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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
ASA WALKER, OF SOURLAKE, TEXAS.
RAIL-JOINT.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Nov. 21, 1916.
Application filed April 27, 1916. Serial No. 93,995.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, AsA WALKER, a citi-
zen of the United States, residing at Sour-
lake, in the county of Hardin, State of
5 Texas, have invented certain new and use-
ful Improvements in Rail-Joints; and I do
hereby declare the following to be a full,
clear, and exact description of the inven-
tion, such as will enable others skilled in
io the art to which it appertains to make and
use the same.
The present invention is directed to im-
provements in rail joints, and more par-
ticularly to that type known as "Scarf"
1b joints.
The invention has for its object to pro-
vide a rail joint constructed in such a man-
ner that the adjacent ends of the rails can
be easily and quickly interlocked and held
20 against creeping or accidental displacement.
A further object of the invention is to
provide a joint for rails constructed in such,
a manner that a rail section can be removed
without removing the adjacent rail section.
25 With these and other objects in view, this
invention resides in the novel features of
construction, formation, combination and
arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more
fully described, claimed and illustrated in
30 the accompanying drawing, in which:-
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device.
Fig. 2 is a fragmentary perspective view of
one end of a rail section. Fig. 3 is a similar
view of the other end of the section. Fig. 4
35 is a sectional view on line 4-4 of Fig. 1.
Each rail section comprises the usual base
flange 1, web 2 and tread 3. One end of
the web 2 terminates in a tongue 4, said
tongue forming in conjunction with the
40 tread 3 a shoulder 5, said tongue having its
lower end rounded, as at 6. The other endof the web 2 is cut away as at 7 so that the
adjacent end of the tread 3 extends beyond
the end of the web. The extended end of
the tread is provided with a recess 8 which 45
opens downwardly and is alined with the
space 9 formed between the extensions 10
carried by the base flange 1. It will be
noted that the vertical edge of the tongue
I is inclined slightly, and likewise the end 5o
of the web 2. The abutting ends of the rail
sections meet on the ties 11 and are spiked
thereto, certain of the spikes being engaged
with the base flanges 1, while certain other
of the spikes are engaged with the exten- 55
sions 10.
From the foregoing description it will be
seen that a section can be conveniently re-
moved upon withdrawing the spikes from
engagement with the extensions 10 upon 60
simply lifting one end of the rail upwardly.
Since the tongue 4 has its lower end en-
gaged between the extensions 10, and its
upper end engaged in the recess 8, lateral
movement of the rail sections is prevented. 65
What is claimed is:-
The combination of the meeting ends of
a pair of rails, one of said rails having its
tread provided with a downwardly opening
recess and its flange provided with spaced 70
extensions, the other rail having its web
terminating in a tongue, said tongue having
its upper end adapted to engage the recess
and its lower end to engage between said
extensions, and means for securing the rails 75
to the ties.
In testimony whereof, I affix my signa-
ture, in the presence of two witnesses.
ASA WALKER.
Witnesses:
J. W. CAMPBELL,
E. W. COOK.Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents,
Washington, D. C."1,205,293.
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Walker, Asa. Rail Joint, patent, November 21, 1916; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth858958/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.