US1481765A - Guard rail - Google Patents

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Jan, 22, 1924 L. M. WENTLING GUARDRAIL Filed Jan. 25, 1923 :lila/vwo@ 672273@ flrtouwg Patented dan. 22, 1924.

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FOXBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

GUARD RAIL.

.Application fried January 25, i923. serial NQ. 614,312.y

Y To allwhom'z't may mwen/L: Y Y K- Be it known that I, Lnsfrnn M; VVENTLING, a citizen of thevUnited States of America, residing at Foxburg, in A'the county of V Clarion and State yof Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Guard Rails, of whichthel following is a specification. p Y l The object ofthe invention is to provide a safety guard railrfor railroad tracks which` is adapted not only to perform the usual.

function of a guard rail but to serve as a substantial reii'iforcement for the track rail in the matter of securing' lthe same against displacement or deflection under a track spreadingy strain; furthermore to provide' a guard rail which 1n connection ywith `a base platesuitable for seatingthe j track rail is adapted to definitely lock the track rail against spreading action whilepermitting freedom Gif-longitudinal movement incidental to variations in length due to changes in temperature, while maintaining a iiXed position of the guard rail in reference to the ties and to the base plates carried thereby; and furthermore to provide a guard rail which is not open to the objectionordinarily eX- perienced that the heels of boot-s or shoes of pedestrians traversing the tracks are subject to being caught between the guard rail and the head of the track rail; and with these objects in view the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein r* v Figure l1 is a plan view of a section of a railway track including a guard rail and related parts constructed in accordance with the invention. Y

Figures 2, 3 and 4 are sectional views respectively on the planes indicated by the.

lines 2 2, 1L- 4t and 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a plan view of one of the bed orbase plates. Y

The guard rail 10 of which the upper edge l1 is arranged in the plane of the tread 1.2 of the track rail13 is channeled as indicated at 14 for the flange of a wheel traversing the tread of the track rail and is provided with a lateral wing` 15 which-snugly engages and fills the space betweenthe hea-d and the foot of the track rail so as to constitute ,an interlocking engagement with the track railserving to brace the latter substan- `tially throughout its height. The track and guard rails, thus interlockedV under rails permitting of thelongitudinal movement of the track rail incidental to expansion and contraction thereby by changes in temperature are supported by bed-plates or base plates 16 secured to the ties 17 andy having depressed seats 18 bounded laterally byv shoulders 19 formed by terminal enlargements 2O on the plate. The bed plate is secured to the tie by means of spikes engagingvopenings 21 inthe plate, the staggering thereof obviously being designedto minimize the tendency of the spikes tol split the tie, and supplemented by anadditional spike for which purpose a supplemental opening 22 is formed at the outer end of the plate orat that end whichris outside ofthe track as an additional security and lwhichispreferably arranged opposite the intervals between the outer and inner spike openings The bed plate 1s further provided- 21. within the seat 18- with openings 23 for the reception of rivets 24 depending` from the guard vrail and serving to definitely anchor the latter to the bed plate and therefore to the ties by which the bed plates mutually supporting a guard rail are carried. The spike openings 21 are formed in the shoulders constituting the thickest por- Y tion of the bed plate and break into the seat so that the heads-of the spikes which are directed inwardly or toward the rails (to-wit the interlocked track and guard rails) and which `overhang the feet of said rails, may directly bear upon and clamp said bases to the bed plate.

Furthermore the guard rail'is preferably thickened horizontally toward its extremi- .ties and the channel 14 formed therein is correspondingly flanged so as to present no E terminal interval which is likely to engage 'with a foot or shoe or object approaching outer portion of the base of the track rail and yet permits the track railfto expand longitudinally in parallelism with the guard rail without in any way affecting or changing the relation of the guard rail relative to the frog. In practically all devices, the guard rail is fastened to the track rail and, furthermore, theguard rails in all other devices do not conform to the fish plate receiving recess of the track rail. In the present device, due to the track rail receiving vseat with its opposed terminal shoulders, there is no chance for the track rail 'to lbe displaced and, therefore, preventing destroying the gauge between the two vrails well as preventing 'destroying the gauge between the ball of fthe track. rail and the ball ofthe guardrail, the guard rail at all timesre-A maining ina uniform position relative tothe frog while the 'track rail is capable of'eXpansion and contraction longitudinally in parallelism with the guard rail.

'Having'described the invention, what is claimed 'as new and useful is l. ln a v'guard rail, the combination with bed plates provided with depressed seats in! clu'ding terminal shoulders, of ahtrack rail with'its base engaging the `bottoms of the seats, with one edge of the base in engagement with corresponding'terminal shoulders at the outer portions of the bed plates, means retaining the euteredges ofthe'base in engagement with the 'outer shoulders, a

guard rail with 4its base lengaging between the inner edge of the'track rail vand ythe shoulders at the inner ends of the bed plates, andmeans for retaining the guard rail base in engagement with the inner shoulders and fastening the bed plates to the ties, said guard rail providedwith a lateral wingv extending longitudinally thereof and conforming throughoutits length with .and engagiiw the sh plate receiving recess ofthe track rail, thereby retaining ,the track rail in position and yet permitting it to expand and .contract longitudinally in parallelism with the guard rail without effecting any change Vof the guard rail'with relation to a frog adapted to oppose the guard rail. s

2. In a guardrail cnstruction, the, combinationwith bed plates provided with .depressed seats, 'of a rguard, rail with itsbase engaging: saidfseats .adjacent their terminals atl Lthe infiiei'* ends ofthe plates, means for fasteningfthefbase of the lguard rail permanently'to'the 'bed plates, said guard rail having a lateral wing facing outwardly with itsruppery face ya substantial distance below the lball of theguard rail,4 and a track rail with its basevengaging said seats, with one sideof its flange conforming to and engaging under said lateral wing which conforms to and engages with the fish plate receiving recess of the track rail, whereby thetrac'k rail may expandv and contract longitudinally in yparallelism with the rail which` remains in uniform position with relation to an opposedffrog. Y

Intestinriony'whereof I my signature,

` LESTERMJWENTLIN

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