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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7261244 | Tie plate An electrically-insulated tie plate for electrically isolating parts of a railroad rail system from each other. The electrically-insulated tie plate includes a base plate having a recessed area for receiving a railroad rail and a layer of electrically-insulating mat... | 08/28/2007 |
| 6588677 | Rail boot An insulating rail boot encasing a rail embedded in concrete, asphalt or paver construction, including, shared right-of-way, dedicated right-of-way and at-grade crossing. The rail and the rail boot are secured in place by retaining clips. The rail boot ha... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6568601 | Boltless adjustable rail brace assembly with internal vertical restraint A rail brace assembly provides positive support for a stock rail mounted on a switch brace plate. The assembly includes a rail brace that it is installed over a fixed block attached to the brace plate. The block has a slot and a channel that accept a mati... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6517008 | Boltless adjustable rail brace assembly with external vertical restraint A rail brace assembly provides positive support for a stock rail mounted on a switch brace plate. The assembly includes a rail brace having a generally central opening that it is installed over a fixed clip housing attached to the brace plate. The clip ho... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6443363 | Support device for rails of railway tracks A support device which can be applied to rails (R) of railway or tram tracks includes a bracket (1) having two attachment parts (6) for attachment to the rail (R) on opposite sides of a sleeper (T), a resting part (4) which rests on the sleeper (T), and i... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6308897 | Lateral and vertical rail brace assembly A rail brace assembly for bracing a rail with respect to a tie plate. The rail brace assembly includes a brace member, a locking member, a retention member and a spring clip fastener. The brace member has a top surface adapted to engage a head fishing sur... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6305615 | Rail clip A rail clip that is generally symmetrical about a central axis. The clip has an L-shaped base section having a horizontal leg that is securable to a support member upon which the rail rest and a vertical leg that extends upwardly from the base adjacent to... | 10/23/2001 |
| 5842422 | Railway track In a vehicle track having longitudinal rail members positioned in parallel on either side of a track centerline and on which respective drive wheels and guide wheels of a vehicle move, the improvement including longitudinal rail members each having an asy... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5165598 | Resiliently mounted rail for rail vehicles A rail assembly in which the shanks of a rail between the head and the base have one pair of outwardly facing downwardly tapering flank surfaces and a frame flanking the rail has a pair of downwardly tapering inwardly facing flank surfaces spaced from and... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5158414 | Rail attaching device permitting longitudinal rail displacement A rail attachment device which allows for longitudinal displacement of a rail. The rail attachment device includes a first element fixedly supported to a ribbed plate and having a vertical arm extending essentially parallel to the longitudinal direction o... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5104041 | Rail brace assembly A rail brace assembly for buttressing the head of a traffic rail as a rail brace with upper and lower slanted surfaces adapted to engage corresponding surfaces on a traffic rail. The rail brace assembly includes a bearing insert having a main body portion... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5050797 | Rail fastening for points of railway tracks The fastening comprises a fastening shoe having, overall, an "L"-shaped cross-section, one of the branches of which is bolted with vertical elasticity to a sole-plate secured to a railway sleeper and the other branch of which is bolted with lateral elasti... | 09/24/1991 |
| 4940183 | Arrangement for fastening rails In an arrangement for fastening stock rails, wing rails or track rails (1) at the side being averted from the running edge, in which arrangement a strap (5) is pressed against the web of the rail with interposition of a leaf spring (9) or, respectively, o... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4824015 | Rail brace A rail brace assembly for buttressing the head of a rail resting on the top surface of a brace plate by engaging fishing surfaces formed on the head and base of the rail. The assembly includes a rail brace having an upper slanted surface for engaging the ... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4775103 | Elastically mounted rails for vehicle tracks A sound-damping rail assembly for a track for rail vehicles comprises a rail having a pair of downwardly converging flanks below its head and above its base. The rail is received in a frame with downwardly inclined sides, the flanks being braced against t... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4770342 | Adjustable rail brace An adjustable rail brace assembly for buttressing the head of a rail includes a rail brace having surfaces for engaging the head and the base of the rail and a vertically extending wedging face, a cover plate for retaining the brace having a vertical wedg... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4431087 | Guide rail clamping method and assembly A guide rail clamping method and assembly including a rail bracket attached to a building, a tapped intermediate support member, rail clips, bolts and nuts. The bolts are turned to tightly clamp the guide rail between the rail clips and intermediate suppo... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4350290 | Resilient rail fastener assembly for curved track A resilient rail fastener assembly for curved tracks includes a unitary base plate adapted to receive a load carrying rail which includes a pair of planar brace plates for maintaining the rail in a vertical orientation and reducing noise and vibration. Mo... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4119271 | Rail bracing system A combined rail fastener and brace for fastening rails to a railroad tie and to provide lateral bracing for the rail. The rail fastener and brace cooperates with a base plate secured to the railroad tie and includes a torsion spring member having one segm... | 10/10/1978 |
