US506570A - Elevated railway - Google Patents

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J. N. VALLEY. ELEVATED RAILWAY.

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Patentgd Oct. 10, 1893.

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ELEVATED RAILWAY.

No. 506,570. Patented Oct. 1893.

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ATTORNEYS.

. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. JOHN N. VALLEY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

E LEVATE D RAILWAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 506,570, dated October 10, I893. Application filed March 29, 1893. Serial No. 468,154. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN N.VALLEY, of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of NcwJersey, have invented a new and Improved Elevated Railway, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention has for its Object to provide an improved traveling carriage or hanger, suitable for suspending any desired form of car, whereby the derailment of the car will be positively prevented.

A further objectis to provide an improved track and support for the same.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter particularly described and defined in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a section of a railway embodying my improvements, and representing a passenger car thereon suspended by my improved carriages or hangers. Fig. 2 is a side view of one of the car riages and a portion of the track, the brake shown in Fig. 1 being omitted, as it forms no part of the present invention. Fig. 3 is an end view of such'carriage, the track being shown in transverse section. Fig. at is a plan view of the carriage with a portion of the track in section; and Fig. 5 is an enlarged transverse sectional elevation of the track.

'In constructing a railway in accordance with my invention, the track A is secured to girders B by straps A, or the like, the girders being clamped, or bolted, as hereinafter described, to supporting posts 0, which are preferably inclined toward each other.

The track A comprises the I-beam ct, and the rails a which are secured to' the lower head of the I-beam. The said rails are T- shaped in cross section, the stem or web of the T lying horizontally on the lower flanges of the I-beam at each side of the latter, the head of the T being disposed vertically. As

best seen in Figs. 3 and 5, the railsa are secured in place by means of transverse keeper bars a which extend through openings a iu the web of the I-beam, bolts a, serving to complete the connection, the bolts being passed through the keeper bars 0?, the horizontal member of thoT rails 01/ and thelower head or flanges of the I beams a. Thus a the rails is distributed.

The improved carriages or hangers comprise the frame D, the suspension wheels E, and the safety wheels F, the construction and arrangement of which are as follows:The carriage has four standards (1 of U-shape in horizontal section, there being two such standards at each side of the carriage, the whole being united at the bottom by a band d, extending around the sides and ends of the carriage, the ends of the band being overlapped and bolted together as at d or otherwise united. The band d is bolted to the standards d by the bolts d At the top, side bars (1 unite the standards d and Within the u-shaped standards, blocks 6, are fitted, through which the axles e of the wheels E pass,tl1e axles passing also through the standards d and side bars CF, and secured by nuts 6 the wheels E being mounted to rotate on the inwardly projecting ends of the axles, a separate axle being provided for each wheel E, and the wheels being preferably arranged so that their flanges are on the inside of the tread of the rails a, as will appear fromFig. 3.

The safety wheels F are mounted on axles F',which have suitable bearings in the standards d, as at f, or the wheels may rotate on such axles. The treads of the safety wheels F, are spaced from the running wheels E, below the same, a sufficient. distance to receive the rails a between them, whereby the flanges of the running wheels and safety wheels will travel at the inside of the track rails and engage the same and positively hold the carriage on the track. By this construction it will be seen that it will be almost impossible for the carriage to become derailed. About centrally of each carriage a yoke Gis bolted or otherwise secured byits upwardly extending arms 9 to the band (1, and to such yoke there are swiveled forks H, between the arms of which forks is received the eye j, of a bail or suspension frame J, which extends down the sides of the car I, and is secured to the latter. A tie rod K, connects the two carriages of each car, said tie rod being passed 'through the fork H and the eye j of the bail firm connection is secured and the strain on J, the ends of the tie bar being threaded to receive nuts 70. An adjustable ,collar 70 is also provided on the tie rod, the fork being clamped between the nut is and said collar.

In practice, the car may be propelled by animal power, or by an electric motor on one or both of the carriages. The girders B, are in the form of I-beams, and the flanges thereof at one side are cut away, as at b, to receive the posts 0. A collar or clip B formed. in flanged half-sections, is bolted on each post below the girders, and forms a rest or support therefor. The collars may be adjusted to conform to the height it is desired to place the girders. U-bolts B embracing the posts and passing through the girders, complete the connection of the latter -to the posts.

The brake devices shown in Fig. 1, and let'- tered M, form no part of the present invention.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by-Letters Patent 1. In an elevated railway, a track compris ing a longitudinally ranging beam having a head at its lower end forming horizontal flanges, and T-rails secured to such flanges at;

T-headsdisposed vertically, keepers passing transversely through the beam and bearing on the said rails, and bolts or rivets passing through the keepers, the rails, and the flanges on the beam, substantially as described.

3. In an elevated railway structure, the combination with supporting posts, of adjustable girders in the form of I-beams, said girders having their flanges cut away at one side to receive the posts, and clamped to the latter, substantially as described.

JOHN N. VALLEY.

Witnesses:

J. L. MCAULIFFE, O. SEDGWIOK.

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