Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 11th June, 1886.
Complete Left, 4th Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 5th Apr., 1887.
I, JOHN SOMERSET of Gleden Hall, Gleden Street, Bradford Road Manchester in
the County of Lancaster Gunsmith do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:
:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the permanent way of railways.
For this purpose transverse metallic sleepers of a trough form with horizontal
flanges extending outwards from the top of the sides of the trough are used.
To secure the rails to such sleepers slots are cut downwards through these flanges
and through the sides of the trough for the lower part of the rails to drop into. One
side of each slot is of the contour of the side of the lower part of the rail and the rail
is held up to this side of the slot by a wedge driven in between it and the other side of
the slot preferably the wedge is made thicker at the bottom than at the top.
Wherever each sleeper is slotted to receive the rails the sleeper is strengthened by
a chair or lining piece fitting exactly to the interior-this strengthening piece is made
to extend for some distance on either side of the slot.
Beneath the rails and between them and the bottom of the chair or lining piece a
piece of wood is preferably inserted to act as a cushion.
In the case of a junction chair the two rail ends are not only held in it in the
above manner but are in addition held together by a fish plate placed against their
inner sides and by wedges or keys of iron or steel driven transversely through slots
in this fish plate and through slots in the rail and in the wedge on the opposite side
of the rail the iron or steel keys themselves rest against the inner sides of the chair
or lining and when driven home are secured by split cottars or pins.
D
111
T
1000
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, JOHN SOMERSET of Gleden Hall, Gleden Street, Bradford Road, Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, Gunsmith, 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 has for its object improvements in the permanent way of railways.
For this purpose transverse metallic sleepers of a trough form with horizontal
flanges extending outwards from the top of the sides of the trough are used.
To secure the rails to such sleepers slots are cut downwards through these flanges
and through the sides of the trough for the lower part of the rails to drop into. One
side of each slot is of the contour of the side of the lower part of the rail and the rail
is held up to this side of the slot by a wedge driven in between it and the other side of
the slot preferably the wedge is made thicker at the bottom than at the top.
Wherever each sleeper is slotted to receive the rails the sleeper may be strengthened
by a chair or lining piece fitting exactly to the interior- this strengthening piece is
made to extend for some distance on either side of the slot.
Beneath the rails and between them and the bottom of the chair or lining piece a
piece of wood is preferably inserted to act as a cushion.
In the case of a junction chair the two rail ends are not only held in it in the above
manner but are in addition held together by a fish plate placed against their inner
sides and by wedges or keys of iron or steel driven transversely through slots in this
fish plate and through slots in the rail and in the wedge on the opposite side of the
rail the iron or steel keys themselves rest against the inner sides of the chair or
lining and when driven home are secured by split cottars or pins.
Figure 1 is a vertical transverse section through a pair of rails supported on a
metallic sleeper in the manner above described.
Figure 2 is a plan view of the same.
Figure 3 is a section through one of the sleepers shewing it serving as a joint
chair.
Figure 4 is a section through the centre of one of the sleepers.
A A are the rails, B is the trough sleeper C C are the slots cut in the upper part
of the sleeper through the flanges and through the sides of the trough for the lower
part of the rails to drop into. D D are the wedges-they may conveniently be made
either of wood with a metal facing on the side which is to come against the edges of
the slot C as shown on the left hand side of Figure 1, or they may be of cast iron
as shewn on the right hand side of Figure 1 in which case they would be made
hollow.
The right hand side of Figure 2 shews the way in which the rails are supported at
their junctions by a fish plate E placed against their inner sides. F F are bolts for
retaining the fish plates.

page_text: As before stated the sleepers where they are slotted to receive the rails may be
strengthened by a lining piece fitting exactly to the interior of the slots and wooden
filling pieces may also be placed below the rails so as to act as cushions.
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 :-
1. The construction of the permanent way of railways of metallic trough sleepers
with horizontal flanges extending outwards along the top of each side and with slots
cut through the flanges and into the sides of the trough into which the lower part
of the rails are dropped and retained by wedges or filling pieces substantially as
described.
2. The construction of the permanent way of railways substantially in the manner
herein before described.