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Publication number: US398206A
Authority: US; United States
Prior art keywords: rail; cable; railway; railway crossing; rails
Prior art date: 1889-02-19
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B61—RAILWAYS
- B61K—AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR RAILWAYS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B61K5/00—Apparatus for placing vehicles on the track; Derailers; Lifting or lowering rail vehicle axles or wheels
- B61K5/02—Devices secured to the vehicles; Turntables integral with the vehicles

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the girder-support 1 which preferably Be it known that I, FREDRIC C. IVEIR, of made of the form shown in an application of Cincinnati, in the county 'of Hamilton and even date herewith, filed by F. C. ⁇ Veir and 35 State of Ohio, have invented. certain new N. O. Goldsmith, Serial No. 2"4c,912.
the rear 5 and useful Improvements in Cable or Railend of said rail 1 is provided with a guard, way Crossings, of. which the following is a 12, so as to prevent derailment at its junction specification. with the ordinary girder-rail, 13, as shown in The object of my invention is to provide a Fig. 1.
FIG. 2 is a side elevation showing the tram-rail inner ends ot' which are bolted to the slotconnected to a slot-rail and a street-railway rails. rail.
Fig. 3 is a central verticalsection of my Having described my invtmtion, what I improvement unit-ed to a slot-rail.
Fig. 1 is claim is- 5 20 a detail view of my improved rail in cross- 1.
the cmssing-rail 1, provided with base section. 2, tramway 3, flange 1, and the ears 5, sub- I representsa railwaya'ail provided with the stantially as herein set forth.
cars 5 and 6,with the tramway 3, and guard 2 5 provide a strong support for the crossing, the 4-, substantially as herein specified.

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I. O. WEIR.

CABLE 0R RAILWAY eeossme.

No. 398,206. Patented Feb. 19, 1889.,

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CABLE. OR RAILWAY CROSSING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,206, dated February 19, 1889.

T aZZ whom 2'25 may concern: the girder-support 1], which preferably Be it known that I, FREDRIC C. IVEIR, of made of the form shown in an application of Cincinnati, in the county 'of Hamilton and even date herewith, filed by F. C. \Veir and 35 State of Ohio, have invented. certain new N. O. Goldsmith, Serial No. 2"4c,912. The rear 5 and useful Improvements in Cable or Railend of said rail 1 is provided with a guard, way Crossings, of. which the following is a 12, so as to prevent derailment at its junction specification. with the ordinary girder-rail, 13, as shown in The object of my invention is to provide a Fig. 1. .0 street-railway rail that can be readily and In order to connect the tram-rail. 1 to the firmly attached to a cable railway, s) as to street-rails, I provide two ears, (5 6, as shown form a protectirig-guard crossing, the features in Fig. 1, which fit the web 0!? said street-rail of which will be fully set tort-l1 in the descripand are connected thereto, as shown in Fig. tion of the accompanying drawings, making 2, by bolts 8. a part of this specification, in which 11 represents the girder or support of said 1' 5 Figure 1 is a top plan view of Fig. 2. Fig. rail 1. Rail. 1 is made of two sections, the

2 is a side elevation showing the tram-rail inner ends ot' which are bolted to the slotconnected to a slot-rail and a street-railway rails. rail. Fig. 3 is a central verticalsection of my Having described my invtmtion, what I improvement unit-ed to a slot-rail. Fig. 1 is claim is- 5 20 a detail view of my improved rail in cross- 1. The cmssing-rail 1, provided with base section. 2, tramway 3, flange 1, and the ears 5, sub- I representsa railwaya'ail provided with the stantially as herein set forth. I fiange-hase 2 and tramway 3 and the guard 4, 3. The crossing-rail 1, provided with hosses as shown in cross seetion, Fig. 3. In order to 9, cars 5 and 6,with the tramway 3, and guard 2 5 provide a strong support for the crossing, the 4-, substantially as herein specified.

rail, 1 is provided with ears 5 6, cast on with In testimony whereof I have hereunto set said rails of a shape to [it the webs of the slotmy hand. ted rails andthe girder-rails to which the are respectively COIIIIGCIGCI by means of hglts 7 30 and In order to make the rail strong in \Vit-nesses:

cross-section, I make bosses 9, through which ROBERT ZAHNER, pass vertical bolts 10, to secure said rails to J. IVATSON SIMS.

Application filed May 24, 1888. $erial No. 274,974. (No model.)

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