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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JOHNIE A. McGUIRE, OF CUSHING, TEXAS.
TRACK-GAGE.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Oct. 29, 1918.
Application filed June 5, 1918. Serial No. 238,341.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, JOHNIE A. McGUrmn,
a citizen of the United States, residing at
Cushing, in the county of Nacogdoches and
5 State of Texas, have invented certain new
and useful Improvements in Track-Gages,
of which the following is a specification,
reference being had to the accompanying
drawings.
10 This invention relates to track laying ap-
pliances, and particularly to means for gag-
ing the distance between the rails of a track
so that the rails may be disposed at the
proper gage at all. times.
15 The general object of this invention is to
provide a device of this character which is
very simple, and which may be readily
handled, and by which, after one rail is
laid, the other rail may be forced positively
20 into a proper relation to the first named
rail and held in this relation until the sec-
ond named rail has been spiked.
A further object is to provide a construc-
tion of this character with hand operated
25 means for drawing the rails toward each
other so constructed that considerable power
may be secured to force the rails to gage.
Other objects will appear in the course of
the following description.
30 My invention is illustrated in the accom-
panying drawings, wherein:-
Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view
of a track gage constructed in accordance
with my invention;
35 Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of
Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of
Fig. 1; and
Fig. 4 is an under side fragmentary plan
40 view of one end of the bar 16.
Referring to these drawings, 10 desig-
nates a body having upwardly extending
sides 11 forming a guideway. The middle
portion of these sides is extended upward
45 above the end portions and is provided with
the oval openings 12. A guide block 13 is
disposed between the sides 11 at one end
thereof and at the other end and spaced
above the body 10 is a bar 14 which is fixed
50 to the sides in any suitable manner and
which at its extremity extends downward
and then inward as at 15.
Resting upon the body 10 and slidable
therealong is a gage bar 16 which is longer
55 than the body 10 and has V-shaped down-
wardly turned ends 17, one of these endsconfronting the extremity of the rail clamp-
ing bar 14. Resting upon the gage bar 16
and sliding thereon is a rail clamping bar
18 which is reduced in thickness at its mid- 60
dle as at 19 so as to pass beneath the guide
block 13 and which at its outer end is down-
wardly extended and then inwardly extend-
ed as at 20. In other words, this end of
the rail clamping bar 18 is formed exactly 65
like the end 15 of the clamping bar 14. The
upper face of the bar 18 at its end remote
from the lug or hook 20 is formed with a
plurality of ratchet teeth 21.
Mounted between the sides 11 for oscilla- 70
tion is a lever 22 which is bifurcated and
pivotally mounted in this bifurcated por-
tion of the lever are the two pawls 23 and
24, these pawls being pivotally mounted on
opposite sides of the pivot pin 25 of the 75
lever. The pawl 24 is provided with a
laterally projecting pin 26 which extends
out through the openings 12 whereas the
pawl 23 is provided with the upwardly
projecting pin 27, these pins permitting the 80
pawls to be raised out of engagement with
the ratchet teeth 21. A handle 28 is adapt-
ed to -be inserted in the socket formed in
the upper end of the lever 22 and forms an
extension of this lever whereby the lever 85
may be oscillated.
In the practical use of this device, the
hooked portion 15 of the fixed bar 14 is
engaged over a rail which has been pre-
viously fixed to the ties and the gage bar 90
16 is abutted against this rail. The hooked
end 20 of the rail clamping bar 18 is now
engaged with the other rail and then the
lever 22 is oscillated to cause the rail clamp-
ing bar 18 to move toward the rail clamping 95
bar 14, thus drawing the second named rail
inward until it is abutted against the ex-
tremity of the gage bar 16. When this oc-
curs, the rails are in gage and the second
named rail may be spiked to the ties. 7 00
It will be seen that the lever 22 and its
pawls will exert considerable power upon
the rail shifting and clamping bar 18 so
that the second rail may be forced posi-
tively and strongly into abutting engage- 105
ment with the adjacent end of the gage bar
16 and that even if there is a slight bend
in the rail, the device is sufficiently powerful
to force the rail firmly into its proper posi-
tion and hold it there while the rail is being 110
spiked. After the rail is spiked, the pawls
may be released from their engagement with1,282,897.
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McGuire, Johnie A. Track Gage, patent, October 29, 1918; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1256809/m1/2/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.