Improvements relating to the Permanent Way of Railways.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 29th July, 1890-Accepted, 30th Aug., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Permanent Way of Railways.
I, JAMES MARTIN PRICE, of No. 17.19 North 18th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, United States of America, Insurance Solicitor, 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 to railway supports having metallic stringers and ties, and
consists of the combination of a sries of two or more truncated pyramids with bases
and summits lying in two planes parallel the one to the other, and with bases con-
tinuous between these pyramidal shapes or sections, with cross ties firmly attached
thereto by suitable fastenings-as herein set forth.
This stringer supports upon its heads, the rail between elevated ridges or edges
running longitudinally of the stringer, which stretches as to its length beneath the
rail while the cross the attached to it lies transversely to the track, and by ridges
or elevations upon its surface maintains the track at gauge distance, thoroughly
preventing the spreading of the rails.
The heads of the stringer may be made in number equal to or less or greater
than the number per rail of the wooden cross ties now used, according as the
heads and feet of the stringer are lengthened or shortened, or the angle of the sides
of the truncated pyramids composing it shall approach more or less nearly to a line
vertical to their adjacent base, by decrease or increase of the obtuse angle between
base and side.
The object of the invention is to obtain great strength and elasticity with but
moderate use of metal.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 represents a longitudinal vertical section of a portion of a railway support
and cross the embodying my invention.
Figure 2 represents a longitudinal vertical section of a cross tie on a reduced
scale.
Figure 3 represents a top view of portion of the tie shown in figure 2.
Figure 4 represents a transverse vertical section on line a, a, figure 1.
Figure 5 represents a vertical section on line y, y, figure 2.
Figure 6 represents a vertical section on line =, z, figure 3.
Figure 7 represents a section of a modification of the part shown in figure 6.
Figure 8 represents a side elevation of a portion of a
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stringer and the base
Figure 9 represents a transverse vertical section of the parts shown in figure 8.
Figure 10 represents a partial side elevation, and partial vertical section of the
adjacent stringers and fastenings therefor.
Figure 11 represents a perspective view of the fastening device shown in
figure 10.
Figure 12 represents vertical sections of various check pieces that may be
employed.
Figure 13 represents vertical sections of various cross ties embodying my
invention.
Figure 14 represents a view of portion of figure 1, on an enlarged scale.
Figure 15 represents a horizontal section on line a¹, a' figure 14, with a section
broken away.
Figure 16 represents a vertical section of a inorlification.
Figure 17 represents a perspective view of portion of figure 16, said figures 16, 17
being on enlarged scales.

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Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures,
A designates a metallic cross tie between which and the rail B, are the heads
metallic stringer D, which is of the form of a series of truncated folds or pyramids or
convolutions with raised sides D'. The aforesaid parts as herein described and shown,
are also described and shown 'in another application made by me for United States
Letters Patent, for Improvements in supports for railroad rails, filed December 3,
1888, Serial No. 292,486.
The cross tie has sloping or inclined ends, and also depending or drooping sides E,
forms of which latter are shown in figures 5 and 13, and is thickened on its underside
at the portion F, below the heads of the stringer,. and is furthermore formed with
ribs G at the side of the seats H, which receive the heads of the stringers.
J designates the cheek pieces which embrace the base of the rail, and rest upon
the heads of the stringers, and are held in position by means of bolts K, which pass
through said check pieces, the heads of the stringers and the contiguous portions
of the cross-ties. Some of the cheek pieces have depending sides or flanges J,
which embrace the slanting side of the stringer, as most clearly shown in figure 4.
Proper ballast is employed, the same being embraced by the sides or flanges E
of the cross ties, which, in conjunction with the stringers, provide strong and
ample anchorage for the track, and support it against vertical and longitudinal
strain.
The stringers rest upon grooved or channeled stretchers L, underlying and
embracing the feet of the same, and bolted or otherwise secured thereto, see figures 8
and 9, said stretchers being serviceable in soft places, and on high embankments
where additional precaution may be desired.
Interposed between the ends of adjacent stringers is a fastening piece M, which is
of the form of an inverted truncated pyramid, so as to conform to the shape of the
slanting sides of the stringer D, its upper end having shoulders N, which embrace
the base of the rail, see figures 10 and 11.
In figures 14 and 15, show means for preventing creeping of the rail, while
however, providing for expansion and contraction thereof, the same consisting of
tongues P in the cheek pieces, the same entering lengthened grooves or recesses
the rail. Each tongue and groove may be one, two or more in number as desired.
To be used near the middle of each rail.
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For bridges and elevated roads, I employ the truss R, shown in figures 16 and 17,
the head of the stringer resting upon the head of said truss, the latter being employed
in lieu of a cross tie. In this case, I use a tie-rod S, the end of which rests in a
depression T, and is secured by the bolts K, which unite the check pieces and stringer,
he said tie-rod passing from rail to rail.
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 :-
1st. As a new article of manufacture, a trussed metallic stringer with longi-
tudinal ridges and a central depression and formed in transverse corrugations of
parallel summit and base, substantially as described.
2nd. A stringer for supporting a railroad-rail, formed of metal with longitudinal
ridges or clevations and depressions and crimped or corrugated transversely into
trusses shaped like a truncated pyramid alternately inverted, substantially as
described.
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3rd. A trussed metallic stringer with a longitudinal ridge at each edge forming
a countersunk bed for the rail, in combination with transverse clamps for holding
the rail in place, substantially as described.
4th. A metallic convoluted stringer with elevated edges creased into truncated
pyramids, with flat heads or summits, and feet or bases, in combination with trans-
verse metallic ties bolted either to its heads or bases, or to both, substantially as
described.

