US174248A - Improvement in railroad-rail joints - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

SAMUEL 'r. HUGHES, or NEWBURG, oHIo.

IMPROVEMENT IN RAILROAD-RAIL JOINTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 174,248, dated February 29, 1876; application filed 1 February 1, 1876. v

To all whom it may concernn Be it known that I, SAMUEL T. HUGHES, of Newburg, in the-county of L'uyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvement in Railroad- Rail Joints; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the 7 the provision of a joint of a very strong and durable character; a joint in which bolts and nuts are entirely dispensed with, and the' ordinary rail-spikes alone employed to secure all the parts firmly together, and a joint which will preserve the ends of the rails frombeing battered by concussion of the wheels of cars,

all as hereinafter fully described.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, A A designate the adjacent ends of two railroad-rails, and B B the fish-plates, havingtheir lower edges flanged outwardly, as at c 0, and the flanges notched or recessed midway between the ends of the plates, as at d. The rails do-notmeet, but are separated by a short section, 6, of equal height and width with the main'rails, formingacontinuation thereof, but additionally flanged at d d to receive and retain the fishplates, which are slid longitudinally behind said flanges. The base of section 6 is recessedor notched, as at e, to coincide with the notches in the fish-plate flanges. place, they are firml secured by means of the two spikes ff, which are driven into the ties through the notches d 0, so that their heads shall rest on the portion of the fish-plate flanges lying back of the notches. The joint may be readily removed by displacing the spikes.

The advantages of the improvement described, in point of cheapness, strength, and other desirable qualities, are so apparent as to require no argument. It is but to be remarked that the results of expansion and contraction are equally divided between the two subjoints or divisions separating the main rails and. intervening section hence the battering of the ends of the rail consequent upon large openings is prevented. The fastening may, if desired, be used Without the section 0, more than one spike on each side being then used.

I claim 1. The combination of therails A A, flanged and notched fishplates B B, and spikes f f, substantially as described.

2. The flanged and notched fish-plates B B, and flanged section 0, in combination with the rails A A, substantially as described.

3. The flanged supplementary rail'section 6, adapted to receive and hold the fish-plates B B, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that 1 claim the foregoing, I hereunto set my hand this 8th day of January, 1876.

, SAMUEL T.JHUGHES.

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