US1571141A - Rail chair and clamp - Google Patents

Description

. Jam, 26 1926.

WITNESS:

1,571,141 A. J. PARK RAIL CHAIR AND CLAMP Filed May 2, 1924 INVENTOR my M W I V v ATTORNEY Patented Jan. 26, 1926.

PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW J. PARK, 01? PUEBLO, COLORADO.

. BAIL CHAIR AND CLAMP.

Application filed May 2,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW J. PARK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pueblo, in the county of Pueblo and State of Colorado, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rail Chairs and Clamps, )f which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to produce a combined chair and joint for railway rails comprising members connected to the rails and extending the entire length of the track, and wherein the joints between the rails and the members are broken so that a practically continuous rail is produced.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in the improvement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1. is a perspective view showing the improvement secured on the rails of a track and spiked to the ties therefor.

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view through the improvement as applied to a rail.

In the drawings the rails of a railway track are indicated by the numeral 1, and the supporting ties therefor by the numeral 2. By reference to Figure 1 of the drawing itwill be seen that my in'lprovernent is designed to extend the entire length of the track and that the improvement is arranged on the rails in a manner whereby the joints of the elements constituting the same are broken, and likewise the said improvement breaks the joints between the confronting ends of the rails, and consequently provides a rail plate and brace chair which affords a substantially continuous rail.

The improvement is preferably construct ed of sections equalling the length of the rails 1. The improvements contemplates members, each of which includes a base 3 channeled to receive the base of the rail therein. The base, on its outer edge is integrally formed with an inwardly disposed angle flange 4 which rests on the top of the outer flange of the rails 1. From the flange 4 the improvement is provided with an upstanding plate 5 that terminates in a thickened head 6. The head underlies the head of the ra l on the outer side of the said 1924. Serial No. 710,654.

rail. The base 3 is continued outwardly from its flange 5 and is provided with openings that receive therethrough spikes 7 that enter the ties 2. At the joints of the rails 1, and at the joints of the sections constituting my improvement I arrange in the fishing spaces on the inner sides of the rails angle fish plates 8 and 9. The fish plates 9 which are arranged at the joints of the rails 1 are longer than the fish plates 8 which are arranged opposite the joints of my improvement, and through these fish plates there are passed the ordinary bolts which are engaged by the usual nuts. Four bolts are passed through the fish plates 9, while two are passed through the fish plate 8, this number being deemed sufficient to connect the connecting ends of the improvement.

The inner flange of the base 3 of the improvement is notched at determined intervals, as indicated by the numeral 10. These notches provide for the passage of pinch bars beneath the flanges of the rails and to assist in the arrangement of the rails in the improvement or the removal of the rails therefrom.

Having claim In combination with the rails of a railway track, of a means for bracing and providing a substantially continuous rail, comprising members of a length approximately equalling the length of the rails, each of said members having a channeled base to receive the base of the rails therein, an outer angle flange to contact with the flange of the rail, a plate projecting from the flange and terminating in a head to underlie the head of the rail, said members designed to have their ends disposed opposite the confrontingends of the rails, fish plates in the inner fishing spaces of the rails bolted to the members at the confronting ends thereof and likewise bolted to the members at the confronting ends of the rails, spikes securing the members on the ties, and said members having their base portions on their inner sides notched, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I alfix my signature.

ANDREW .J. PARK.

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