Improvements in Railway and like Rails.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Sept., 1896-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Railway and like Rails.
I, HENRY CANE, of 1 Abermorl is Terrace, Merthyr-Tydvil, in the County of
Glamorgan, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates more particularly to those railway and other rails which are
spiked or similarly secured directly to their sleepers or supports, and has for its
object to so construct the base of these that they will better retain their position
against lateral strain.
For this purpo-e I form on the underside of the buses of the rails one or more
suitable projections, which, when said rails are secured in position, are forced into
the surfaces of the sleepers and so prevent the rails sliding from their proper
position when subjected to side strain.
These projections may be in the form of longitudinal ridges of wedge-shape or
other cross section, or one or more rows of teeth preferably of wedge-shaped section,
or of other form as found most suitable.
Dated this 26th day of March 1896
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
I, HENRY CANE, of Abermorlais Terrace, Merthyr-Tydvil, in the County of
Glamorgan, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
My invention relates more particularly to those railway and other rails which
are spiked or similarly secured directly to their sleepers or supports, and has for its
object to so construct the bases of these that they will better retain their position
against lateral strain.
For this purpose I form on the underside of the base of a rail one or more
suitable projections which, when said rail is secured in position, are forced into the
surfaces of the sleepers and so prevent the rail sliding from its proper position when
subjected to side strain.
These projections may be in the form of longitudinal ridges of wedge-shape, or
other cross section, or one or more rows of teeth preferably of wedge-shaped section,
or they may be of other form as found most suitable.
The accompanying drawings shew how my invention may be carried into practical
effect, but it will be understood that the shape of the projections on the underside
of the bases of the rails may be varied as required.
Of these drawings-Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation, and Fig. 2 a plan of the
underside of a rail baving two longitudinal ridges a of wedge-shaped section formed
on the underside of the base thereof, and Figs. 3 and 4, and 5 and 6 are similar

page_text: views of rails provided with ridges of the same form, but varying in number, whilst
Figs. 7 and 8, instead of longitudinal ridges, the underside of the buse of the rail
is formed with two rows of wedge-shaped teeth b.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
Railway and other rails having ridges or other projections formed on the under-
side of the bases thereof, which when said rails are secured in position will be forced
into the sleepers and so minimise the possibility of said rails sliding from their
proper position when subjected to side strain.
Dated this 12th day of September 1896.
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.