US991365A - Rail-joint. - Google Patents

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RAIL JOINT APPLIUATION FILED MA: 12. 1910.

Patented May 2, 1911.

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FREDERICK POOLE, 01, JEWELL, KANSAS.

RAIL-JOINT.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK POOLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jewell, in the county of Jewell, State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention,

such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to rail chairs and its principal object is to provide a rail chair of improved construction wherein novel means will be employed for holding the rail chair in position on the ties, said chair being further provided with rail engaging means.

The invention consists in general of certain novel details of construction and combination of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and specifically set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views, and :Figure 1 .is a side elevation of a pair of abutting rail-ends having this chair applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a section through such a chair and rail.

The rail chair is supported on the usual ties 10 and is intended to connect the ends of abutting rails 11. This rail chair comprises a base portion 12 which is provided on its lateral edges with a pair of opposed splice bars 13 each having spaced rail engaging portions 14 so arranged that air spaces 15 are left between the rail engaging portions. These rail engaging portions 1 1 are shaped to conform to those portions of the rail wherewith they contact and engage beneath the head, against the web, and on the base of the rails 11 as can be clearly seen by reference to Fig. 2.

The base 12 is provided with longitudinal corrugations 16 which are laterally spaced and which are angular in cross section so as to provide tie engaging edges 17. This base is also provided with lateral downturned flanges 18. Furthermore, the base has spike receiving openings 19 through which pass spikes 20 which secure the base firmly to the ties 10. It will be noted that this peculiar Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 12, 1910.

Patented May 2, 1911.

Serial No. 560,893.

the portions 13 are still projecting straight up from the base, the remainder of the shape being given the chair by further passes through the roll.

There has thus been provided a simple and efficient device of the kind described and for the purpose specified.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

1. In a rail chair, a base having opposed splice bars formed on opposite longitudinal surfaces, said splice bars being provided with spaced rail engaging portions extending longitudinally thereof, and said base being provided with spaced angular corrugations, the spaces between the corrugations constituting rail base supports and the angular under portions of said corrugations forming tie engaging means, said base being further provided with tie engaging ribs along .its under longitudinal edges.

2. In a rail chair, a base having opposed splice bars formed on opposite longitudinal surfaces, said splice bars being provided with spaced rail engaging portions extending longitudinally thereof, and said base being provided with spaced angular corrugations, the spaces between the corrugations constituting rail base supports and the angular under portions of said corrugations forming tie engaging means, said base being further provided with spike receiving open- ,rings, and tie engaging ribs along the under longitudinal edges of said base.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK POOLE.

WVitnesses:

C. R. DENFORD, H. P. PARKER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). C.

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