SLEEPER AND ASTENING FOR RAILS
Year: 1884

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I ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the county of Middlesex,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention for 'SLEEPER AND
ASTENING FOR RAILS a communication from abroad by Charles S. Westbrook of
Washington, United States, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
e particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:―
This invention consists firstly in the improved construction of a railway tie
hade of a metallic plate and secondly in the improved construction and combination
f parts of fastenings for the rails as hereinafter more fully described.
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I ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the county of Middlesex,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention for "SLEEPER AND
ASTENING FOR RAILS a communication from abroad by Charles S. Westbrook of
Washington, United States, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
le particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention consists firstly in the improved construction of a railway tie
made of a metallic plate and secondly in the improved construction and combination
of parts of fastenings for the rails as hereinafter more fully described.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1. is a perspective view of the improved metallic railway tie.
Figure 2. is a view of a modification of the same.
Figure 3. is a cross section on line xx figure 2.
Figure 4 is a perspective view of one mode of securing the rails to the tie.
Figure 5. is a similar view seen from below.
Figure 6. is a longitudinal vertical section of the same.
Figure 7. is a cross section on line xx figure 6.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.
The letter A. indicates the top plate of the tie which has two downwardly pro-
jecting flanges, B., upon its side edges which .flanges may have a portion cut away
at their middles for the purpose of reducing the weight of the tie as shown in
figure 2 and the said top plate has one or more apertures C. cut away at its middle,
through which apertures the ballast may be conveniently tamped.
If desired one aperture may extend nearly the entire distance between the
places upon which the rails are secured when the sides of the aperture may be
braced by one or more bridges D. having re-inforcing ribs E upon their upper sides
and having slotted ends F which slotted ends may clamp the flanges G. of the
aperture and are secured to the said flanges by means of rivets or bolts H.
In figures 4, 5, 6 and 7 is shown a fastening for the rails in which two clamping
lips I, I. are secured upon the top of the tie, inside the place, upon which the rail
is to rest, the said lips clamping the foot flanges of the rails upon the inner sides
of the rails and the downwardly bent and perforated flanges J. of two sliding
clamping lips K, slide in two pairs of longitudinal slots L L. near the ends of the
tie the said clamping lips clamping the outer foot flanges of the rails, which latter
are indicated by M, in the drawings and may be of any desired construction,

page_text: Gibs N. having a hook O. at one end and a shoulder P. at the other end pass
through two pairs of perforations or slots Q. Q. in the flanges of the tie, the said
slots registering with the slots in the top of the tie, the book and shoulder bearing
against the outer sides of the flanges and the end of the gib having the shoulder is
provided with a bent perforated shank R. through the perforation in which the
screw threaded end or shank S. of a wedge or key T. passes, the said shank being
at the tapering end of the key and the shank is provided with nuts U. bearing.
against the outer side of the perforated shank by means of which nuts the key
may be tightened and be caused to bear against the inclined side of the gib and
against the inner edges of the perforations in the flanges of the sliding lips which
will force the said flanges and lips inwards, causing them to bear against the foot
flanges of the rails.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner of the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
First: A railway tie consisting of a plate of metal having its side edges bent
downwards and having one or more apertures in the middle of the said top plates;
as and for the purpose shown and set forth.
Second: A railway tie consisting of a plate of metal having its side edges bent
downwards and cut out at their middles, and having one or more apertures in the
middle of the top plate; as and for the purpose shewn and set forth.
Third: The combination of a railway tie consisting of a metallic plate having
its side edges bent downwards and having an aperture in the middle of the top
plate formed with inwardly projecting edges or flanges, with a bridge having
reinforcing webs upon its upper and lower sides, and having its ends split clamping
the flanges of the aperture in the tie and secured by means of rivets or bolts
passing through them; as and for the purpose shown and set forth.
Fourth-The combination of a metallic Railway tie having downwardly bent
side flanges and having two pairs of longitudnial slots near the ends of the top
plate and two pairs of longitudinal slots in the side flanges corresponding to the
longitudinal slots two inner clamping lips secured upon the top of the tie, two
outer clamping lips having downwardly projecting perforated flanges sliding in the
longitudinal slots in the top of the tie-the rails, gibs passing through the slots in
the side flanges and through the perforated flanges of the sliding lips and a key or
wedge passing through the said slots and perforations bearing against the gib and
against the inner edges of the perforations of the flanges of the sliding lip, as and
for the purpose shewn and set forth.
Fifth The combination of the tie consisting of the flat top and parallel side
flanges the top having the central opening and the longitudinal slots at its ends
and the flanges having the slots at their ends, the fixed lips, the sliding lips
having the slotted flanges, the gib and key, and means substantially as described
for securing them as and for the purpose shewn and set forth.
Sixth-The combination of the slotted tie having the fixed lips, the sliding
lips having the slotted flanges, the gib having the hook and shoulder, and the
perforated shank the key having the threaded shank and the nuts as and for the
purpose shewn and set forth.