End restraint for turnout
AssigneeAmsted RPS
InventorsWilbur Osler, Edward Constantine
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Abstract
An assembly for securing at least one rail to a substrate has a longitudinally extending rail plate extending across and secured underneath the rail and having a pair of opposite ends. Respective end restraints at the ends of the rail plate each have a jaw fixed to the respective end of the rail plate and each formed with a vertically throughgoing passage. A respective rigid anchor hood is fixed to the substrate in each of the passages with an outer surface of the anchor hood spaced inward from an inner surface of the respective passage and forming an annular space therewith. A respective rubber bumper mass fills each of these spaces so that forces transverse to the rail are transmitted through the bumpers to the anchor hoods.
Claims8
An assembly for securing at least one rail to a substrate, the assembly comprising:
- a laterally elongated rail plate secured underneath the rail and having a pair of opposite ends;
- respective jaws fixed to the ends of the rail plate and each formed with a vertically throughgoing passage;
- a respective rigid anchor hood fixed to the substrate in each of the passages with an outer surface of the anchor hood spaced inward from an inner surface of the respective passage and forming an annular space therewith;
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- a rubber bumper filling the space, whereby forces transverse ti and longitudinal of the rail from the rail plate are transmitted from the jaws through the rubber bumpers and shared by both of the anchor hoods in compression and tension.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.