US978413A - Railway-tie. - Google Patents

Description

L. L. VAN HORN.

RAILWAY TIE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.15

Patented Dec. 13, 1910.

2 EEETS-BHEET 1.

L. L. VAN HORN.

RAILWAY TIE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 15, 1910.

Patened Das. l3, 1910.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

LELAND L. VAN HORN, F POSTVILLE, IOWA.

RAILWAY-TIE.

Patented Dee. 13, 1910.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application leii August 15, 1910. Serial No. 577,147.

. frame in any sui-table and preferred manner.

lo all 'whom it may concern. i

Be it known that LELAND L. VAN Hoang `a citizen of the United States, residing atsame is provided on its upper face with Postvjlle, in the county of Allamakee, State spaced rail receiving grooves 17 and '18 in of Iowa; haveinvented certain new andusewhich are disposed the rails 19 and 20 re- 4ful Im rovements in Railway-Ties; and I spcctively. A plurality of sockets 21 are clear, and exact description of the invention,

. cured to Vthe 'do here y declare the following to be a full, formed in the cement lilling 12 by embedding metallic casings therein. These socksuch as will enable others skilled in the art ets 21 are located on opposite sides of the ends of the frame 10 and itsV portion disposed in parallel v'spaced relation to said frame. Conned 4the frame 10 and above the bar 11 thereto, a liller of cement within said frame intermediate Said filler being tapered from the lower edge of the frame to the base ofthe filler.'

Inltestimony whereof, I aflix my signawhicheare ta ture, iny presence of two witnesses. A.

ered downwardly substane .tall from the ower ed e of the frame 10 z tft e base of t-he llingg `as at 13. rThis 4 LELAND :HORN' lling 12` is reinforced by metallic rods l5 Vitnesses: 1.

i l nd 16 passing therethrough'and secured at P. J. BENCHER,

leach end respectively. to the ends of the A. W LANG.

In setting the cement filling 12 the- V10 `to which it appertains to make and use the rail receiving grooves 17 and 1S respectively same. Al `and are disposed in opposing pairs. Each rIhis invention relates to railway ties. of these sockets 21 is formed with a down-.

The objectv of the invention resides in the wardly convex shoulder 22 and disposed in construction of a comparatively simple and each socket is a bolt 23 havinfr a curved inexpensive device of this vcharacter which lower end 24 en aging the shoulder 22 and i at tha same time will be exceedingly strong conformin totie shape thereof. The upi and durable in use. per end og the bolt 23 projects beyond the A furtherobject of the invention resides upper face of the tie and is threaded as .in the production of a railway tie provided at 25.

2 9 with means for firmly securing the rails in Mounted upon the upper end of each bolt lace and which toa measurable extent will is a locking plate 26 and a shield plate 2 7 lie relieved offthe vibration to which the the former of which is adapted to engage rails are in practice subjected. f the base of an adjacent 'rail and the latter to With the above and other objects in :view close the open end of the socket 21. A nut the invention consists in the details pff con- 28 traveling on the threaded end of the bolt rstruction and in the' arrangement an .com- 23 serves to bind the locking plate 26 upon .bination of arts as will be hereinafter more the rail base and the shield plate 27 upon the full descried and particularly pointed out upper face of the tie across the 'open end of int e appended cla1m.` i the socket, the latter thus ireventing the 3N In describing the inventionin detail refvsocket from becomin fille with foreign erence will be had to 'the accompanying matter and enabling t ie bolt 23 to be withdrawings wherein like characters of refer-` drawn from the socket at all times with ence denote corresponding parts in .the sevcomparative ease. 1

eral views, and in which, From the forevoin itwill be apparent 35 Figure 1, is aiplan view of a railway tie that thereis producer? a simple inexpensive constructed in accordance with the inver. tie which in practice will be strong and dution; Fig. 2, a sect-ion on the line 2*2 of F ig. rable and which is providedwith simple and Q1; Fig.1i 3,;a plan view of the tie, with the elicient means for attaching the rails and f .lf'ailfiidarail securing devices removed; Fi tieto'gether. 4o 4, an end view of thetie as illustrated 1n 'hat is claimed is:

' Figs. 1 and 2; and,F ig.' 5, fa section-on the A railway tie comprising a rectangular 'line 5 *5 of Fig.3. metal frame, a bar having its terminals con* Referring to the drawings, the tie is nected respectively to the ends of said frame shown as comprising a metallic rectangular and "its intermediate -portion disposed beframe 10. A bar' 11 has its terminals seneath the frame in parallel spaced relation and above the bar, the longitudinal edges of

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