US1458059A - Car-replacing device - Google Patents

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June 5, 1923.

vv. A; HUBBARD' v CAR REPLAGING' DEVICE Filed dan. 13, 1923 1 l' l/Vl/E/VTR W Hawai@ ATTORNEYS Patented .lune 5, i923..

UNET STTES WILLIAM A. EUBBARD, OF HOQUIAM, WASHINGTON.

CAR-REPLACING DEVICE.

Application led January 13, 1923.

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Be it known that I, WILLLAM A, HUBBARD, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Hoquiam, in the county of Grays Harbor and State of Vashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Replacing Devices, of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to car replacing or rerailing devices and it consists in the combinations, constructions and arrangements herein described and claimed.

An object of my invention is to provide a simple and efficient car replacing unit which embodies means whereby it may be releas ably and rmly held clamped against a track rail and disconnected from the rail at will for use at another point.

A further object of my invention is to provide a car replacing unit of the character described which is adapted to be connected to a track rail in such manner that a stress thereon will tend to prevent displacement or movement of the replacing unit relatively to the rail.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent from the following description, and the novel features of the invention will be particularly outlined in the appended claims.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this application, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a car replacing device embodying the invention in applied position in respect to a track rail,

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the structure shown in Figure l, and

Figure 3 is a transverse section through the structure shown in the preceding views,

In carrying out the invention, l provide a replacer body which comprises side walls 1 and 2 respectively, each having the shape or contour of a segment of a circle and being spaced from each other and held in parallel relation by an integral top 3. The latter is arcuate in shape and is inclined from its juncture with the side wall 2 to its juncture with the side wall l, the side wall l being of greater height than the side wall 2. The latter is adapted to rest upon one side of the base lange 4 of a rail 5 so that the curved upper edge thereof which is joined to the top 3 will terminate at its highest point or in other words interme- Serial No. 612,522.

diate of its ends substantially in the plane of the upper face of the head 6 of the rail. At this time, the side wall l extends transversely across and is supported on adjacent ties 7 of a railway track with which the replacer body is used and which includes the rail 5.

It will be apparent that when a replacer body embodied in the invention and as described is positioned in contiguous relation to the rail 5 as illustrated and as described, the wheel of a derailed car propelled upon the replacer body from either end thereof will be guided upwardly to the plane of the upper face of the head ange of the rail and then laterally into position to traverse the rail. It is of course essential that the car replacer body shall be securely held against displacement or movement relatively to the rail during the rerailing operation and it is also desirable that the means for holding the replacer body in applied relation to the rail shall be such as will permit of convenient and facile connection of the replacer body to the rail and disconnection therefrom when the rerailing operation has been accomplished so that the same replacer body may be used repeatedly at diferent points. In order that the replacer body may be readily connected to and disconnected from a track rail, such as the rail 5, my invention provides a holder for the car replacer body which includes a hook 8 which is adapted to embrace the edge portion of the side of the base llange'e remote from the replacer body and which includes a shank 9 extending in underlying contiguous relation to the base flange 4 between adjacent ties and terminating at a considerable distance beyond the edge of the side of the base flange l which supports the side wall 2 of the replacer body. In the embodiment of the invention illustrated, the end of the shank 9 terminates in a plane extending substantially vertically to the top 3 adjacent to the longitudinal median line thereof.

The shank 9 is apertured adjacent to its 'ree end, as indicated at l0 to provide an eye through which an end link 01": a chain 11 extends. The chain 1l extends through an aperture l2 provided in the wall l of the replacer body at the approximate center of the latter.

The chain 1l is of the usual closed link 'construction and the links thereof are of j tual practice,

v body `has sufficient size and made of such material as to sustain the stresses to which the chain will be subjected in service without distortion or rupture.

