US1165834A - Railway-rail fastening to tie. - Google Patents

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'T M. BEAMlSH.

RAILWAY RAxL FASTENING To UE. APPUCATIDN FILED SEPT. 30, 1915.

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WITNESSES: IN1/EN T01? of the rail is held to the THOMAS IVI. BEAMISH, OF VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

RAILWAY-RAIL FASTENIG TO TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 30, 1915. Serial No. 53,374.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS Mr.' B'EAMisH, a citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, Caiiada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway- Rail F astenings to Ties, of which the following is a` specification.

This invention relates to a means for securing\a railway rail `to its ties and is intended as a substitute for the customary spike by which such vattachment is usually made. p

With the customary spike the holding 'power directly depends on the frictional grip of the wood on the sides of the spike, which hold, though it may -be satisfactory for a short time, becomes ineffective after a short period of use, and further the spike being vertically driven into the wood, water finds a ready entrance down the sides of the spike and decay of the wood rapidly ensues when the spike becomes practically useless as a securing means. These objections are overcome in the fastening, which is the subject of this application, wherein the Aflange tieby a hook member engaging its edge at each side of the tie, which hook member is beneath the flange of the rail, and its lower end is secured by aA the side of the tie, which spike is tapered to draw the hook member into tight engagment; as it is driven home. Such attachment is for ordinary requirements made as stated on opposite sides ofthe rail on opposite sides of the tie, but may be supplemented as required by one or two additional attachments on opposite sides of the flange Ion one or both sides of the tie.

The particular construction and application of this fastening are fully set forth in the following specification, reference being made to the drawings by which it is accompanied, in which:

Figure 1 shows the attachment of rail to tie in perspectivemtlie full lines indicating the ordinary'provision and the dot and dash lines the supplementary provision. Fig. 2 is a detail of the spike. the hook and its spike looking in the' direction of the arrow in Fig. 1.

.In these drawings 2 represents a standard yrail and 3 a wooden tie on which the rail rests and to which it is secured, Theattachment comprises a member 6 having at angularly disposed special spike driven intov be driven in Fig. 8 isa plan ofone end. a hook' 4 adapted to engage the flange of the rail and at the other end is bent to form an open hook 5 or a closed eye adapted to receive a spike 7, two sides of the spike being parallel to the aXis of the hook. y rThe spike 7 is formed with a square portion 8 for a short distance from its entering end and is thereafter tapered, as at 9, toward the head. This tapered portion is preferably turned toward the end of the hook or eye 5 so that it directly exercises its tightening effect on the hook engagement 4 on' the rail flange.

Between the hooks 4 and 5 the body of the hook member may be flattened, as at 6. This not only strengthens it against flexure under the pull through the hook ends but 'enables thelhook members to cross one another when a supplementary hook is applied, as shown by the dot and dash lines, while the hook end 5 is close up to the wood on the spike.

Under ordinary circumstances the rail will be secured by a hook attachment on each side of the tie 3 engaging opposite sides of the flange of the rail, but where extra security is required, s on a curve, a supplementary attachment may be applied, as shown by the dot and dash lines in Fig. 1, on opposite sides of the ange on one or both sides of the tie.

` The spikes are not in the first instance driven fully in so that they may subsequently farther from time to time to take up any slackness which may exist due to wear or compression of the wood under Y the flange of the rail.

.It will be noticed that not only has the spike a more positive hold of the wood to c secure the rail to the tie than where it is driven in from the top but owing to the angle at which the hook memberse are placed, if therejis any tendency for therail to move laterally on the tie the hook attach- 4ment draws the rail more tightly down to the tie. Further the angle at which the spike is driven into the wood, that is, obliquely acrossthe grain of the wood, is the strongest holding position and the lwood 4compressed by the driving of the spike is harder at 10 to resist the pull ofthe hook member. l

As explained also' in the preamble of this specification the spikes being driven in from the sides of the tie, instead of from the top, as is the present practice, water will not Patented Dec. 28, llg. Y

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lation distances apart; where (the reguhh tion number of ties per rail is .increased t0 such an es :nt that the proximity of adjacent ties interferes with the hammer drive the spike may be effectively driven either vby a pneumatichammer or by a lever or screw operated eramp.

Having now particularly described my invent-ion, Ihereby declarethat what I claim as new and desire to be protected in by Letters Patent, is:

l. A. railway rail fastening to tie, com prising a member having a hook at one end adapted to engage the upper side of the rail flange and at the other end provision for attachment to a spike driven into the side of the tie approximately under the other tdge of the rail flange which spike is wedgeshaped adjacent 'to its head to exercise a tightening pull on thehook member.

2. )l railway rail fastening to tie, com- Gopies 0f this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the prising the combination with a hook ended member adapted to extend angularly downward from the edge of the flange at one side of the rail to a position approximately under the other edge of the ange, of a securing spike having a parallel portion adja- Cent the point and thereafter tapered larger toward the head.

A railway rail fastening to tie, comprising a member havingat one end a hook adapted to engage the upper side of the rail fiange and at the other end a hook adapted to engage a spike driven into`the side of the tie approximately under the opposite f edge of the rail flange, said member intermediate of its ends being flattened that the hook members from opposite sides of the iange may cross one another on the same side of the tie.

In testimony whereof I atlix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

` THOMAS M. BEAMISH.

Witnesses: y

RowLAND Barrraix, MAY lVnY'rn.

Commissioner of Patent` Washington, D. C.

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