Mechanism for securing rails of railways on wooden sleepers
OwnerD. Jesus Moreno Espinosainventor
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Abstract
A rail-to-wood sleeper fastening mechanism in railroads, consisted of a clamp having an upper and middle branch fixed to the lower face of a sleeper, and with a pair of lateral and hinged branches, constituting the clamp, going through the sleeper via chimneys, and presenting upper and bent ends, sliding on the upper face of a foot of a rail, when respective wedges are inserted into said chimneys, that can be optionally configured by establishing a hinged union which is removable between the side branches of the clamp and its lower and middle branch, so that said side branches are easily installed and removed.
Claims9
A rail-to-wood sleeper fastener for a railroad, comprising:
- an elastic wedged clamp having a lower portion adapted to be fastened to a lower face of a sleeper, said clamp further having two side branches that are connected with said lower portion, each of said side branches extending through a corresponding one of a pair of chimneys in said sleeper, each of said side branches connected to top end bent portions adapted to contact an upper face of a foot of a rail;
- a pair of hollow wedges each of the hollow wedges extending into the respective chimney in said sleeper and exerting pressure onto a corresponding one of said side branches, each of said hollow wedges including a cogged bar facing a corresponding one of said side branches, each cog of said cogged bar cooperating with a hook on a corresponding one of said side branches to allow each of said wedges to advance into a corresponding one of said chimneys and to resist the removal of said wedge from said corresponding chimney.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.