US1497987A - Metallic tie - Google Patents

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W. M.. RIGGINS METALLIC TIE' June 17 1924,

Filed Oct. 16. 1923 abtoumq Patented June 17, 1924;

UNITED STATES WILLIAM M. HIGGINS, OF LYNCH, KENTUCKY.

METALLIC TIE.

Application filed October 16, 1923. Serial No. 668,914.

To //ZZ whom. it may concern."

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. Brooms, citizen of the United States. residing at Lynch, in the county of Harlan and State of Kentucky. have invented new and useful Improvements in Metallic Ties, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in metallic ties for railroads.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of metallic cross ties and to provide a simple practical and efficient cross tie of strong and durable construction adapted to be easily manufactured of steel and capable of affording the neces sary support for the rails and equipped with means for engaging the road bed to prevent the cross tie from creeping longitudinally of the road bed.

with these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claim hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in theform, proportion and minor details of construcion, within the scope of the claim, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, in which like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in the several views:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a steel tie constructed in accordance with this invention.

Fig.2 is a reverse plan view of the same.

Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the tie shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Referring particularly to Figs. 1 to 3 inelusive of the drawings, the steel tie comprises in its construction, a flat horizontal body plate 1, provided at its side edges with straight longitudinal vertically disposed depending side flanges 2, which, with the horizontal body plate, form a channel cross tie adapted to support rails 3, of any desired size upon a road bed in the usual manner. The flat horizontalbody plate 1, is adapted to rest upon the road bed, and the space between the side flanges 2 is filled with the material of the roa'abed and in order to prevent the tie from creeping longitudi nally, it is equipped at each end with sets of depending wedge shaped anti-creeping devices 4, extending below the lower edges of the side flanges of the tie and tapered downwardly and adapted to be embedded in the material of the road bed and to readily cut their way into the same when placing the tie in position thereon. The wedge shaped anti-creeping devices consist of plates of steel or other suitable material and are provided with upper rectangular shanks 5 which are riveted or otherwise secured to the inner faces of the side flanges 2.. The rectangular attaching shanks or portions 5 of the anti-creeping devices present flat faces to the depending side flanges of the tie and straight horizontal upper edges to the lower face ofthe flat horizontal body plate of the tie, and they are arranged in staggered relation as clearly illustrated in 2 of thedrawing. A set of the anti creeping devices is provided at each end of the tie and one member of each set is arranged at the outside of the adjacent rail and the other member at the inner side of the same.

The rails 3 are secured to the upper face of the horizontal body plate of the cross ties by means of inner and outer rail clamps 6 and 7, having outer attaching portions and 1nner aws or engaging portions -which fit against and conform to the configuration of the web and bottom flanges of the rails. The outer rail clamp is preferably rigid and fixed to the tie rail. The inner rail clamp is preferably pivoted at 8 and detachably bolted at 9 to enable the inner rail clamp to be readily swung into and out of engagement with therail and to, be secured rigidly in its engaging position after the rail has been placed upon the tie. This will enable the rails to be readily placed on and removed from the tie.

What is claimed is:

A tie comprising a flat horizontal body plate provided at opposite sides with depending flanges forming a channel, and depending approximately wedge shaped anticreeping devices arranged in sets at the end portions of the body plate in staggered rela tion with the devices of each set on opposite sides of the respective rails andealch device posed in a vertical plane and being arranged in planes parallel With said flanges and the longitudinal. axes of the body plate,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

his WILLIAM M. X HIGGINS Witness; e 7

CHARLES LANKFORD.

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