US1429087A - Railway tie - Google Patents

Description

J. NEIMEYER.

RAILWAY TIE.

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JOHN NEIMEYER, or TBENTON, 01 110.

RAILW'AY TIE.

Application fi1ed,September 12, 1921. Serial no. 500,156. M 1

ful Improvements in Railway Ties, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates particularly to nonmetallic ties, and ties'preferably of wood, and is designed especially with the view to providing a tie of this character that may with facility be tamped from the sides and ends in such manner as to provide a maximum bearing surface for the tie, and insure a proper and stable set for the tie in the roadbed. As thus constructed the tie is comparatively inexpensive in cost of production and is capable of being placed and .tamped in the roadbed in fixed position to prevent longitudinal or other movement within its bed. i

The invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangements of features in the construction of'the tie as will be hereinafter pointed out and claimed. In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of my invention wherein the tie is illustrated as constructed according to the best mode I have thus far devised for the practical application of the principles of my invention.

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a tie constructed according to my invention, showing the rails in section.

Figure 2 is a bottom plan view of the tie of Fig. 1. a

Figure 3 is an end view of the tie.

Figure 4 is alongitudinal vertical, sec

tional view at one end of the tie.

In the preferred form of the invention as illustrated'in the drawings, the tie 1 is of wood of the usual or standard dimensions and general outline, and the rails 2 that are secured by the spikes 3 are illustrated in Fig. 1 to show the relation of parts.

The bottom or underside of the tie, intermediate its ends is rounded or curved transversely as at 4, and at 5, 5, the straight sides of the tie merge with the rounded bottom, these longitudinal edges 5 being also curved, but on a much smaller arc than that of the rounded bottom 4. The rounded bottom and curved edges permit the use of tamping tools for tamping the material under and around the tie alongits sides, and the curved bottomiand sides or edges of the tie provide additional bearing surface for E the tie in its bed. 1 g

At each end the tie is provided with a groove 6 extending from the extremity of the tie toward its center, and at a point 7 approximately under the line ofthe rail or] track, the groove terminates and merges into the rounded bottom a of thetie. It will be seen that the ends of the tie are beveled or inclined, the lower ends. of these inclined and the presence of the groove 6 in these 7 beveled ends of thetie form ribs, at- 6, at

the respective sides of the groove. The groove and the lateral ribs 6 merge with the'rounded bottom of the tie just below the point of support for the railway rail 2.

It will. be apparent that. the tie may be tamped with suitable tools from its endsand the material forced in and under the grooved ends and under the ribs 6, and as thus tamped the tie rests in its bed and is interlocked withthe material of the roadbed disposed in the grooves, under the beveled ends or" the tie, and about the side ribs 6', 6. This construction of the tie permits the tamping of the tie into position in its roadbed in such manner as to prevent both lateral and longitudinal movement of the tie, as it will be apparent that the material will hold the tie and prevent either of these movements. The roadbed with ties of this character placed therein is thus rendered more durable, stable, and less likely to require frequent repair.

. Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent is- I -1. A wooden railway tie having beveled underfaces at its ends, and grooves in said faces mergingwith the bottom of the tie,

said grooves forming lateral ribs merging with the bottom of the tie.-

2. A wooden railway tie having a rounded the tie.

JOHN NEIMEYER.

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