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Nathan Holmes

July 18, 2006 09:57PM

The claim made in the original patent was that by having a fishplate that was even with the railhead (thus partially carrying the wheel), as well as a bottom plate to support the joint, there would be little to no flex of a joint as a wheel passed over, thus eliminating wear on both the track structure and on the wheel.
His later patents seem to give up the idea of having the outside fishplate even with the rail and focused on using the integrated baseplate to minimize joint motion.

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Weber Patent Rail Joint	John Liebson	July 18, 2006 04:30PM
Re: Weber Patent Rail Joint LINK PIC	Nathan Holmes	July 18, 2006 05:39PM
Re: Weber Patent Rail Joint LINK PIC	Nathan Holmes	July 18, 2006 05:54PM
And the original LINK PIC	Nathan Holmes	July 18, 2006 05:57PM
Re: Weber Patent Rail Joint LINK PIC	Nathan Holmes	July 18, 2006 05:58PM
Re: Weber Patent Rail Joint	John Liebson	July 19, 2006 02:27AM
Re: Weber Patent Rail Joint	RGSW	July 18, 2006 08:23PM
Re: Weber Patent Rail Joint	Nathan Holmes	July 18, 2006 09:57PM
Re: Weber Patent Rail Joint	Ron Keagle	July 18, 2006 10:46PM
Re: Weber Patent Rail Joint	David E. Lamson	July 19, 2006 03:27PM
Re: Weber Patent Rail Joint	Philip H. Walters	July 19, 2006 11:24PM

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