Improvements in or connected with Railway Rail Chairs.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 21st Oct., 1891-Accepted, 21st Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Railway Rail Chairs.
I HORACE HENRY CHARLES SINTZENICH of Number 88 Bellevue Avenue in
the City of Toronto in the County of York and Province of Ontario in the
Dominion of Canada Civil Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention consists chiefly in a railway chair having a hollow under the rail
whereby the rails will rest throughout upon the ties and not upon the chairs.
The ends of the chairs rest on the upper face of the tie and preferably are
screwed down to it. Preferably I use the improvement in connection with chairs
having a movable clutch as shewn and described in a certain Patent granted to me
by Her Majesty dated the Seventh day of September 1886 and numbered 11,369.
Preferably in combination with the hollowed chair I use a divided tie or coupled
ties as hereinafter more particularly described.
Should it be desired to place these chairs on ordinary ties such as are now in
use a cutting must be made in the proper place so as to lower the connecting bed
leaving a hollow between its lower surface and the surface of the cutting.
Reference being made to drawings marked Figures one (1) and two (2): A is
the bed or connecting piece forming part of the chair (preferably made of cast
iron) connecting the two ends or lips of the chair. a, a, are the ends of the bed
resting on the tie or ties. a, a, a, a, are screws which hold the chairs to the ties.
b. b. c. c. represent the space between the twin ties or the hollow cut in a single tie.
e. is
d. d', are respectively the fixed and movable jaws, of clutches, of the chair.
the screw holding the movable clutch.
Preferably I place one tie so that it projects one foot beyond the other on one
side of the track. The twin tie projects the same distance on the other side of the
track. These ties can afterwards be shifted and the relative projections reversed.
As spikes, screws, or other fastenings in time become loose in the wood it is
desirable to find new places on the ties for refastening the rails. This is facilitated
by the twin ties adjustable as described.
The four screws in each tie on each side of the chairs will so bind them as to
make the twin ties virtually one tie for all practical purposes of steady support,
when placed in good ballast, well rammed on all sides with the above economical
advantages over a single tie.
What I claim as my invention is :---
First A railway rail chair having a hollow under the rail so that the tread of
the rail does not rest upon the bed of the chair.
Second A railway rail chair having a movable clutch in combination with a
hollow in the chair under the rail substantially as shewn.
Third: A railway rail chair fastened by three, four or more screws to coupled
ties substantially as described in combination with a hollowed bed or connecting
piece under the tread of the rail substantially as described.
Fourth I claim the railway rail chair having a hollow under the rail and a
movable clutch in combination with ties in pairs.
Fifth A railway rail chair having a hollow under the rail and a movable
clutch in combination with a recessed tie substantially as described.
Dated this 27th day of December 1890.
[Price 8d.]
HORACE HENRY CHARLES SINTZENICH.

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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
..Improvements in or connected with Railway Rail Chairs.
I HORACE HENRY CHARLES SINTZENICH of No. 88 Bellevue Avenue in the
City of Toronto in the County of York, and Province of Ontario in the Dominion
of Canada, Civil Engineer, 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 is an improvement upon the railway rail chair forming the subject
matter of the Specification of former Letters Patent granted to me dated the 7th
day of September 1886 and numbered 11369.
The general principle of my present invention includes a chair constructed to
clamp the rail and to rest upon the sleepers and also to permit the rail to rest upon
the sleepers.
The particular construction of the rail chair is shown in the accompanying
drawings in which
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the rail chair with the rail clamped in
position.
Figure 2 is an end elevation of Figure 1 the rail being removed.
Figure 3 is a plan of the upper side of Figure 1 with the rail removed.
The construction illustrated by the drawings is as follows: The rail is shown
at R and the level of the upper side of the sleeper is shown at A B in Figure 1.
The chair is composed of two main parts. The first part is shown at C D. The
part D is in the form of a lug extending towards the rail, its inner vertical face
being adapted to fit against the web and under the head of the rail. The rear or
outer part of this lug is extended with a flat under surface laterally as shown at E
on each side. These extensions are fitted to bear upon two sleepers or upon a
single channelled sleeper as hereinafter described.. The part C of this piece
extends underneath the rail in a curved form, as shown in Figure 1 leaving a
hollow space underneath the rail R but extending upwards on the opposite side
thereof forming an abutment F which is provided with ears E' similar to the
ears E just described.
The extension of C forming the abutment F is recessed at G and is fitted
thereby to receive the downwardly curved outer end of the jaw or block H the
inner end of which is the same shape as the inner end of the part D. These two
parts D and H form jaws of which D is fixed in its relation to the part C and H is.
movable. A threaded bolt J passes through a hole in the outer end of the jaw H
and into a hole tapped in the part C, this threaded bolt when in place holding the
movable jaw H by means of the screw the parts being clamped securely on the
rail.
Railway rail chairs constructed as hereinbefore described may be used with
sleepers of the ordinary kind now in general use in which case it is only necessary
to make a cutting or channel in the proper place so as to lower therein the
dependent part C of the rail chair leaving a clearance space between its lower
surface and the bottom of the said channel. Or sleepers may be employed in pairs
set closely together allowing the dependent part C of the rail chair to descend in
the space left between the two sleepers. In this latter case I prefer to place the
sleepers so that each projects one foot beyond the other at opposite sides of
the track. By this arrangement the sleepers can afterwards be shifted and the
respective projections reversed. As spikes screws or other fastenings in time
become loose in the wood it is desirable to find new places on the sleepers for
refastening the rail chairs. This is facilitated by the arrangement of twin sleepers
adjustable as described.
The lateral extensions or ears E E' have holes K to receive the screws or spikes
inserted to hold them down to the sleepers. By this construction the chair is

page_text: supported on the sleepers or sleeper, the rails are securely clamped and held in the
chairs and at the same time have the advantage of the elastic support derived
from resting directly upon the sleepers.
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
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1. A railway rail chair composed of two main parts one having an extension and
fitted to bear against the web of the rail and provided with lateral extensions to
bear upon the sleeper or sleepers an extension as C underneath the rail leaving a
space between it and the bottom of the rail and the level of the rail seat and
extending upwards on the opposite side of the rail forming an abutment, said abut-
ment also having lateral extensions bearing on the sleeper or sleepers and a
movable jaw bearing against the web of the rail, with means for holding it to the
abutment these parts being combined and arranged in relation to the space within
or between the sleepers all substantially as described.
2. A railway rail chair consisting of the part C D having extensions E an abut-
ment F provided with a recess G and extensions E the part C being below the
bottom of the rail with a space between it and the bottom of the rail in combination
with a movable jaw H formed with its outer end turned down and fitted to the
recess G, the threaded bolt and the sleepers or sleeper having a space to receive
the dependent part C all substantially as described.
Dated this 21st day of October 1891.
AYRTON & THOMAS,
Agents for the Applicant.