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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE
HERMAN MOSES LEVINSON, OF EL PASO, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ANDER-
SON M. WALTHALL, OF EL PASO, TEXAS.
RAILROAD-TIE.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Feb. 8, 1910.
Application filed January 26, 1909. Serial No. 474,310.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, HERMAN MosES LEV-
INSON, a citizen of the United States, resid-
ing at El Paso, in the county of El Paso and
5 State of Texas, have invented a new and
useful Railroad-Tie, of which the following
is a specification.
This invention relates to metallic railway
ties and its object is to provide a device of*
10 this character cast in a single piece and
which is so shaped as to pack the ballast or
road-bed thereunder toward the center of
the tie, a portion of the ballast being de-
signed to extend through the tie so as to
15 add to the weight thereof and also prevent
movement of the tie relative to the road-bed
and practically prevent vibration.
Another object is to provide a tie which
is so constructed as to prevent water from
20 accumulating therein or thereunder, said tie
being so shaped as to cause water to
promptly drain therefrom.
With these and other objects in view the
invention consists of certain novel details
25 of construction and combinations of parts
hereinafter more fully described and point-
ed out in the claims.
In the accompanying drawings the pre-
ferred form of the invention has been shown.
30 In said drawings:-Figure 1 is a plan
view of a tie constructed in accordance with
the present invention, a portion of said tie
being broken away to show one of its webs
or partitions in section. Fig. 2 is a longitu-
35 dinal section through the tie. Fig. 3 is a
section on line A-B Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a
perspective view of one of the rail-fastening
devices used in connection with the tie.
Referring to the figures by characters of
40 reference 1 and 2 designate the top and bot-
tom plates respectively of the tie, said plates
being elongated and slightly bowed from
end to end. The plates are also equi-distant
throughout their length and are connected
45 at desired intervals by integral webs or par-
titions 3, each of which is formed with one
or more openings 4, extending therethrough.
The top plate 1 is preferably thickened at
the points where rails are to be placed as
50 indicated at 5, there being a transverse
groove 6 in the upper face of each of these
thickened portions, said grooves being of the
same width as the base of a rail and con-
stituting a seat for a rail. Recesses 7 are
55 formed in the walls of these grooves and aredesigned to receive angular projections 8
formed upon the bottom faces of rail-engag-
ing blocks 9. One of these blocks has been
shown in detail in Fig. 4 and by referring
thereto it will be noted that one end por- 6o
tion of the block is tapered as at 10 so as
to lap and fit snugly upon one of the base
flanges of a rail. A bolt-receiving opening
11 extends through the block and the bolt
12 used for securing it in place is designed 65
to be screwed into an opening 13 formed
in the top plate 1.
Referring to Fig. 2 it will be noted that
a partition or web 3 is located directly under
the center of each groove 6 so as to prevent 70
the tie from crushing under the weight of
a load upon the rails.
In using the tie herein described the same
is placed on the road-bed and ballast is not
only tamped thereunder but is also placed 75
in the spaces between partitions or webs 3
and upon the end portions of the plates 1
and 2 as clearly indicated in Fig. 2. It
will be seen therefore that the tie becomes
firmly seated upon the road-bed and when 80
subjected to downward pressure the bowed
bottom plate 2 operates to compress the
ballast thereunder inwardly toward the cen-
ter of the tie. Moreover, by filling the
spaces between the top and bottom plates, 85
practically all vibrations are absorbed and
the weight of the tie is considerably in-
creased. After the ballast has been properly
packed it becomes obviously impossible for
the tie to become displaced relative to the 90
road-bed. After the tie has been placed
upon the road-bed in the manner described
the rails are arranged within the grooves
or seats 6 and fastened in place by means of
the blocks 9. These blocks are arranged 95
with their angular extensions 8 seated with-
in the recesses 7 and the bolts 12 are inserted
through the openings 11 and screwed into
the corresponding openings 13 in the top
plate 1. 100
Obviously various changes may be made
in the construction and arrangement of
parts without departing from the spirit or
sacrificing the advantages of the invention.
What is claimed is:- 105
1. A metallic railway tie having its upper
face convexed from end to end, said tie com-
prising top and bottom plates bowed longi-
tudinally and spacing webs interposed be-
tween and integral with the plates. 110948,589.
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Levinson, Herman Moses. Railroad-Tie, patent, February 8, 1910; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth510227/m1/2/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.