Improvements in Devices for Connecting Railway Metals.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 24th July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Apr., 1891-Accepted, 13th June, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for Connecting Railway Metals.
I, ERNST FRIEDRICH AUGUST REICHOW of Kl. Schaeferkamp No. 36,
Hamburg, in the Empire of Germany, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to devices for connecting railway metals and has for its
purpose to provide a simple means for obviating the jolting of the carriages when
their wheels pass the connections of the rails.
To attain the above end, metals of ordinary cross section are chamfered sideways
at both extremities, similar to switch-tongues, so that both joining surfaces are at
least one foot long. Said surfaces are provided, at one extremity of the rail, with
round bolt-holes, at the other end with oval or oblong holes, to admit of thermal
expansion and contraction of the metal.
The chamfered extremities of the rails are so placed on the sleepers as to project
uniformly beyond the same on either side, thus causing the sleeper to serve with
its entire breadth as support for two rails.
The jolting of the carriages which is usually very violent where the rails are
coupled by ordinary fish-plates, is entirely obviated through the improved con-
necting mode, the wheels passing very gradually and not abruptly from one rail
onto the other.
T11000
HUELSER & Co.,
Attorneys.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for Connecting Railway Metals.
I, ERNST FRIEDRICH AUGUST REICHOW of Hamburg Germany Merchant,
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 present invention relates to joints for railway rails or for girders of any
description but is more particularly designed for rail joints for the permanent way
of railways.
The object of the said invention is to provide a joint of the necessary stability
and resistance and at the same time to avoid the jumping of the coaches or cars,
at present invariably experienced in passing the rail-joints, which in addition to its
irritating effect upon the passengers, causes very considerable wear and tear of the
rolling stock.
I attain this object by the joint hereinafter described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings in which
Figure 1 is a side elevation of two rail ends, forming the joint, the sole-plate
for supporting the joint being shown at the left hand part in section on a line y, y
of Figure 2 right in front of and parallel to the rail ends.
Figure 2 is a plan of Figure 1.
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Figure 3 is a section of the rail on line x, x of Figure 1.
Figure 4 is a top view of the sole-plate, and
Figure 5 a plan, showing the arrangement of the joints on the tracks.
milan naxto throughout the several views.

page_text: The ends of the two rails to be joined are bevelled off to an angle of about 30°
to the longitudinal axis of the rails in the horizontal plane (Figure 2) and pro-
vided with holes for the reception of the connecting bolts, which through the
medium of fish plates c, d serve to keep the rail-joints rigidly together. The bolt
holes in one of the ends forming the joint, as well as in the corresponding fish plate
are not round but are made oval (Figure 1) as usual to allow the necessary play
for the contraction or expansion of the rails.
The joint is supported in a sole-plate a having side flanges b, b¹ enclosing the
foot of the rail which fits exactly between them.
I arrange these joints directly on the sleepers and not between the same as
heretofore, but in order to prevent a destruction of the said sole-plate as has
Leretofore been caused by the sharp edges at the rail ends under the pressure of
the rolling stock, the sole-plate a is provided with a recess of convenient width
underneath and in the direction of the rail joint. By is means the sharp edges
of the bevelled ends of the rails do not bear on the sole plate and moreover, the
recess stamped or pressed into the sole plate will also serve to strengthen the
latter. To avoid the collection of water a drain hole may be bored through
the bottom of the recess for the latter may be filled ou with a soft metal.
It is clear that in a joint of this kind no jolting of the rolling stock in passing
the same can occur, as the wheel is well on to the next rail before having left the
previous one. Moreover, the displacement or sinking of the ends of the rails at
the joints is entirely avoided, and comfort and safety in travelling is thus con-
siderably augmented.
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
A rail or girder joint consisting of the bevel rail ends perforated for the reception
of the connecting bolts as set forth, in combination with convenient fish-plates and
a sole-plate provided with lateral flanges for the reception of the foot of the
rails and a recess beneath the rail ends, substantially as and for the purpose set
forth.
IS 2014 uay
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.