USRE3301E - Improved railway-rail joint - Google Patents

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li-PETERS., PNOYD-UTHOEHAPHER. WASHINGTON. Dv C.

a detail sectional view of the same, taken G are bolts, the heads of which are square-d ling, as hereinafter more fully described. at the weak point, which is the j oint of the rails,

UNiTEn STATES PATENT @Erica E. G. PATTERSON, F FITHOLE CITY, PENNSYLVANIA.

l-MPROVED RAILWAY-RAIL JOINT.

Specification forming part of' Letters Patent No. 52,744, dated October G, 15GB; Reissue No. 3,301, dated February 16, 1869.

To @ZZ whom, t may concern: farther down between the inclined jaws of the Be it known that I, E. G. PATTERSON, of said chair. The bottom of the chair D rests Pithole City, Venango county, Pennsylvania, upon the middle part of the wooden bars E, have invented a new and useful Improvement which said bars E are kept from lateral movein Rail Joints or Couplings; and I do hereby ment or displacement by the lips d2, formed declareA that the following` is a full, clear, and upon the ends of the under side of the chair exact description thereof, which will enable D, and which overlap the sides of the said others skilled in the art to make anduse the bars E. n K same, reference being had to the accompany- F are the clamps which clasp the inclined or ing drawings, forming a part of this specicasloping` outer sides of the fish bars or plates C, and the inner sides of the jaws of which are Figure l is a side View of the contiguous hollowed out, so that they maynotbear against ends ol two adjacent rails to which my imthe edges of the bottom ianges of the rails A proved coupling has been attached. Fig. Qis and B.

through the line x x, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a deand countersunk in the bottom plate of the tail sectional view of the same, taken through clamps F, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2,

the line yy, Fig. l. and which pass through holes through the ends Similar letters of reference indicate correof the barE when said bar is made in one piece, sponding parts. and through notches in the adjacent sides of My invention has for its object to furnish an the bars E when made in two parts or pieces. improved coupling or joint for the rails of rail- The bars E are .held in place by washers and road-tracks, which shall be so constructed as to nuts II,placed upon the lower ends of the said securely connect the ends ofthe rails to each bolts G. By this construction the iislrplates other, without weakening the said rails by the C carry the weight, and are the'main supformation of bolt-holes, and in such a manner port to the ends of the rails, the chair, clamps, that the said ends may receive a steadystrainwboden bars, rbc., being designed, primarily, ing-support; and it consists in the construction J to keep the iish plates or bars securely in place. and combination of variousfparts ofthe coup- If the iish-plates C should yield, a depression A and B are the adjacent ends of two contigforces the said plates C more firmly into the -nous rails. chair D, causing the said fish-plates to hug the C are the fish plates or bars, which extend rails more closely. The pressure exerted upon along the sides ofthe ends A and B of the rails, the chair D is communicated by the elastic between the top and base ianges of said rails. wooden barsE to the clamps F, oausin g the said The innersides of the iishiplatesCarehollowed clamps to more firmly bind the fish-plates C. out, so that they may bear only against the top The wooden barsEbeing screwed up by means and base ilanges of said rails, and their outer of the bolts G and nutsH to as'teady strainingsides are made sloping or inclining outward, as point, the rails obtain their steady aid in supshown in Figs. l and 2. porting the load upon the iish-plate, making D is the chair, which is placed directly bethe coupling act as a truss. neath the joint, between the ends A and B of i It should be observed thatloosening thenuts the rails. The inner surface ofthe upwardly- H, so that the bars Emay be free from the lips projecting j aws d of the chair inolines outward d2, allows the said bars E to be removed,when l and enters inclined notches in the bottom the clamps F may be easily slipped from the anges in the ends of the rails A and B, and in ends yof the fish-plates, and the chair D and the lower parts of the outer or sloping sides of sh-plates C may be conveniently and easily the fish-plates C, as shown in Fig. 3, so that the detached without in the least disturbing the pressure of any weight upon. the ends A and rails. B of the rails may force the said rails and ish- I claim as new and desire to secure by Letplates more closelyr together by forcing them ters Patent- 1 1. The chair D, made with the` inner sides 1 of its jaws inclined or Wedge-shaped, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The clamps F, constructed as described, and provided with bolts Gr and nuts H, in combination with the fish-plates G, by which they are supported,und with the Wooden bar or bars E,Which they support, substantially as herein shown and described, for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination of the ish-plates C und chair D with each other und with the ends A and B of the rails,substantially as herein shown and described7 to forni a rigid support for the said ends of said rails.

4. The combination of the shplates C, chair D, Wooden bar or bars E, and clamps F, with each other and with the endsA and B of the shown and derails, substantially as herein scribed, and for the purpose set forth.

5. 'The ish-plates C, constructed in such a Way as to bear Wholly, or nearly so, bottom flanges of the rails, notches in their outer or sloping sides,

upon the undhaving inclined substantially as herein shown and described, and

for the purpose set forth'.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 15th day of January, 1869.

E. G. PATTERSON.

Witnesses:

FRANK BLOOKLEY, JAMEs T. GRAHAM.

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