US760501A - Rail-chair. - Google Patents

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PATEN'I'ED MAY 24, 1904.

G. A. WEBER.

RAIL CHAIR.

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H INH No. 760,501. PATENTBD MAY 24, 1904.

Gf. A. WEBER.

RAIL CHAIR.

APPLIATION FILED FEB. 2, 190.4. NO MODEL.

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Patented may e4, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE."

GEORGE A. WEBER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO WEBER RAILWAY JOINT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEV YORK, N. Y., A OORPORA TION OE VEST VIRGINIA.

RAIL-CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 760,501, dated May 24, 1904.

Application filed February 2, 19011. Serial N0.191,653. (No model.)

1'0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatLGEonen A WEBEE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Chairs, of which the following is a specification accompanied by drawings.

This invention relates to railroad-rail joints, but more particularly to the supporting-chairs or shoe-angles for suoli joints; and the object of the invention is to improve upon the construction of suoli rail-chairs or shoe-angles and increase their strength and efficiency.

Further objects ofthe invention will hereinafter appear; and to these ends the invention consists of a rail-chair embodying the features of construction, combinations of elements,and arrangement of parts,substantially as hereinafter fully described and claimed in this specification and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a transverse sectional view of a rail-joint provided with a rail-chair embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the joint, showing the construction of the chair.

Referring to the drawings, A and B represent the meeting ends of rails supported upon a rail-chair O, having a base-plate I) and upright E extending therefrom.

` To illustrate the invention, in this instance a suitable form of joint is shown in combination with the chair. The joint in this instance is shown insulated, although any kind of a joint may be used with the chair. At each side of the webs of the rails are provided the insulating filling-blocks E, which maybe of wood, and the bolts G are suitably insulated by means of the insulating-sleeves H and washers I. The base of at least one of the rails" is supported upon the insulation J. In this instance improved means are shown for maintaining the insulation-J beneath the rails, a holding' device K being used in the form of a wire,of metal or other suitable material, which is interwoven with or suitably connected to the insulation J and extended up between one of the filling-blocks F and the chair, so that when the parts are clamped together the holding device I( maintains the insulation J in position. The holding device, if of metal, should be provided at one side of the joint only, to prevent completion of the circuit between the rails. At the side of thc joint opposite the upright is arranged a strap L, extending continuously across the joint, suitably insulated by sleeves H and washers I.

The improved chair O is provided with 'a strengthening-Web O to increase the vertical depth or height of the chairV at the portion thereof at which strength is most needednamely, the central portion. As shown and in accordance with this invention, the edge of the base-.plate I) opposite the upright E is centrally bent out of the plane of the base to form the web O. In this instance the web O is bent in the opposite direction from the upright E. In combination with the strengthening-Web O the strengthening rib or iillctP is provided, forming a spiking rib or flange at the juncture between the base and the upright.

The chair made in accordance with this invention is strong at the juncture of the base and upright and is also of increased strength over other chairs at the central portion, Where the greatest strain comes.

Obviously some features of this invention may he used without others, and the invention may be embodied in widely-varying forms.

Therefore, without limiting the invention to the constructions shown and described nor enumerating equivalents, I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, the following:

1. A rail-chair or shoe-angle, comprising a base-plate and an upright extending substantially at right angles from the junction thereJ with, the edge of said base-plate opposite the upright being centrally bent out of the plane of the base, to form a strengthening-web, for substantially the purposes set forth.

2. A rail-chair or shoe-angle, comprising a base-plate and an upright extending substantially at right angles from the junction therewith, the edge of said base-plate opposite the upright being centrally bent in the opposite direction to the upright, to form a strengthenng-web, for substantially the purposes set forth;

3. A rail-chair or shoe-angle, comprising a base-plate and an upright extending ltherefrorn, with a strengthening-rib or spiking'- iange at the outside of the juncture between the base and upright, the edge of said base- IO plate opposite the upright being centrally bent in the opposite direction to the upright, to form a strengthening-web, for substantially the purposes set forth. Y

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribe ing witnesses;

GEORGE A; WEBER.

Witnesses:

OLIN Aa FOSTER, A.k L. OBRIEN.

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