Spike (Patent No: 262685)

Inventor: Barbeau, Philippe Joseph

Location: Edmonton

Comments: N/A

Description: Philippe Joseph Barbeau, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 20th July, 1926. Filed 9th May, 1925. Serial No. 302,540.

Claim.—A spike for railroads and the like including a shank suitably pointed at one end and enlarged at the other end to form a head, a central bore extending from the head to substantially midway of the shank, side openings, in the shank communicating with the extremity of said bore and slanting outwardly and downwardly from the centre, an anchoring pin adapted to engage with said bore cut out at its lower end to engage with the dividing element in the shank and split to substantially midway of its length to protrude on pressure being applied in curved formation through the side openings in the shank, a head on the pin to engage with the shank head whereby the pin is anchored to split on the dividing element in the shank to form anchoring means for the spike.

Claims allowed, 1.