US952959A - Splice-bar. - Google Patents

Description

A/W. STRIGKEBW SPLICE BAR.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 27, 1909.

Patented 122, 1910.

inafter fully described and claimed.

vented new and, useful Improvements in ively obviated.

. UNITED sTAr s PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT W. STRICKER, 0F LAKE,BIE INTON, MINNESOTA.

SPLICE-BAR.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT Srmonnn, 'a'citizen of the United States of America residing at Lake Benton, in the county ot Lincoln and State of Minnesota, have in- Splice-Bars, of which the following is a specification.

' This invention relates to splice bars for railroad rails and the primary object of the same is to rovide a joint having structural features w ii'ch will overcome the defects of the ordinary joints as to noise and jar incidental to the rolling stock movin thereover and loosening the arts of the oint itself, thereby obviating amage to the rails and injury to the car wheels, as well as inconvenience and danger to the traveling public.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as ,the description progresses, the invention resides in the novel construction and arrangement of parts here- In the accompanyin drawing there has been illustrated a simple and preferred embodiment of the invention, and in which:

Figure '1 is a transverse sectional view upon the line 1-1 Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the device showing the same engaging a pair of rails. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same.

In the accompanying drawing the numeral 1 designates the meeting ends of a pair of rails. These rails lare constructed in the ordinary manner, being provided with a head 2, web 3 and a base flange 4.

The numeral 5 designates the chair for the base flange of the rails 1. This chair 5 comprises a substantially rectangular fiattened metallic member having its base or body enlarged and its longitudinal edges upstanding or offset as' at 6. The ties 7 of the road bed are incut to provide a suitable pocket or receptacle for the chair and its descent with the upper face of the horizontal flattened surface of'the chair 5 will be in alinement with the top of the tie 7, so that the rail members 1 opposite their jointure or point of connection may lie directly upon the ties-and not be interfered with by the chairs 5 and also to provide means whereby the lateral movement of the railsis efiect- The numeral 8 designates the inner plates.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar. 22, 1910.

Application filed July 27, 1909. Serial No. 509,945.

As both of these plates are substantially similar in construction, the reference numerals applied to the different portions of one of the plates may be taken as equally applicable to the opposite plate. Each of these plates 8 comprises an overlying flange 9. This flange 9 is adapted to engage the base flange 4, adjacent one side of theweb 3 of each of the rails 1 and the said flange is provided with an extension 10 having a plurality of openings each of which being adapted for the reception of a suitable spike 11, or other retaining device. Integrally formed with the overlying flange 9 is a ver= tical extension 12. adapted to engage one faceof the web '3 and to underlie the head 2 of the rail members 1. The vertical members 12 as well as the webs 3 of the rails 1 are each provided with a plurality of spaced openings and these openmgs are adapted for the reception of suitab e and the rails are securely connected together. i

From the above description, taken in con-.

This extension 12 is retaining elements whereby the plates struction within the scope of the following claim may be resorted to if desired.

1' claim The combination with a railroad rail and ties therefor, the ties *bein each provided with spaced pockets, of a c air for the rail, said'chair comprising a horizontally straight body portion of 'a thickness equaling the depth of the pocket of the tie, the longitudinal edges of the chair being each provided with vertical ofl'sets of a size equaling the thickness of the edges of the base flanges of the rail and which they are adapted to contact, fish plates for the rail,:the said plates each comprising a flange portion adapted to overlie the flanges of the rail and havinga vertical extension adapted to be positioned beneath the head of t e-rail, the overlying flanges of each of the fish plates having their under faces provided with a vertica 'these extending portions, and retaining ele- In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence bf two witnesses, -ALBERT W. STRIGKER.

Witnesses:

CHAS. E. LAVESSON, OseAR TRAUTMAN.

ofl'setfiportion adapted toengage the verti-: cal 0 set edge of the chair and being extended a suitable distance beyondthe said I edges of the chair, securing elements for l ments adapted to secure the vertical-menu bers of the fish plates to'the web of the rail.

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