page_text: 5th. A metallic stringer convoluted into folds like truncated pyramids with raised
edges, and running lengthwise under the rail which it supports, in combination
with metallic transverse ties bolted to the summits or heads and bases or feet of the
stringer.
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6th. A trussed metallic stringer, in combination with base-bars, substantially as
described.
7th. A metallic stringer formed of trusses, in combination with a clamp, and with
a bed plate intermediate of the rail and truss, said clamp connecting the rail, bed
plate and-truss, substantially as described.
8th. A trussed metallic stringer transversely corrugated into truncated pyramids
connected at the base, in combination with a rail above and a horizontal stretcher
below running longitudinally, and with transverse clamps for securing the rails,
substantially as described.
9th. A trussed metallic stringer corrugated transversely into truncated pyramids,
with an elevated edge on each outer surface running longitudinally, in combination
with clamps and cheek pieces to which the elevate edges give a bearing, holding,
their inner surfaces firmly against the edge of the flange and the web of the rail,
substantially as described.
10th. A trussed metallic stringer having elevations and depressions, in combination
with a bed plate resting on one of said elevations, and a clamp adapted to embrace
said hed-plate and stringer, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
11th. A trussed metallic stringer, tie-rods connected with the stringer, bolts for
securing the tie rods to the stringer, and a cheek piece for stringer and rails,
substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.
12th. A trussed metallic stringer, a tie-rod connected to the base thereof, a bolt
and clamp for securing the tie-rod in place, a bed plate resting on the stringer, and a
tie-rod embracing the same, and having cheek pieces for engaging the flange of the
rail, substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.
13th. A trussed metallic stringer, tie-rods, a bolt for securing the tie-rods, and a
bed plate, substantially as described.
14th. A metallic cross tie with its. end bent down below its central plane, and
ridged or corrugated above and below longitudinally, with mid-rib thickened under
the part of its upper surface, which furnishes a bed for the stringer crossing it,
substantially as described.
15th. A metallic cross tie formed with one or more thin ridges rising above the
surface near its ends, which drop or decline from its central level, these elevations
inclosing a flattened seat or bed, a stringer baving a head resting on said seat, the
cross tie being strengthened at that spot by an under lying mid-rib thickened there,
and tapering out to the ends of the cross tie, said parts being combined substantially
as described.
16th. A metallic cross-tie with ends drooping outside the track, strengthened by a
mid-rib below the rail, and by thin ridges of metal at its edge, in the middle, above
and below which intermit above to make a flat bed, a stringer having a head resting
on said bed, and a rail supported on said stringer said parts being combined
substantially as described.
17th. An undulating metallic stringer, with flat heads or summits resting upon a
thin metallic cross tie, with ends strengthened by a ridge or ridges above them and
outside the stringers, and by a mid-rib below, thickened under the stringer in com-
bination with said cross tie underlying it, the rail itself resting on its upper
surface, and the cheek pieces, bolts and nuts fastening the whole together, substantially
as described.
18th. A series of cheek pieces resting upon the outer edge of the stringer and
the flange of the rail, each furnished with a foot or slanting projection dipping below
that edge, and the under surface of the flange, and thus constituting a wedge
between them to keep the rail in its place, said parts being combined substantially as
described.
19th. A series of cheek pieces with inside face or edge bearing upon the flange

page_text: of the rail vertically, or extended also to the web of the rail, and with feet varying
in width, so that the cheek pieces may be made in pairs, adjusting themselves to the
flange of the rail upon a curve, the base of the rail and the feet of the pair of cheek
pieces occupying and filling the depressed centre of the head of the stringer, said
parts being combined substantially as described.
20th. A cheek piece covering the entire edge of the head of the stringer, and
overlapping its sides between the ridges on these and the edge of the flange,
substantially as described.
21st. A cheek piece covering the entire edge of the head of the stringer, overlapping
its sides, and engaging by one or more vertical ridges on its under side with a notch
or notches in the edge of the flange of the rail, and about midway of the rail, to
prohibit creeping and prevent dangerous movement of the rail by expansion or
contraction, substantially as described.
22nd. A fastening for the adjacent ends of two stringers made of metal, in outline
like an inverted truncated pyramid, with shoulders engaging the rail, its base
sitting upon the depressed centre of the end of each stringer, substantially as
described.
23rd. An undulating stringer having elevated edges forming a groove on the
central portion, in combination with a rail resting in said groove, and a cross tie
having depending sides, the head of said stringer resting on said cross tie,
substantially as described.
24th. A horizontal metallic stretcher with central depression just so wide as to
contain the feet of the metallic stringer to which it is bolted, in combination with
the cross tie, stringer, rail, cheek pieces and bolts, substantially as described.
25th. A metallic stringer with elevated edges running lengthwise under the rails,
in flattened pyramidal corrugations, in combination with the rail and check pieces
herein described sitting on it, and with a transverse metallic cross tie with drooping
ends attached beneath to the stringer, ribbed longitudinally in places, and strengthened
by a thickened mid-rib under the stringer, and with a metallic channeled stretcher
embracing the feet of the stringer, with the necessary bolts and nuts which bind all
parts together, substantially as described.
26th. The combination of an undulating stringer with heads having raised sides, a
cross tie with ribs forming a seat for said heads, a rail resting on said stringer,
cheek pieces resting on the raised sides of the head and on the base of the rail, and
fastening bolts passing through the cheek pieces, stringer and cross tie, substantially
as described.
27th. A metallic stringer with edges elevated above the centre, its folds running
longitudinally with the rail which it supports, up and down through the ballast, in
combination with a thin metallic cross tie supporting its heads or summits, with
ends drooping outside the rails and ridged or ribbed above and below in place to
add strength thereto, and cheek pieces of the order stated, substantially as described.
Dated this 25th day of July 1890.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.