Improvements in Permanent Way of Railways and Tramways.
Year: 1885

page_text: I BENSON RATHBONE of Exchange Buildings Liverpool in the County of
Lancaster Cotton Broker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The object is to provide durable and efficient permanent way for railways and
tramways easily made and applied, and so constructed as to possess the requisite
resilience and stability.
The invention consists essentially in cross sleepers of metal of novel construction,
and in combining the same with rails of ordinary or suitable make and adequate
ties and connections.
The said metal sleepers which are preferably of plate steel have two sides at
right angles to each other or thereabouts, and are connected to the rails by
suitable clips or connections, and are if necessary provided with tie pieces as
hereinafter set forth. Each sleeper is placed with its angle or apex resting on
the roadway in ballast and with the rails carried on the free upper edges. The
rails are connected to the sleepers by bolts or to bearing or tie pieces secured to
the said sleepers by rivets or equivalent connections.
Suitable bearing pieces or blocks are made of triangular shaped pieces of wood
or other material which fit within the sleepers and are secured thereto by bolts,
the rails in their turn being attached to the bearing pieces or blocks by bolts
or clips.
Dated this nightmanth dow of Darimba- 100r
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Permanent Way of Railways and Tramways.
I, BENSON RATHBONE of Exchange Buildings Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster Cotton Broker 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 object is to provide durable and efficient permanent way for Railways and
Tramways, easily made and applied, and so constructed as to possess the requisite
resilience and stability.

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The invention consists essentially in cross sleepers of metal, of novel construction
and in combining the same with rails of ordinary or suitable make and adequate
ties and connections.
The said metal sleepers which are preferably of plate steel, have two sides at
right angles to each other, or thereabouts and are connected to the rails by
suitable clips or connections, and are if necessary provided with tie pieces as
hereinafter set forth.
Each sleeper is placed with its angles, or apex resting on the roadway in ballast
and with the rails carried on the free upper edges. The rails are connected to the
sleepers by bolts, or to bearing, or tie pieces secured to the said sleepers by rivetts
or equivalent connections.
Suitable bearing pieces or blocks are made of triangular shaped pieces of wood
or other material which fit within the sleepers and are secured thereto by bolts,
the rails in their turn being attached to the bearing pieces or blocks by bolts
or clips.
DISCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1. is a plan of permanent way under my invention, fig. 2 is a transverse
section of the rail and figs. 3. 4 and 5. transverse sections of the sleepers.
The sleepers have sides a. a¹ meeting at an apex b. at right angles or thereabout,
c. are clips for connecting the sleepers to the rails and d are the pieces for
connecting the sides of the sleepers together. In figure 5. a block of wood e is
employed instead of the tie pieces d. and the rails are secured to the said blocks
by clips.
The clips may be of any usual or suitable construction and may be disposed at
both sides of the rail at alternate sides, diagonally or otherwise as may be found
desirable, a number of systems of connection being shown in fig. 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
First. Permanent way of railways and tramways, constructed substantialy as
herein set forth.
Second. Sleepers and connections for rails combined, substantialy as herein set
forth.
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