US923331A - Rail-joint. - Google Patents

Description

A. GHRISKE.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22, 1909.

Patented June 1,1909.

gnugntoz Wi in mm ALOIS OHRISKE, OF LADYSMITH, WISCONSIN.

RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 1, 1909.

Application filed March 22, 1909. Serial No. 485,003.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALois OHRIsKE, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Ladysmith, in the county of Rusk and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints; and I do hereby declare the following to be 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, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

'This invention relates to new and useful improvements in rail couplings and comprises various details of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and then specifically defined in the appended claim.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top plan view showing two rails connected together. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of one end of a rail, and Fig. 4 is a cross sec tional view.

Reference now being had to the details ofv the drawings by letter, A designates the tread of a rail and B the web provided with the bolt apertures C, and D is the fiange of the rail. The meeting ends of the two rails are of similar construction. Each tread is cut away, as at A, at an inclination as shown and the opposite edges F of the contracted portion of the web intermediate said cut away portions and the adjacent end are inclined slightly, as shown clearly in the cross sectional view of the drawings.

H, H designate fish plates which have flanges H notched at P for the reception of spikes whereby the fish plates may be fastened to the ties and also provided with apertures J designed to register with apertures C in the web of the rails and through which bolts may be passed. The upright or vertical portion of each fish plate is cut away as at K and the inner ends thereof terminate in the inclined shoulders l corresponding to the inclination of the portions A upon the rails and against which they are adapted to contact. The inner faces 0 of the fish plates are outwardly inclined slightly to correspond with the inclination of the edges F against which they are adapted to contact when the rails are adj usted together in the manner shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

It will be noted upon reference to the side views of the drawings that the under edge of the tread of the rail adjacent to the inclined or cut away part A is adapted to rest upon the cut away portion of the fish plate, thus securely reinforcing the web at such location.

From the foregoing it will be noted that, by the provision of a rail connecting apparatus as shown and described a simple and efficient means is afforded whereby the joints will be broken and afford a smooth tread surface over which the car Wheels may run without jolting and so arranged that the rails may be easily and quickly replaced when desired.

What I claim to be new is A rail joint comprising, in combination with the meeting ends of rails, each having a tread portion with its opposite edges cut away forming an outwardly flaring web portion terminating at its inner ends ininclined shoulders, fish plates having the upper edges thereof recessed and their inner faces outwardly flaring and conforming to the inclination of the outwardly flaring faces of said web, the ends of the recessed portions of said fish plate being inclined and adapted to contact with the inclined shoulders of the rails, the upper edge of the fish plates intermediate its recessed portion being flush with the tread surface of the rail, and portions of the fish plate extending underneath the tread surface of the rail, as shown and described In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALOIS OHRISKE.

Vv itnesses W. E. THOMPSON, LAUREN J. WYMEN.

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