From the foregoing description of the various parts of the device, the operation thereof will be readily understood. ln acthe replacer `bodies will be used in pairs, one being held against the outer side of one of a pair of track rails while the other is held against the inner side 4of the other rail. When the replacer been positioned relatively to a rail as desired and as described, the hook 8 is engaged with the base flange of the rail and the end portion of the chain 11 protruding from the replacer body through the aperture 12 is grasped and the chain is pulled taut. One of the links `of the chain will then extend through the aperture 12 and a substantially Ushaped latching element 13 having an offset handle extension 14 to one arm thereof is hooked over the end portion of the link protruding from the aperture 12. A wedge-shaped or tapered key 15 vis projected through the portion of the link protruding from the inner' side of the wall 1 so that the latching member 13 will be clamped between the link which is connected with the link extending through the aperture 12 and the outer face of the side wall 1 vwhile the key 15 will engage at its one yside with the inner face of the wall 1 and at its opposite side with the inner end of the adjacent link of the chain. The yhandle portion 14 of the latching member .is apertured at 16 to receive the link at the outer end of the chain 11.

i With the arrangement described, any stress on the replacer body will tend to tighten the grip of the hook 8 on the base flange of the rail and also to prevent displacement of the latching member 13 from the position in which illustrated. When no stress is imposed on vthe replacer body, the latching member 13 may be readily displaced and the replacer body then displaced from the rail for positioning at another point. The same car replacer body may `therefore be used at different points and the necessity of using spikes or like fastening elements for securing the replacing device in applied relation to the rail is obviated.

Obviously, my invention is susceptible of embodiment in forms other than that illustrated herein and l therefore consider as my own all modifications andl adaptations of the forms of the device herein disclosed which fairly fall within the scope of the appended claims. l

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is 1. A car replacing device comprising a replacer body comprising segmental shaped vertical side Walls and an arcuate top con necting said side walls, one of said side walls being of less height than the other and terminating at its lower edge at a higher level than the horizontal plane of the lower edge of the second side wall, whereby the first -side wall is adapted to rest upon one side of the base flange of a rail when the second side wall rests upon a tie upon which the rail is supported, the said second side wall having an opening formed therethrough, and means engaging with the base flange of the rail at the side thereof remote from the body and extending transversely of said body through the opening in thesecond side wall `for holding the body clamped against the rail 2. A `car replacing device comprising a replacer body comprising segmental shaped vertical side walls and an arcuate top connecting Vsaiol side walls, one of said `yside walls being of less height than the other ,and terminating ,at its lower edge ata yhigher level than the horizontal yplane of the lower edge of the second side wall, whereby the first side wall is adapted to rest upon one side of the base flange of a rail in contiguous relation to the adjacent side ofthe head of the rail .when the second side wall rests upon atie upon which the rail is supported, the second side wall having an opening formed therethrough, a hook adapted to ,embrace ,the edge vportion of the side ,o f the base flange of the rail remote Vfrom the car replacer body and having a shank adapted to extend transversely kof the base ange in underlying contiguous relation thereof, ,a flexible connector secured at one end to the end 4of the shank of said hook rand extending within the replacer body through the opening in the second side wall, and means engaging with said flexible connector and with Ithe outer face of the wall provided with the opening for holding the replacer body clamped against `the rail.

3. A ca r replacing device comprising a replacer body comprising segmental shaped vertical side walls and an arcuate top connecting said side walls, one of said side walls being of less height than the other and being adapted to rest upon one side of the base flange of a rail, the other of said `side walls having an opening formed therethrough, a hook adapted to embrace the edge portion of the side of the vbase flange ofthe rail remote from the car replacer body and having a shank adapted to extend transversely of the base flange in underlying contiguous relation thereof, a chain secured atone end to the end of the shank and extending through the body to protrude lfrom the latter through the opening in the oneside there# of, a `U-shaped latching member engaging the protruding portion ofthe chain and the outer face of the adjacent wall of the body to hold the replacer body. clamped against the rail, said latching member having an offset handle extension to one arm thereof, said handle extension being carried at the extremity of the protruding portion of the chain.

4. A car replacing device comprising a replacer body comprising segmental shaped vertical side Walls and an arcuate top connecting said side Walls, one of said side Walls being of less height than the other and being adapted to rest upon the one side of the base flange of a rail, the other of said side walls having an opening formed therethrough, a hook adapted to embrace the edge portion of the side of the base flange of the rail remote from the car replacer body and having a shank adapted to extend transversely of the base flange in underlying contiguous relation thereof, a chain secured at one end to the end of the shank and eX- tending through the body to protrude from the latter through the opening in the one side thereof, a U-shaped latching member engaging the protruding portion of the chain and the outer face of the adjacent Wall of the body to hold the replacer body clamped against the rail, and a tapered key engaging With the chain and With the inner face of the last named side Wall of the replacer body.

WILLIAM A. HUBBARD.

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