Improvement in or connected with Railway Rails.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 4th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 19th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in or connected with Railway Rails.
We, WALTER VARNEY, of 17 Quadrant Grove, Malden Road, Kentish Town,
Middlesex, Inventor and EDWARD WILLIAM JOSEPH HIEATT, of Covent Garden
Market, Middlesex, Salesman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to the construction of railway rails with projecting end
lips, over which caps can be arranged with heads forming a continuation of the
rails tread, the lower parts of said caps being provided with flanges for attachment
to sleepers, or other permanent sub-structure.
By this invention, the rail can be continuous in its tread, fish plates are dispensed
with, the line improved, and maintained in efficiency with less labour than at present
and repairs more easily effected when needed.
The springyness of the rail is ensured, as at present, for ease of travelling.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Walter Varney and Edward William Joseph Hieatt.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in or connected with Railway Rails.
We, WALTER VARNEY, of 17 Quadrant Grove, Malden Road, Kentish Town,
Middlesex, Inventor and EDWARD WILLIAM JOSEPH HIEATT of Covent Garden
Market, Middlesex, Salesman, 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 :-
This invention relates to the construction of railway rails with projecting end
lips, over which, caps can be arranged with heads forming a continuation of the
rails tread, the lower part of said caps being provided with flanges for attachment
to sleepers, or other permanent sub-structure.
By this invention, the rail can be continuous in its tread, fish plates are dispensed
with, the line improved, and maintained in efficiency with less labour than at
present, and repairs more easily effected when needed. The springyness of the rail
is ensured as at present for ease of travelling.
Our invention will be clearly understood by the annexed drawings, in which at
Figure 1 we show two ends of rails and a cap in perspective elevation with which
system the usual chair can be employed for fastening the cap down upon a sleeper,
whether laid longitudinal or crosswise.
Figure 2 represents such a cap and ends of rails, similar to those shown at
Figure 1, in position on a sleeper, each being provided with slot holes for the
reception of cottar or other shape of keys, one of which is indicated at Figure 3.
Any method of securing this cap down to the sleeper can be adopted.
Figure 4 shows a flanged cap and the ends of two rails slightly apart, to indicate
the lips or rail ends which occupy a position within the cap, the flanges being so
arranged that they can be fastened down to the sleeper by ordinary dog spikes
or bolts.
Figure 5 represents a flanged cap bolted down to a sleeper, and the rail ends in
position resting upon the sleeper, the cap serving not only to keep the rail upright
but true to gauge.

page_text: It will be seen by the figures, that if each end of the rails be similarly prepared,
they only require to rest upon a sleeper, the cap being the means by which they
become fixed.
The rails are free for expansion and contraction under changes of temperature
and do not affect the caps which alone are fastened to the sleepers.
A, A, are the rails. B, B, ends projecting therefrom. C, the cap to pass over
and down upon the rail ends, the upper part coinciding with the rails and forming
part of the tread, upon which the engines and coaches run. D, D, cottars if the
rails are provided with slot holes. E, E, flanges to caps. F, F, sleepers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
The construction of rails with projecting ends, over which, caps can be fitted for
securing the rails in position upon sleepers, as set forth and substantially as shown
by the annexed drawings.
TI
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Walter Varney and Edward William Joseph Hieatt.