US1016045A - Rail-fastener. - Google Patents

Description

K. SZTEJNERT.

RAIL FASTENBR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 6, 1911.

1,016,045. Patented Jan. 30, 1912.

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RAIL-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 6, 1911.

Patented J an. 30, 1912.

Serial No. 658,630.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, KAZIMIERZ SZTEJNERT, a subject of the Czar of Russia, residing at Hazleton, in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail- Fasteners, of which the following is a speci fication, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to rail fasteners, and the objects of my invention are to pro vide a fastener that can be advantageously used in connection with guard rails for permanently or temporarily holding the same relatively to the main rails of a track, and to provide a fastener that can be used in connection with the main rails of a track in lieu of spikes.

Further objects of my invention are to provide rail fasteners that can be easily and quickly installed by unskilled labor, and to accomplish the above results by a mechanical construction that is durable and inexpensive to manufacture.

With the above and other objects in view the invention resides in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter specifically described and then claimed.

Reference will noW be had to the drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of a tie supporting guard rails held in position by my improved fastener. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing a fastener designed for the main rails of a track. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a detached tie plate. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a portion of the fastener for the main rails of a track. Fig. 5 is a similar view of one of the fasteners for a guard rail, and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a detached coupling member.

Reference will first be had to Figs. 1, 3, 5 and 6 showing the fastener for guard rails.

The reference numeral 1 denotes the tie of the ordinary and well lmown construction supporting the main rails 2 of a track and located adjacent to these rails are guard rails 3. Engaging the base flanges 4 of the guard rails are tongs 5 and 6 pivotally connected together, as at 7. The tongs 5 and 6 have the ends thereof screw threaded, as at 8 to receive nuts 9 and 10 respectively.

The threaded ends of the tongs 5 extend through openings 11 provided therefor in angularly disposed bars 12 formed integral with tie plates 13 mounted upon the ends of the tie 1. The bars project from the sides of the tie plates 13 to receive the tongs 5 and the nuts 9.

The threaded ends 8 of the tongs 6 are connected by a coupling member 14: having angularly disposed ends 15 provided with openings 16 to receive the ends of the tongs 6. The nuts 10 are then screwed upon the tongs to hold said tongs in place.

In Fig. 2 of the drawing the tongs 5 are used in connection with a double tong member 17 that engages the outer base flanges of the rails 2, While the tongs 5 engage the inner base flanges. The tongs 5 are pivotally connected to the double tong 17 and the tongs 5 have the ends thereof held by I tie plates similar to those previously described.

While I have herein illustrated the fastener as located upon one side ofthe tie, I would have it understood that the fasteners can be used upon both sides of the tie, in either of the forms shown or with the form shown in Fig. 1 associated with the form shown in Fig. 2.

\Nhat I claim is 1. Rail fasteners comprising tongs engaging the outer base flanges of rails and having the ends thereof connected, tongs engaging the inner base flanges of the same rails and pivotally connected to the first mentioned tongs, and tie plates for holding said tongs.

2. In a rail fastener, the combination with a tie and rails, of tongs engaging the outer base flanges of said rails and having the ends thereof connected, tongs pivotally connected to the first mentioned tongs and engaging the inner base flanges of said rails, tie plates arranged upon the ends of said tie, and means for holding the ends of the last mentioned tongs in engagementwith said tie plates.

3. In a fastener for guard rails, a tie supporting said rails, tongs engaging the outer base flanges of said rails, a coupling memends of said tongs in engagement With said her connecting the ends of said tongs, tongs bars. 10 pivotaliy connected to the first mentioned In testimony whereof I afliX my signature tongs beneath said rails and engaging the in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

inner base flanges thereof, tie plates KAZIMIERZ SZTEJNERT. mounted upon the ends of said tie, bars car- \Vitnesses:

i'ied by said plates and protruding from the WILLIAM LoKsHAW,

sides thereof, and means for holding the MICHAEL DROSDICK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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