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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
WILLIAM R. COLLIER, OF MONT BELVIEU, TEXAS.
INSULATOR.Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar. 29, 1921.
Application filed August 16, 1920. Serial No. 403,632.To cll whomit may concern:
Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. COLLIER,
a citizen of the United States, residing at
Mont Belvien, in the county of Chambers
5 and State of Texas, have invented certain
new and useful Improvements in Insulators,
of which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to new and useful
improvements in an insulator.
10 One object of the invention is to provide
an insulator which has been specially
formed for the purpose of insulating, from
each other, the adjoining rails of a railway
track.
15 With the above and other objects in view,
the invention has particular relation to cer-
tain novel features of construction, opera-
tion and arrangement of parts, and use, an
example of which is given in this specifica-
20 tion and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings, wherein
Figure 1 is a plan view of a section of
railway track showing the insulator applied.
Fig. 2 is a side view thereof, and
25 Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken
on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.
Referring now more particularly to the
drawings wherein like numerals of refer-
ence designate similar parts in each of the
30 figures. the numerals 1 designate the rail-
way ties and -the numerals 2, 2 designate
adjoining rails of the track, whose adjacent
ends are spaced slightly apart. Fish plates
3, 3 and 4. 4 are secured to opposite sides
35 of the adjacent ends of the rails 2. These
F14 plates are secured to the rails by means
of suitable bolts in the well known manner.
E ach fish plate is turned outwardly, at its
rail end, at substantially right angles to the
40 rail, thus forming the out-turned portions
5 and 6, 6, which are spaced apart, and
fitted between these out-turned ends, and
also between the corresponding ends of the
rails, there is a sheet 7 of insulating mate-
45 trial, which insulates. the out-turned ends
5 and 6 of the fish plates of one rail from
the opposing corresponding parts of the
fish plates of the other rail.The out-turned ends 5, 5 and 6, 6 of the
fish plates are secured together by means 50
of bolts as 8, which are insulated from the
Ps1 plates by the insulators 9 and 10.
It is to be noted that at the angle of one
of the lash plates 3 and the corresponding
angle of the diagonally opposite fish plate 55
4, said fish plates are so formed as to he
spaced from the insulating sheet 7, said
spaces being indicnted by the numerals 11,
11, so that there will be no liability of the
insulation 7 being cut through by the an- GO
gles of the fish plates to complete a circuit.
It is to be noted that the out-turned por-
tions 5, and 6, 6 are iclied relative to
the vertical line of the joint, so that the
relative vertical movement of the respee- G5
tive rail ends, due to-the passage of the
wheel over them, and the corresponding
movement of said out-turned portions will
not be so liable to mutilate the insulator 7
between them. 70
What I claim is:-
1. A. device of the character described, in-
cluding the adjacent ends of railway rails,
fish plates secured on opposite sides of each
rail and haring outwardly turned ends, in- 75
lined relative to the vertical line of the
joint. and an insulator fitted between said
out-turned ends.
2. A device of the character described, in-
cluding the adjacent ends of railway rails. SO
fish plates secured on opposite sides of each
rail and having out-turned ends on one side
of the ril being inclined in. the opposite
direction to those on the other side. inclined
relative to the vertical line of the joint and S5
an insulator fitted between said out-turned
ends.
Inl testimony whereof I hae signed my
name to this specification in the presence of
two subscribing witnesses.
WILLIAM R. COLLIER.
Witnesses:
JNo. B. OLIVER,
Wr. A. CATHEr.1,372,940.
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Collier, William R. Insulator., patent, March 29, 1921; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1258518/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.