US93909A - Improved railway rail-splice - Google Patents

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amenant.

JOHN C. RUPKPfOF-NEWIARK, DELAWARE.

Letters Patent No. 93,909, dated August 17, 1869.

IMPROVED RAILWAY RAIL-SPLICE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all wh om it may concern Be it knorm that I, JOH'N C. RBPP, f Newark, in the county of New Castle, and State of Delaware, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Railroad-- Ghairs; an'd I do hereby declare the following to lbey a full, clear, and exact description of the same suicient to enable others skilledin the art to which my invention appertains, to make and use the y same,- reference being had to the aecolnpanyingdrawing, forming part of this speciation, in which- Figure l is a transverse vertical section.

Figure 2 is a side elevation.

Figures 3 and 4 are detailed views, to be hereinafter 'more fully referred to.

,My invention consists in certain improvements in railroadpliairs, `hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the drawings- A A represent the contiguous ends of two. rails, resting onthe base-plate B, having angular flanges a b at the sides.

OC are the side-supports, which rit up under the head of the rail, and under the overhanging parts b of the side-anges a. b. Y

These supports C are inade tapering; that is, larger at one end fthan at theother. '.lhey are driven in at the sides of the jointfrom opposite directions, so as to wedge in and bind the rails tightly.

The fastening-bolts D D, pass through the web of the rail, and through the slots c c in the side-supports' C C. On the ends opposite the heads d, are formed screw-threads.

E E are washers, placed on the bolts I).

These washers are formed with points e e, which, by Contact with or slight-ly penetrating the supports C, prevent the washersfrom turning.

A t' is a curvedispring, secured at one'end to the outer face of the washer E, and having at its free end aprojeotion which acts asa pawl, and engages with ratohetteethformed on the inner face of anut, F, screwed on to the bolts D, againstthe washers E.

This spring allows the nut to be screwed up, but prevents it from jarring loose.

To release the spring-from' engagement with the teeth, a key or some small instrument must be insert- 1 ed to press back the pawl, while the nut is being unsorewed.

The slots c, through which the fastening-bolts pass, permit the tapering supports to be driven up when they become loose.

The parts G may be spiked to the ties, if desired.

I 'am aware of the patent granted to J. \V. Draper, dated September 4, 1866, for improvements in railroad-eh airs, which somewhat resemble the several feat-l 'ures of my invention, and this invention I hereby disclaim; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Let-ters Patent, is

The tapering side-supports G O, provided with the elongated slots c c, by `means of which said supports can be driven up Vor tightened without removing the bolts D, in combination with the base-plate B, having angular flanges a l), at the sides, all arranged, oonlstructeil, an`d operated in the manneland for the pur-A pose set forth.

The above signedl by me, this"2'th` day of March,

JOHN o. RUPP.

[Witnesses:

J ons Wrannnsnnur, PHIL. F. LAMnR.

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