Improvements in or relating to Railway Chairs and sleepers.
Year: 1899

page_text: Improvements in or relating to Railway Chairs and sleepers.
A communication from PAUL CAZES, Engineer, of Le Boucau, Bassés Pyrénées,
in the Republic of France.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of 111, Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The present invention relates to an improved means of fixing railway rails to
metal cross-sleepers by means of raised lugs or parts punched out or formed from
the body of the sleeper, between which lugs the rails are located and fixed by
means of wedges, keys, or the like.
The metal cross sleeper is of an inverted U section or of any other suitable
section; two lugs or arms are punched out at each end from the material of
the sleeper without, however, separating them from it, said armis being bent
upwards forming open spaces in the sleepers on each side of the rail.
These plates are then bent upwards to approximate roughly to the profile of
the rails, thus forming chairs, which possesses the merit of being in one piece
with the cross-sleeper and rendering butt joints and bolts unnecessary, wedges
or blocks being employed to hold the rails securely in position.
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BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.
improvements in or relating to Hallway a popolo,
A communication from PAUL CAZES, Engineer, of Le Boucau, Bassés Pyrénées,
in the Republic of France.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of 111, Hatton Garden, in the County of London,
Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
The present invention relates to an improved means of fixing railway rails to
metal cross-sleepers by means of raised lugs or parts punched out or formed from
the body of the sleeper, between which lugs the rails are located and fixed by
means of wedges, keys, or the like.

page_text: In the accompanying drawing:-
Figure 1 is a plan view of a cross-sleeper and chairs.
Figure 2 an elevation with part in section on the line A, B, Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a cross section on the line C, D of Figure 1.
The metal cross sleeper a is of an inverted U-section, or of any other suitable
section, being the rails at the required distance apart. Two lugs or arms c d
are punched out at each end from the material of the sleeper without, however,
separating them from it, said arms being bent upwards forming open spaces e
and in the sleeper on each side of the rail. These plates are then bent inwards
to approximate roughly to the profile of the rails, thus forming chairs, which
possess the merit of being in one piece with the cross-sleeper and rendering butt-
joints and bolts unnecessary, wedges, or blocks being employed to hold the
rails securely in position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said
invention, as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:-
1. A combined railway sleeper and chair comprising a metal sleeper having
parts bent out near its ends forming lugs or arms which are bent to form chairs
for the rails, substantially as described.
2. The complete combined railway sleeper and chair, substantially as described
or illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
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