US1467842A - Railway crossing - Google Patents

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Sep&. 111, 1923.

W. DALEY ET AL RAILWAY CROSSING Filed Oct. 8, 1921 1' Patented crept. ll,

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To all whom it may canoe m lle it known that we, VVrL-Lmn DALEZ,' Joni: DAIJCY, and .losicrir DALEY, citizens of the United States, residing, at Bolitar, in the county of 'l uscarawas and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Railway Crossing. of which the tollowingis a speck 'lication.

This invention relates to railway crossings and more particularly to a crossing tormed'o't a plurality of cement or similar blocks.

The crossings now in general use through the country, are composed of heavy planks which are mounted upon the ties and fixed thereto by spikes.

Crossings of this character are always considerably damaged when it is necessary to tear up and re-lay the same, the spikes which. connect the planks to the ties cannot be withdrawn without splitting or otherwise d ainagin e' the planks, and as it is frequently necessary to tear up crossings in order to keep the track in repair, the cost of niain taining plank crossings is quite high. Con siderable time and labor are also required to install and maintain plank crossings.

Solid cement or concrete crossings as well brick crossings are sometimes used at the intersection of a railroad track and a paved street or road, but besides being expensive to install and maintain, crossings of this character have proven unsatisfactory, as they form a hard spot in the track, frequently causing the rails to break when they are subjected to a heavy load; while the passing of trains, as well as frost, cause the bricks to wear loose or break.

The objects of the present invention are to provide a railway crossing which is more durable than a plank crossing, and which overcomes the objections to a solid concrete or block crossing and which is so constructed that it can be torn up and re-laid easily and cheaply and without danger of injury to the crossing; the crossing being so constructed that it may be laid directly on the ties and will not interfere with the natural wave motion of the rails or be ailected by movement in the bed of the track produced by excessive loads or frost.

With these objects in View, the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts. hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drav-ring, it being Serial 0. 506,390.

Similar numerals indicate corresponding parts throughout the drawing.

The usual track ties are indicated in the drawing at l, and the rails at 2, it being understood that both oi these parts are of the usual construction. The crossing is composed of the inner blocks 3 and the outer blocks 4:, all of which are formed of cement or the like and are of suitable height to register with the top of the rails.

Each of the inner blocks 3 is of a length substantially equal to one-half the distance between the rails, the abutting ends of said blocks being straight as shown at 41*, while the outer ends are cut away at the top and bottom, forming; the reduced. extension 5 ar ranged to engage the web of the rail and being cut away sufiiciently at the top and bottom to prevent the same from contacting with the ball of the rail or base flange as best shown at Fig. 3, thus allowing the rail to settle under a heavy weight without resting upon the block, and permitting the usual angle bars to be used at rail joints, allowing the rail to spring up and down without engaging the block.

Each of the outer blocks 4: is provided with a sinular reduced portion 6 cut away below the ball of t 1e rail and above the base flange of the rail and provided with a groove 7 which allows the outer edge of the wheel of an engine or car to extend outwardly beyond the ball of the rail without engaging the block.

Certain of the inner blocks 3 are provided at their inner ends with the vertical grooves 8 to permit the insertion of a hook in order that the block may be hoisted up when it is necessari to make repairs upon the crossing. Curved or tapered blocks, such as the quarter round blocks 9 are preferably provided lit) along each side of the crossing resting upon the adjacent ties into which spikes 10 are driven to prevent lateral movement of the blocks comprising the crossing.

It will thus be seen that a crossing may be easily and quickly built up from blocks such-as above described, the crossing thus produced being free from the objections which are common to the'usual forms of crossings.

It Wlll also be evident that this crossing may be easily torn down and repaired Without danger of damaging the same, While no hard spots are formed in the rails and the iatural wave motion of the rails is not affect. cd or interfered with either by movement in the bed produced. by a passing train or by frost.

Although the drawings and above specification disclose the best mode in which we have contemplated embodying our invention,

circumstances require or experience suggests, Without departing from the spirit of the invention, Within the scope of the appended claim.

We claim A railway crossing comprising in combination With ties and rails, a plurality of blocks loosely mounted upon the ties upon each side of the rails, the blocks being of a suflicient width to span two adjacent ties, each of the blocks between the rails being of sutiicient length to span half of the dis tance between the rails, each block being provided upon the end adjacent to the rails with a reduced extension of sufficient length to permit contact with the webs only of the rails and vertical grooves upon the contacting edges of the blocks between the rails to permit the insertion of a tool. "for removing the blocks.

In testimony that we claim the above, We have hereunto subscribed our names.

WILLIAM DALEY. JOHN DALEY. JOSEPH DALEY.

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