US894202A - Rail-joint. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED JULY 28, 1908. 0. P. HANSON.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 20. 1908.

: r the ends of which abut.

of the tread flanges are rabbeted as indicated OSCAR P. HANSON, OF MINNEAPOL IS, MINNESOTA.

LEtAIL-JOIN'1.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 28, 1908.

Application filed. March 20, 1908; Serial No. 422,339.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR P. HANSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints;

'andl do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others'skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to rovide an improved rail joint, and to this en it consists of the novel devices and'combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claim. a q

The invention is illustrated in the accomanying drawings wherein like characters ingicate like parts throughout the several views. I

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a view in side elevation, illustrating the construction of the improved rail joint. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the abutting ends of the alined rails shown in Fig. 1, said rails being separated. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section taken on the line 90 m of Fig. 1'

and is a perspective view of the saddle plate and so-called jointblock.

The numeral 1 indicates two alined rails,

The abutting ends at 2, and the abutting ends of the base flanges are rabbeted as indicated at 3, to form, lap joints. It willbe noted that the lap joint in the tread flanges is. reversely' formed from the lap joint in the base flanges, I

thus holding the abutting ends or the rails 1 against lateral movements with respect to each other. The vertical flanges of the rails 1, adjacent to the la-p joints'2and 3, are 'cut away to aflord' a seat 4, the purpose of which willpresently a pear. The

asefianges'o'f the rails 1 bear n'ectly upon a saddle plate 5 that rests u on adjacent ties,

not shown. Said saddle p ate 5 is provided with suitable openings 6 and notches 6 through which spikesmay be passed for the purpose of securing said saddle plate 5 to the ties. The saddle plate 5 is formed at one. side withan upturned and inwardly extended Web or flange 7 that engages the upper surfaces of the base flanges of the rails 1, which flange is provided with a vertical extension 8 that constitutes a-fish plate ofthe rail joint. This fish plate 8, at itsupper edge, bears against the under surfaces of the tread flanges of the rails 1 and closely engages the vertical webs of the said rails. A joint block 9 is secured to the inside of the intermediate portion of the fish late 8 and is of such size asto completely 1 the seat 4, thereby securing the abutting ends of the rails 1 against vertical movement in respect to each other and forming a support for the abutting and overlapping ends of the tread flanges of the rails 1. ,The saddle late 5, flange 7, fish plate 8 and joint blocl i 9 are preferably cast integral one with the other.

A rail joint constructed in accordance with my invention securely holds the abutting ends of the rails against lateral and vertical movements with respect to each other without the use of bolts. The device described, while simple and of 7'5 small cost, is efficient for the purpose had in view.

What I claim isz p In a rail joint, the combination with alined rails, the abutting ends of which are rabbeted to"form lap joints in the tread flanges and base'flanges of said rails, and a seat formed by cutting away the vertical webs of said a utting ends, of saddle plate underlying the ab tin ends of said rails and having a nsh plate connected thereto-by a flange, and

a joint block secured to said fish plate and ada ted to fit within said seat, substantially as escribed. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OSCAR P. HANSON.

Witnesses:

H. D. KILGORE, M. E. HONEY.

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