Rail retaining device
AssigneeJude O. Igwemezie
InventorJude O. Igwemezie
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Abstract
A rail retaining device has a shoulder member for bearing on a lateral side of a rail flange. The shoulder has a downwardly facing abutment surface. A rail clip is of bent rod symmetrical about a vertical plane. The clip has an inner portion bearing on the flange, intermediate limb portions reacting with the abutment surface and flexed resiliently downwardly in the installed position, and an outer portion connected to each intermediate limb portion and extending arcuately outwardly and downwardly to a lower portion adapted to bear on a bearing surface.
Claims8
A rail retaining device comprising a shoulder member for bearing on a lateral side of a rail flange, and providing a downwardly facing abutment surface, and a rail clip in the form of a bent rod symmetrical about a vertical plane for extending laterally of the rail and having an inner portion for bearing on an adjacent flange in an installed position, intermediate limb portions for bearing upwardly on the downwardly facing abutment surface, and an outer portion connected to each intermediate limb portion for extending outwardly from said abutment surface and curving laterally arcuately outwardly and downwardly toward a lower portion adapted to bear on a bearing surface, and wherein in said installed position there is a reaction between the intermediate limb portions and the downwardly forcing abutment surface flexing the intermediate limb portions resiliently downwardly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.