US1465914A - Rail joint - Google Patents

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Aug. 2l, 1923. 1,465,914

l M. Kiss i RAIL JOINT Filed Dec. 1, 1922 2 sheets-sheet@ M. KISS RAIL JOINT Aug. 21, 1923.

2 'Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Dec. l, 1922 mvEN'rqi ATroRNEY 'Mike Kals-.5'

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l MIKE KISS, or MOLINE, ILLINOIS.

i RAIL-JOINT.

Application led December l, 1922. Serial No. 604,366.

State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rail Joints, ofwhich the following is a specicationQ The object of my said inventionv isv the provisionof a rail joint' adapted tobe expeditiously and easily fastened to a tie or ties and to strongly hold and embrace the adjoining portions of rails, and this without interfering with the expansion Vand contraction of the rails.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in the ,improvement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification Figure l is a perspective Showing my novel joint yin use.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the same.v

Figure 3 is a cross-section taken in the plane indicated by the line 3-3 of Figure 2 and showing the loose connection of the interposed section to the body of the joint.

Figure 4 is an inverted plan view of the joint.V

Figure 5 is a side elevation of a modification.

Figure 6 is an inverted plan view of said modification. l

Similar numerals designate corresponding parts in Figures l to 4 to which reference will first be made.V

The rails l are preferably of the ordinary wellknown construction, each including a base, a web and a head. v

My novel joint comprises a body 2, and a section 3v in the saidbody 2. The said section 3 is formed of the same material as the rails l and corresponds in cross-section shape and size to the rails and like the rails has a base, a web and a head, as best shown in Figure 3. VIn the preferred Vembodiment of my invention the section 3 is connectedV to the upstanding parallel portions 4 of the body 2 through the medium of an appropriate transverse connector; also, the section 3 and body 2 are connected by upright devices 5". f

The joint body is preferably formed in one piece, and in addition to the said parallel upstanding portions 4 the body comprises a rail base receiving portion 6, side ribs 7 which extend from .points adjacent' to the upper edges of the portions 4 to pointsk outwardly beyond the side edges of the portion 6, and a base 8, brazed or otherwise fixed to the portion 6. VThe outer' ends of the side ribs? are bifurcated asdesignated yby 9 forthe receptionV of spikes that ffasten the joint to a tie or ties.` In the embodiment shown lnFigures l and 3'the base 8 Vis arranged under the portion throughout the area of the latter and is provided with lateral portions 8a and 8b, which portions 8a and 8b are disposed under the extended portions of the side ribs 7 and are notched at 10 coincident with the bifurcations 9 Vin the said side ribs. At this point I would have Vit understood that when desired base sections 8"" such as shown in Figures 5 and 6 may be-employed in lieu of the continuous base 8,'the said sections 8C being arranged under the ribbed vportions only of the body and being separated by intervening spaces as illustrated.-

It will be apparent from the foregoing thatrm'y novel joint is simple and inexpensive in vconstruction and isk susceptible of ready installation, and is adapted to strongly join thev rails in such manner that a praccific construction and relative arrangement of parts inasmuch as in the future practice of the invention various changes and modications may be made such'as fall within the scope of my invention Vas defined in my appended claims.

I-Iaving described vmy invention, what I Y claim y and desire to* secure by Letters Patent. isr.- f f l. The combination of the adjoining por- Ytions of two railway rails, and a joint com- I donot'desire however, to be prising a body receiving and joining said portions. a sectionV arranged in the body and interposed betweenthe opposed ends of the rails; said section corresponding in cross-section to the rails and being arranged lfreaoraA Hush therewith, and a transverse Connector effecting Connection of said section to the body. A

2. A rail joint comprising a rail-base re'- oeiving portion, upstanding parallel portions rising from said first-named portion7 transverse rilos extending from pointsadjacent to the upper edges of the upstanding portions outwardly beyond the edges of the rail-base receiving portion and having bifurl0 @ations von their outerfends, and base portions arranged under the rail-base receiving portion' and also arranged under the eX- tended portions of the transverse ribs.

' In testimony'whereof aiiX my signature.

Y MKE KSS.

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