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US 5,150,835 AGranted
Rail support adjusting and fastening device
OwnerAkio Yamamotoinventor
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Abstract
A rail support adjusting and fastening device according to the present invention is used in such a state that tilting of each of the rails and the gage of a track are briefly adjusted in advance by connecting members (cross ties and the like) for connecting parallel rails to one another when the track is directly laid onto a concrete bed as a direct fastened track.
Claims3
A rail support adjusting and fastening device for parallel rails of a directly fastened track which is used to adjust a gage and tilting of the rails prior to laying the track, comprising:
- a rail support plate (8) for supporting an under surface (6) of a bottom portion (5) of the rail in a state of a spot support, said rail support plate having at an outer side portion thereof a threaded portion (15) where a screw hole (16) is formed to extend vertically,
- a supporting bolt (11) having an upper threaded portion (17) at an upper portion thereof to be threaded with the screw hole (16) and a lower portion of said bolt is formed to be tapered to gradually become more slender downwardly and constructed such that the height of the rail support plate (8) can be adjusted by rotation of the supporting bolt (11),
- two spot supporting portions (7) projected from upper outside portions and one spot supporting portion projecting from an upper inside portion of the rail support plate (8) to form points of a triangle so as to support the under surface (6) of the rail bottom (5) at three points on the under surface (6) of the rail bottom, each of said spot supporting portions (7) being provided with rail spot support surfaces so as to form a plane which is tilted to fit a tilting of the rail,
- inside and outside spot pressing portions (10) provided with the rail support plate (8) to press the inside portion and the outside portion of the upper surface (9) of the rail bottom portion (5) in the state of spot supporting, said inside and outside spot pressing portions being made rigidly so as not to deform at a time of being pressed by said pressing portions, said inside and outside spot pressing portions being further constructed to press the inside portion and outside portion, respectively, of the upper surface (9) of the rail bottom portion (5) at an intermediate portion between the two spot supporting portions (7) adjacent in a longitudinal direction of the rail and at both side portions of the one spot supporting portion opposite to said two spot supporting portions (7) respectively, such that all three spot supporting portions contact the under surface of the rail bottom portion,
- said spot pressing portions (10) for pressing the upper surface (9) of the rail bottom portion (5) at the intermediate portion between the two spot supporting portions adjacent to one another being provided with the rail support plate (8) integrally, and said inside and outside spot pressing portions (10) for pressing the upper surface (9) of the rail bottom portion (5) at both side portions of the one spot supporting portion being constructed to be a movable pressing section,
- said movable pressing section including a pair of pressing bolts (27) and pressing members (25),
- said each pressing member (25) being provided with a base portion (20) of a semicircle configuration which is engaged with an engaging step (22) formed at an upper surface portion of the inside of the rail support plate (8), and provided with a forward end under surface portion (21) to be in contact with the upper surface (9) of the rail bottom portion, and also provided with an elongated vertically extending bolt hole (23) adapted to receive a pressing bolt therethrough, said rail support plate including pressing bolt screw holes, and
- said each pressing bolt (27) being constructed to be screwed with each of said pressing bolt screw holes (26) of the rail support plate (8) through each of the elongated bolt holes (23), so that each of the forward ends under surface portions (21) of the pressing members (25) press the upper surface (9) of the rail bottom portion (5) onto the spot pressing portions.
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