Improvements in Rails for Railways.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 6th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 14th May, 1892.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Rails for Railways.
I, RICHARD BECHER of Burgsdorferstr. 13, Berlin, Germany, Builder, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a rail whose external outline in cross section is similar
to that of the Vignole rail but which differs from such rails in that it does not
consist of a single piece, but is built up of three pieces.
By my construction the wear and tear of the permanent way is reduced, and
owing to the absence of abutting edges at the rail joints the following disadvantages
incidental to rails as heretofore made are avoided, viz. :-
The jumping or hammering of the wheels at the rail joints, causing the regular
jolting noise which is so unpleasant in riding and which has been the cause of
frequent breakages of axles, tyres, and boxes; the hollowing out of the ballast
underneath the rail joints by reason of the up and down movement of the joint
ends of the rails, such hollows constituting a danger to the entire ballast by reason
of their liability to become filled with water; the production by the hammering or
jolting of injurious strains on the fastenings such for examples as fishplates, bolts
and spikes, and also the injurious creeping of the sleepers.
Referring to the accompanying drawings ;-
The rail A which receives the pressure of the wheels and distributes the same by.
means of the sleepers upon the rest of the permanent way or upon the ballast, is
T-shaped in cross section, the form of the foot remaining substantially the same as
usual.
To the vertical web a, which is of rectangular cross section, there is connected
on both sides the rails K and K' which, at every joint n (Fig. 1), are rigidly bolted
to the web a by means of screw bolts s. The running head or tread proper of the
rail is formed by the two transverse extensions g of the rail K K¹, and their joint m
is located exactly in the centre line of the web a. The lower extensions of the
rails K and K enter in the foot of the rail A and are preferably tenoned therein.
Such tenoning may be rectangular (Fig. 1) or round or dovetailed (Fig. 3). The
joints n' of the bearing rail A proper are arranged so as to alternate or break joint
with the joints of the running rail K K', so as to prevent the hammering jolts that
have heretofore been usual.
A further advantage of my invention is that worn out rail heads or treads can
be renewed without it being necessary to pull up the rails for that purpose.
Dated this 17th day of March 1892.
TRAHED
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Rails for Railways.
I, RICHARD BECHER of Burgsdorferstr. 13, Berlin, Germany, Builder, 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 relates to a rail whose external outline in cross section is similar
to that of the Vignoles rail but which differs from such rails in that it does not
5 consist of a single piece, but is built up of three pieces.
By my construction the wear and tear of the permanent way is reduced, ant

page_text: owing to the absence of abutting edges at the rail joints the following disadvantages
incidental to rails as heretofore made are avoided, viz. :-The jumping or hammering
of the wheels at the rail joints, which cause the jolting noise which is so unpleasant
in riding, and which has been the cause of frequent breakages of axles, tyres, and
axle boxes; the hollowing out of the ballast underneath the rail joints by reason
of the up and down movement of the joint ends of the rails, the hollows thus formed
constituting a danger to the entire ballast by reason of their liability to become
filled with water; the production by the hammering or jolting, of injurious strains
on the fastenings such for examples as fishplates, bolts and spikes, and also the
injurious creeping of the sleepers.
Referring to the drawings filed with my Provisional Specification :—
The rail A which receives the pressure of the wheels and distributes the same by
means of the sleepers upon the rest of the permanent way or upon the ballast, is
approximately T-shaped in cross section, the form of the foot remaining substantially
the same as usual.
To the vertical web a, which is of rectangular cross section, there is connected
on both sides the rails K and K' which, at every joint 7 (Fig. 1), are rigidly
bolted to the web a by means of screw bolts s. The running head or tread proper
of the rail is formed by the two transverse extensions 9 of the rails K K³, and their
joint m is located exactly in the centre line of the web a. The lower extensions v
of the rails K and K₁ enter the foot of the rail A and are preferably tenoned
therein. Such tenoning may be rectangular (Fig. 1) or round or dovetailed (Fig. 3).
The joints n between adjacent bearing rails A are as shewn arranged so as to
alternate or break joint with the joints of the adjacent pairs of running or tread
rails K K', so as to prevent the jumping or hammering that has heretofore been
usual at the joints.
A further advantage of my invention is that worn out rail heads or treads can be
renewed without its being necessary to pull up the rails A for that purpose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A railway rail having an external form in cross section resembling that of the
Vignoles rail and formed of three longitudinal parts viz. :-The central bearing rail
A and the tread rails KK' the latter rails being bolted to the sides of the bearing
rail, the arrangement being such that when several such rails are placed in line to
form a continuous rail the adjacent pairs of rails K K¹ will break joint with the
adjacent bearing rails A substantially as described.
2. Railway rails constructed as shewn in and described with reference to the
drawings.
Dated this 8th day of Ancil 1900
RICHARD BECHER,
By L. W., per F. B.