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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICES
BENNIE L. ZEAGLER AND CHARLES L. STRYKER, OF LUFKIN, TEXAS.
CAR REPLACER AND DERAILER.Specification of Letters Patent.
PatentedM 1ay 25, 1915.
Application filed iMay 20, 1912. Serial No. (98,529.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, BoN\IE L. ZEAGLER
and CIIuLEs L. STnYK E, citizens of the
United States, residing at Lufkin, in the
5 county of Angelina. and State of Texas, have
invented certain new and useful Improve-
ments in Car Replacers and Derailers, of
which the following is a specification.
Our invention relates to devices for re-
10 placing the wheel trucks of cars on the track
and also for derailing the trucks, and has
for its object the provision of a device that
is easily and quickly applied to the rails,
dispensing with fastening means, and that
15 is effective in operation.
Our invention will be described in detail
hereinafter and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawings, in which,
Figure 1 is a top plan view showing a
20 fragment of a railroad track and a car truck
in a derailed position with our improved de-
vice mounted on the track; Fig. 2 is a side
view of the replacer and derailer showing
the same applied to a rail and looking from
25 the inner side of the rail. Fig. 3, a similar
view looking from the opposite side of the
device.
in the drawings similar reference char-
acters will be used to designate correspond-
30 ing parts throughout the several views.
in Fig. I is shown a fragment of a track
having the rails A and B, and a truck C
with its wheels D and E off of the rails A
and B. Our improved replacer and de-
35 railer is adapted to be mounted on the rail A
to replace he truck C with its wheels D
and E on the rails A and B, and consists of
a plate 1 adapted to seat upon the tread of
the rail A oand having at one end down-
40 wardly extending and forwardly inclined
prongs 2 that engage the sides of the rail to
hold the device in position thereon. 3 indi-
cates an offset portion extending to the out-
side of the rail and having a downwardly
45 extending projection 3a that engages the
outer side of the rail. The upper portion
of the projection 3a is formed with an in-
wardly inclined ridge 4 that is continued
across the plate 1 and forms a track to en-
50 gage the flange .of the wheel D and carry
it across and over the rail A to seat said
flange on the inner side of the rail, while
the other portion of said projection 3a is
formed with an upwardly inclined and lat-
55 rally extending groove 5 to engage the
flange and carry it with the tread of thewheel on to said laterally inclined ridge 4.
The portion of the plate 1 at the end far-
thest removed from the prongs 2 is formed
with an upwardly inclined surface 6 that is 6o
adapted to carry the wheels on trucks that
they do not become derailed upward and
over the ridge 4, heretofore described, after
replacing the derailed truck on the track.
In use, it Rill be apparent that a displaced 65
truck may be replaced upon the rail by
placing my improved device on the rail in
advance of said displaced truck so that the
portion 3 will be in line with the wheel on
the truck on the outside of the track, said 70
wheel being indicated in Fig. 1 at D. Then
by moving the car forwardly toward the
replacer, the truck will be lifted by the
wheel D engaging the inclined projection
3a, the flange of said wheel riding in the 75
groove 5 until the tread of the wheel en-
gages the ridge 4, and the shoulder formed
by said ridge by engaging the flange of the
wheel, will force the wheel over and into
alinement with the rail, the other wheel E in 80
the meanwhile being forced on to the rail
B. Should the trucks become derailed so
that the wheels are in a reverse position
from that shown in Fig. 1, that is if the
wheel E should be outside of the track in- 85
stead of the wheel D as shown, replacing
may be accomplished by placing the re-
placer toward the rear of the train and back-
ing the train to accomplish replacing of the
wheels on the track. Should it be desired 9o
to derail the truck, the replacer is placed
upon the track in advance of the truck to be
derailed with the portion 3 extending in-
wardly of the track, so that the ridge 4 will
engage the outside of the flange of the wheel, 95
the tread riding on the upwardly inclined
surface 6 and thus lifting the wheel from
the track. In this manner, it will be ap-
parent that the wheel will be forced to one
side, drawing the wheel on the other track ioo
off from the rail and the truck will be de-
railed.
Having thus described our invention, what
we claim is:-
A car replacer and derailer comprising an 105
elongated plate having integral downwardly
extending and forwardly inclined prongs
formed upon opposite sides thereof adjacent
one end adapted to engage the sides of a rail,
said plate being adapted to lie upon the 110
tread surface of a rail throughout its length,
a lateral projection extending from one side1, 140933.
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Zeagler, Bennie L. & Stryker, Charles L. Car Replacer and Derailer, patent, May 25, 1915; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth859125/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.