Pins and wedges for railway sleepers - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 41758 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 159.03 FAGACEAE Quercus sp | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Pins and wedges for railway sleepers | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | United Kingdom | TDWG Region | United Kingdom | ||
| Parts Held | Pins and wedges for railway sleepers | Geography Description | Great Britain | ||
| Uses | Pins and wedges for railway sleepersUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles etc, outsize | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Ransome & May, Patentees, Ipswich | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Samples of Oak & Elm exhibiting the process of their compression for pins and wedges used for fastening the rail to the 'shoe' and 'sleeper' No 1 - Lengths of oak cut by vertical saw for the pins No II - Cut square from No I by circular sa, w. No III - Roughly turned out of No II. No IV - Finished off from No III ready to be compressed into the iron mould No V. No V - Iron mould with the pin No IV forced into it. No VI - Pin after being compressed in mould No V. No VII - Last process by, turning the ends of No V II. No VIII- Squared blocks of elm for wedges. No IX - No VIII bevelled at the edges to be inserted into an iron mould. No X - The compressed wedge from No IX. No XI - Finished off by trimming the edges at the ends. No XII -, Section of wooden beam (sleeper) transverse to rail-road. No XIII - Iron shoe which receives the rail. No XIV - Piece of the rail fixed in the shoe. No XV - Compressed pegs fixing the shoe to sleeper. No XVI - Compressed wedge fixing rail to shoe. No, XVII - Peg which has attached shoe to sleeper showing effect of expansion by moisture. No XVIII - Wedge which had fastened rail to shoe showing the effect of expansion by moisture. | ||||