US1104080A - Safety-rail. - Google Patents

Description

J. A. SPEGK.

SAFETY RAIL.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 15, 1914.

1,104,080, Patented July 21, 1914.

UNITED STATES PATENT JAMES A. SPECK, 0F SALEM, OREGON.

SAFETY-RAIL.

1,1o4,oso.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 21, 1914.

Application filed January 15, 1914. Serial No. 812,212.

' Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Rails; and I do hereby declare the following tobe 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 has relation to railway rails and has for its object to provide rails so constructed and joined as to present a continuous and unbroken tread surface for the rolling stock traveling thereover, thus eliminating the usual and objectionable noises made by the latter in passing over a joint between two rails of ordinary construction.

Another object is to provide a noiseless track wherein the adjacent ends of the rails are normally spaced apart suflicient distance to permit free expansion thereof, while the tread surface of the rails is maintained unbroken during contracted condition thereof.

In the accompanying drawings wherein is shown an approved and practical embodiment of the invention,

Figure 1 represents a top plan view of a section of railway track constructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation thereof, and, Fig. 3 represents an end view of the rail and chair movably positioned thereon.

Referring to the drawing in detail wherein similar reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, the numeral 5 indicates the track rails constructed in accordance with my invention and having the ends beveled or cut at an angle approximately relativeto the longitudinal center thereof. The ends of each rail are so beveled that the end surfaces thereof lie in parallel planes. The adjacent ends ofthe two rails are secured together by and supported on a rail chair 6 which may be conveniently slipped back from the end of one rail while the other rail is properly positioned, and subsequently moved into the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Suitably secured bolts 7 are positioned through the parallel portions of the chair 6 and the webs of the rails 5 and are pr0- vided with suitable nuts for securing the rails in operative position.

It will be understood that while I have here shown-a special form of rail chair for securing the ends of the rails together, any other preferred form of chair or fish plate may be substituted therefor.

The adjacent ends of the rails 5 are normally spaced a distance apart as indicated at 8 so as to permit said rails to expand without danger of spreading or buckling. During contracted condition of the track rails 5, the space 8 is obviously increased in width, but even under such conditions the tread surface of the rails is maintained unbroken at the joint owing to the peculiar formation of the ends thereof.

If desired, the portion of the base of the rails adjacent the chair 6 may be formed with parallel slits 9 extending either parallel with or at right angles to the adjacent ends of the chair and intervening metal turned downwardly against said ends to further insure against longitudinal displacement of the chair and to form a lock for this purpose.

W hat I claim is 1. In combination, rails having adjacent ends beveled to present a continuous tread surface, means for securing the ends of the rails in spaced relation, and parallel cuts in the base of said rails adjacent said last mentioned means, said cuts forming lugs of the material therebetween which are bent against the ends of said last mentioned means to form a lock thereagainst.

2. In combination, rails having parallel scarfed ends to form a continuous tread surface, a chair adapted to hold said rails in spaced relationship to each other, said chair having beveled ends, and means on the base of said rails running parallel with the beveled ends of said chair adapted to butt against said ends and lock said chair in operative position.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES A. SPECK.

Witnesses:

MABEL A. DELONG, E. M. PAGE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner 0! Patents, Washington, D. C.

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