Resource Type

Rail-Joint. (open access)

Rail-Joint.

Patent for a rail joint that consists of a chair with a base plate and inwardly projecting flanges, a rail web, two plates that hook under the flanges and hold the rail in place, and two bolts that go through the plates and the rail.
Date: June 19, 1894
Creator: Perkins, Miles O.
System: The Portal to Texas History