Spring rail clip with tightening limiting feature

In a device for fixing and supporting a rail of a railway track which rail has a flange, comprising a support having a first portion defining a support table for the rail and second portions each having an upper surface higher than said table and defining a shoulder which extends upwardly from said support table at opposite ends of the support table, a pad interposed between the rail and the support table, an insulating clip having a body which is interposed between the shoulder and the flange and defines an aperture and a nose portion bearing against the flange of the rail, at least one elastically yieldable strip defining an aperture and placed on top of the clip to extend over the clip, the nose portion being interposed between the strip and the flange and the strip being located to be supported by said upper surface of one of said second portions, and fixing means extending through the apertures in the body of the clip and the strip for fixing the strip and clip to the support, the body of the clip comprising, on a side thereof opposed to the nose portion, a heel portion defining a first surface which faces toward said table and a second surface which is supported laterally against the shoulder, the body of the clip defining substantially in a center part thereof and upper face which is substantially parallel to the strip;

• the improvement wherein at least a part of said first surface is located so that it at least partly surrounds said aperture of the clip and is in abutting relation to said table, the arrangement being such that, beyond a predetermined tightening force exerted by said fixing means on the strip, the additional force is transmitted to the support through the body and the heel portion of the clip and said first surface of the clip and said table of the support.