Adjuster for track-mounting assembly
AssigneeAmsted Rail Company, Inc.
InventorEdward Constantine
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AssigneeAmsted Rail Company, Inc.
InventorEdward Constantine
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A mounting plate fixed to a longitudinally extending rail is secured by a plurality of bolts in a substrate. The mounting plate is formed at each bolt with an array of ridges. An adjuster plate formed with a vertically throughgoing transversely elongated slot through which the respective bolt extends has a lower face formed with an array of downwardly projecting generally complementary to the ridges of the mounting plate and an upper face formed with a central recessed seat defined between two longitudinally extending and parallel edges at a predetermined transverse spacing. A gauge plate formed with two parallel outer edges spaced apart by a distance substantially equal to the transverse spacing of the seat edges and with an eccentric circular hole of a diameter substantially equal to an outer diameter of the shank of the respective bolt that extends vertically through the circular hole fits in the seat.
In combination with a substrate to which a mounting plate fixed to a longitudinally extending rail is secured by a plurality of bolts anchored in the substrate, each bolt having a cylindrical shank extending through the mounting plate and a head bearing downward on the mounting plate, the rail plate being formed at each bolt with an array of transversely uniformly spaced and upwardly projecting ridges, respective adjusters at each of the bolts and each comprising:
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