IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PERMANENT WAY OF RAILWAYS
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Friedrich Carl Glaser, of Berlin, in the Kingdom of
Prussia and Empire of Germany, Engineer and Patent Solicitor, for an
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PERMANENT WAY OF RAILWAYS."
A communication from August Haarmann, of Osnabrück, in the Kingdom
of Prussia and Empire of Germany.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Friedrich Carl Glaser at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th August 1881.
FRIEDRICH CARL GLASER, of Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia and Empire of
Germany, Engineer and Patent Solicitor. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PERMANENT
WAY OF RAILWAYS." A communication from August Haarmann, of Osnabrück,
in the Kingdom of Prussia and Empire of Germany.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawing,
Figure 1 is a cross section through rail showing this improved method of securing
same to aleeper, Figure 2 being a side elevation of same partly in section, and
Figure 3 a plan of same..
Figures 4, 5, and 6 being cross sections through the rail and holding down clip,
shewing different forms of clip. In this Invention the sleeper A, the form of
which is secured by Letters Patent, No. 2159, A.D. 1879, is not bent. The desired
cant or inclination is given te the nails C by the tapering or sloping saddle pieces B,
which are provided on the outside with clips m and n The clips enter suitable
slots in the sleepers, so that the saddle pieces cannot shift their position. In order
to obtain a desired increase of guage with sleepers perforated or slotted alike the
clips are of different shapes (see Figs. 1, 4, 5, and 6). Towards the outside of the
way the joints bear against the clips m, whereas the rails are fixed inside the way
by plates D and screws E. When uniformly perforated or slotted sleepers are
used, the plates are suitably arranged to serve for various enlargements of guage.
Other forms of sleepers may be used in lieu of the sleepers A, and the shape of the
saddle piece B may also be modified. The essential point is the adjustment of the
piece B with the clips m and n; that is to say, with bolts or with only a single
clip. The saddle pieces may be made of cast iron rolled and wrought, or from
other iron or steel.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Friedrich Carl Glaser in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
80th January 1882.
FRIEDRICH CARL GLASER, of Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia and Empire of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PERMANENT
Germany, Engineer and Patent Solicitor.
WAY OF RAILWAYS." A communication from August Haarmann, of Osnabrück,
in the Kingdom of Prussia and Empire of Germany.
.
This Invention relates to improvements upon the system of permanent way of
railways with metallic super-structure and iron or other metal sleepers, for which
I have obtained Letters Patent, No. 2159, dated. the Thirtieth day of May, 1879,
and consists particularly in the use of saddle pieces, by the aid of which the securing
of the rail to the sleeper at any desired cant or degree of inclination is effected
with great facility, simplicity, and safety.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawing,
Figure 1 is a cross section through rail showing this improved method of securing
same to sleeper.
Figure 2 being a side elevation of same, partly in section, and
Figure 3 a plan of same.
Figures 4, 5, and 6 being cross sections through the rail and saddle pieces with
holding down clips, showing different forms of clip.
In this Invention the sleeper A, the form of which is secured by Letters Patent,
No. 2159, A.D. 1879, is not bent. The desired cant or inclination is given to the
rails C by the tapering or sloping saddle pieces B, which are provided on the outside
with clips m and n.
The clips enter suitable slots in the sleepers, so that the saddle pieces cannot
shift their position.
In order to obtain a desired increase of guage with sleepers perforated or slotted
alike, the clips n are of different shapes (see Figures 1, 4, 5, and 6).
Towards the outside of the way the joints bear against the clips m, whereas the
rails are fixed inside the way by plates D and screw bolts E.
When uniformly perforated or slotted sleepers are used, the plates are suitably
arranged to serve for various enlargements of guage.
Other forms of sleepers may be used in lieu of the sleeper A, and the shape of
the saddle piece B may also be modified.
The essential point is the adjustment of the piece B with the clips m and n,
that is to say, with both or with only a single clip.
The saddle pieces may be made of cast iron rolled and wrought, or from other
iron or steel.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of the Invention communicated
to me as aforesaid, and in what manner the same is or may be performed,
I claim as secured to me by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent, the
improvements in the permanent way of railways, consisting of :-
Firstly. The system of superstructure, substantially as shown on the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawing, and hereinbefore described.
Secondly. The use of the saddle piece B, which permits giving the desired
inclination to the rails fixed upon non curved sleepers, substantially as hereinbefore
specified.
Thirdly. The adjustment and fixing of the rails on the sleepers by means of the
saddle-piece B, plate D, and bolt E, substantially as hereinbefore described.

page_text: Fourthly. The mode of enlarging the guage of a way formed with uniformly
perforated or slotted sleepers, substantially as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Friedrich Carl Glaser, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty two,
FRIEDRICH CARL GLASER, (L.S.)