on the meetin'V edges of the members, and a bolt provided with clamping nuts adapted to so engage both of said members as to draw them relatively endwise into operative relations bringing their opposed yoverhanging pairs of lingers into transverse clamping contact with their respective opposite sides of and directly across the base anges of the rails, said bolt holding the members in such positions of engagement.

7. In a railway tie, the combination of two identical longitudinal members each having a. horizontal plate ortion with a rail seat near each of lts en s, and integral fingers on the 'same sides of the rail seats overhanging the vertical face of the side and pointing in the same longitudinal direction, vertical ribs or fianges on the meeting edges of the members, a hook on one end of each member adapted to embrace the rib or flange of the other member and pointing in the same direction as said lingers of 4the member, a bolt provided with clamping nuts adapted to so engage both of said members as to draw them relatively endwise into operative relation, bringing the end hook of each member into locking Aengagement wit-h the rib or flange of the other member and the opposed pairs of overhanging lingers into-direct transverse clamping contact with their respective opposite sides of the base flanges of the rails, said bolt holding the members in such positions of engagement.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto aiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

PATRICK HAGENEY. W'itnesses:

T. ASUMNAA, J. E. PILMER.

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