US310234A - Street-railway track - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

F. J. UNDERWOOD.

STREET RAILWAY TRACK.

No. 310,234. Patented Jan; 6, 1885 [5011. B312, 1C /3 7c 1 d 2B I Sill/1%,!!!

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FLAVIUS J. UNDERWOOD, OF NORTH SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI.

STREET-RAILWAY TRACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 110,310,234, dated January 6, 1885.

Application filed August 31, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FLAVIIIS J. UNDER- WOOD, a citizen of the United States, residing at North Springfield, in the county of Greene and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvement-s in Street-Railway Tracks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My inventionisa new and useful compound wood and iron rail for street-railways.

The object of my invention is to provide for the use of a T-rail on street-railways, and to make a track on which the car will move easily, and at the same time save expense and provide a railway easilycrossed by wagons and other vehicles. These objects I attain by means of the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figures 1, 2, and 3 are sectional views of the device; Fig. 4., a detail view of the railway.

A is a T-rail, made of iron or other suitable material.

B B are rails, best made of wood, and held to the ties O by means of spikes Z) b, they being bolted together through the T- rail by a bolt, (1, as shown in Fig. 1. The outer rail, B, is made about the same height as the T-rail A, and with a beveled top, 71, sloping from the inside outward and downward, as shown, and being of wood it permits a wagon or other vehicle to pass over the track at a small angle with itself with ease, and thus avoids the slipping and sliding of vehicles in crossing street-railways, as is now the case. The inner side of the rail B is made straight, as shown at c, Fig. 2, but preferably cut to tit the groove of the T-rail, as shown at t, Figs. 1 and'3. The inner rail, B, is made of similar material as the outer, and to answer the same purposes. The upper edge is beveled, slanting outward, as at f, and upward toward the T-rail, and with a groove, f, cut out next to the T- rail the de sired size for the flange of the car-wheel, but best out beveled clear across, as shown at g, Fig. 3. In either case the side next to the T- rail may be cut straight, as shown at 6, Fig. 2; but I prefer to cut it to fit the groove of the T- rail, as shown at 2', Figs. 1 and 3.

The T- rail may be spiked to the ties, and the rails B B spiked also to the ties, as shown in Fig. 2; but it is preferable to have the T rail made smaller and save material, and to make the other rails to fitit to give it strength, and to bolt them together and spike the outer rails, B B, to the ties, as shown in Fig. 1. Over the tics G earth or other suitable mate rial, D, is placed.

The compound rail, as above described, is stiffer than the T-rail now in use, and may be used with but little inconvenience to vehicles upon any street, and is much better than the street-railway track now in use.

I am aware that it is not new to construct a T-rail, or to construct arail for railroads consisting of a T- rail with two wooden rails fitted beneath and on the side, so as to give a vertical and lateral support to the T-rail, or to construct a rail for railroad-crossings consisting of a T-rail with wooden rails on each side, one of which has a guard-iron for strengthening the T- rail. I do not-,therefore, claim such construction, broadly; but,

Having thus described the use and construction of myinvention, whatIclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A streetrailway rail composed of a T- rail, resting upon and spiked to the cross-ties O, and two wooden rails, B B, bolted together by bolts passing horizontally through the said T-rail, which is placed between them, the outer wooden rail being beveled from a point next to and on a line level with the top of the T rail outward and downward, and the inner rail, B, beveled from a point next to and as near the T-rail as the flange of the car-wheel will permit, all arranged and constructed for using the T- rail upon streetrailways, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, in a street railway rail, of a T-rail, spiked to the cross-ties G, with two wooden rails, B B, also spiked to the said cross-ties, and bolted to each other by bolts extending through the said T- rail, the outer one extending to the top of the T- rail, the inner one extending as near the top of the T-rail as the flange of the car-wheel will permit, all constructed and arrangedsubstantially as and for the purpose set forth.

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

FLAVIUS J. UNDERWOOD.

Witnesses:

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