Spring type anchors
AssigneeTrue Temper Corporation
InventorGraham M. Fee
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Abstract
A one-piece spring-type rail anchor of substantially uniform wall thickness, for gripping the base of a rail having laterally projecting flanges, is comprised of a bowed throat portion, a pair of generally C-shaped members extending from opposing ends of the throat and adapted for engaging respectively opposite edges of the rail base, and a pair of bearing surfaces located at the junctures of the throat and C-shaped members for engaging the bottom of the base of the rail at spaced locations thereof, said rail anchor having a generally inverted U-shaped cross-section throughout.
Claims10
A one-piece spring-type rail anchor of substantially uniform wall thickness, for gripping the base of a rail having laterally projecting flanges, said anchor comprising:
- (a) a downwardly bowed throat portion;
- (b) a pair of generally C-shaped members for engaging the laterally projecting flanges of a rail base, said C-shaped members extending from opposing ends of said throat;
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- (c) a pair of rail bearing surfaces for engaging the base of said rail at spaced locations thereacross, said bearing surfaces being at the junctures of said C-shaped members and said throat;
- wherein said rail anchor has a generally inverted U-shaped cross-section comprised of a pair of substantially parallel side walls joined by a connecting web.
A one-piece spring-type rail anchor of substantially uniform wall thickness, for gripping the base of a rail having laterally projecting flanges, said anchor comprising:
- (a) a throat member;
- (b) a pair of generally C-shaped terminal members extending from opposing ends of said throat adapted for gripping laterally projecting flanges of a rail;
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- (c) bearing surface means at the juncture of said throat and terminal members for engagement with the base of said rail;
- wherein said rail anchor has a generally inverted U-shaped cross-section throughout.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.