Improved Means for Securing Rails to Iron Sleepers.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 19th July, 1899 -Accepted, 19th Aug.,
1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Securing Rails to Iron Sleepers.
I, HUGO BAYER, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, and resident of No. 42,
Friedrichstrasse, Meiderich, in the Empire of Germany, Foreman, do hereby
declare the nature of my said 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 an improved means for securing rails to iron sleepers,
such improvement consisting in the construction of the hook-plate connecting
the rail to the sleeper. The said plate receives, according to this invention, a
bend, so that the two hooks engaging with the sleeper are the same distance
apart as the two holes of the sleeper. After the insertion of the hooks of the
hook-plate in the holes of the sleeper, the bend of the hook-plate is stretched
out, whereby the hooks engage behind the lower side of the sleeper and secure
the hook-plate to the latter.
On the accompanying drawing, such construction is shown.
Fig. 1 is a section through the rail fastening.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the same and
Fig. 3 shows the bent hook-plate disposed in the sleeper.
The securing of the rail a to the sleeper c is effected by the hook-plate b, as
indicated in Figs. 1-3, whilst the two upper hooks formed according to the
foot or base of the rail secure the latter and the two lower hooks, after being
inserted through the holes of the sleeper, fit closely against the rear-part of the
latter and thus secure the rail to the sleeper.
The hook-plate 6 is provided on the sleeper c, as shown in Fig. 3, in the
following manner:
The plate is bent upwardly in the centre until the outer distance of the lower
hooks corresponds to the inner extent of the holes of the sleeper, then inserted
into such holes and finally depressed from above flat against the sleeper.
The rails are then forced between the hooks of the plates connected to the
sleeper. The removal of the hook-plate from the sleeper released from the rail
is effected in the following manner:
The sleeper is turned round and the two lower hooks of the hook-plate are
drawn together by a screw-vice- easily made for that purpose-to such an extent
that the outer distance of the two hooks corresponds to the inner extent of the
holes of the sleeper, such hooks being then taken out.
A rail cannot be released from a railway-track thus made without a great
noise, so that the ill-willed loosening of a rail may be readily observed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
Improved means for securing rails to iron sleepers, consisting of a hook-plate,
which, before being inserted into the holes of the sleeper, is bent upwardly and
then depressed flat against the sleeper, so that the lower hooks engage below the

page_text: sleeper, whilst the upper hooks secure the foot or base of the rail for the purpose
of rendering difficult an ill-willed loosening of the rail fastening substantially
as described and shown in the drawing.