Title: Reinforced concrete tie with embedded rail clamp means

Abstract: An assembly for fastening of railroad track incorporating a steel reinforced concrete tie with vertical thread steel sleeves welded to a reinforcement truss embedded in the concrete tie to which sleeves, track bolt assemblies may be threadably joined. A track bolt assembly includes a pair of hollow male threaded plugs, each threaded to a female thread in the opposed ends of a sleeve to retain a nut that is biased by a compression spring in the sleeve, to which nut, a track screw mounted to a hold-down block is engaged. With the hold-down block fixed against a track rail flange, the screw may be tightened in the nut of the sleeve to a pre-set tensile load as determined by the compression spring.

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Inventors: Schlesener, Milton E. (Herington, KS, US)

Application Number: 742190
Filing Date: 1976-11-16
Publication_date: 1978-05-23
Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc. (New York, NY)
Primary Class(es): 238/86 238/349, 238/377
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

962588	Jun, 1910	Randall et al.	238/90.
1051806	Jan, 1913	Eberhart	238/377.
1384070	Jul, 1921	Kapolkin	238/265.
3558050	Jan, 1971	Sonneville	238/349.

Other Refs: 418,951912,5351,192,919107,270

Jul, 1910	FR
Aug, 1946	FR
Oct, 1959	FR
Jun, 1898	DD

Primary Examiner: Hoffman, Drayton E.
Assistant Examiner: Rowold, Carl
Attorney: Podell; Howard I.