IMPROVED ARRANGEMENTS AND Appa- " RATUS FOR RAISING, TRANSPORTING, AND LOWERING MERCHANDISE AND WEIGHTS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred John Bray, of Bow, in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVED ARRANGEMENTS AND Appa-
"
RATUS FOR RAISING, TRANSPORTING, AND LOWERING MERCHANDISE AND
WEIGHTS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS,"
Sealed the 12th February 1875, and dated the 21st October 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred John Bray at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 21st October 1874.
I, ALFRED JOHN BRAY, of Bow, in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED ARRANGE-
MENTS AND APPARATUS FOR RAISING, TRANSPORTING, AND LOWERING MERCHANDISE
AND WEIGHTS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS," to be as follows:-
On a strong bed or foundation mounted on wheels there is a moveable.
horizontal disc carrying three, four, or more uprights bolted at the top
to a plate or frame carrying jibs and guide pulleys. The disc works on

page_text: a central pivot and can be turned to any required position, and on the
disc there are standards or frames carrying a drum to which is fixed one
end of a rope or chain which passes over the guide pulleys, and is con-
nected at the other end by a hook, link, or other contrivance with the
article to be raised and transported and lowered as required, the drum !
and
being turned by a winch and toothed gearing in the usual manner,
the ordinary breaks employed when lowering.
This apparatus, which can be made of any required strength, can be
used for hoisting or raising bales & merchandise from ships, trucks, or
any other place, and then transporting them and changing their positions
to enable them to be lowered as required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred John Bray in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 21st April 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
JOHN BRAY, of Bow, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Alfred John Bray, Her
special licence that I, the said Alfred John Bray, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred John
Bray, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven--
tion for "IMPROVED ÅRRANGEMENTS AND APPARATUS FOR RAISING, TRANSPORTING,
AND LOWERING MERCHANDISE AND WEIGHTS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alfred John Bray, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or.

page_text: their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months. next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent..
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred John Bray, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement and accompanying Sheet of Drawings, that
is to say :-
•
On a strong bed or foundation mounted on wheels there is a movable
horizontal disc carrying three, four, or more uprights bolted at the top
to a plate or frame carrying jibs and guide pulleys. The disc works on
a central pivot, and can be turned to any required position, and on the
disc there are standards or frames carrying a drum or drums, to which
is or are fixed one end of a rope or chain or chains which pass over the
guide pulleys, and is or are connected at the other end by a hook, link,
or other contrivance with the article to be raised and transported and
lowered as required, the drum being turned by a winch and toothed
gearing in the usual manner, and the ordinary brakes are employed
when lowering.
This apparatus, which can be made of any required strength, can be
used for hoisting or raising bales and merchandise from ships, trucks, or
any other place, and then transporting them and changing their positions
to enable them to be lowered as required.
In order that the Invention may be clearly understood, I have
hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings in which Fig. 1 is a front
elevation, and Fig. 2 an end view of the apparatus arranged for raising.
and lowering light merchandise.
A is the bed or foundation mounted on wheels B, and having bevil
gearing C on the axle for actuating the carriage, and a guiding wheel D
for facilitating the moving of the apparatus from place to place. The
movable disc is indicated in dotted lines at E, and F is the framework
or standards upon which is mounted two drums G, G¹, which are turned
by the winch H through the pinions I, I', and toothed wheels K, K³, :

page_text: The chains a, a', are attached at one end to the drums, and thence
passed over pulleys L mounted in the framework, and thence over
pulleys M carried by the arms N of the cranc, which arms are shown
hinged or jointed at O so as to be raised or lowered according to the
nature of the work to be performed, and the lower ends of the jibs P run
in guides in the framework F, and are fixed therein according to the
required elevation of the arms N.
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The action of the apparatus is as follows:-When the two arms of
the crane are being used the grapnel at the extremity of the chain a
on the drum G is attached to the merchandise or article to be raised,
and the pinion I being in gear with the toothed wheel K the drum G
is by the winch H caused to revolve and coil the chain a thereon, raising
the goods. When sufficiently raised, the brake, which may be of any
ordinary or suitable kind, is applied and the cranc turned upon the
movable plate E until the arm is in the position for lowering the
articles. The winch spindle is then shifted or moved in its bearings
so as to put the pinion I¹ in gear with the toothed wheel K', when the
said winch spindle will be in the position denoted in broken lines, Fig. 2.
The grapnel at the extremity of the chain a² on the drum G¹ is then
attached to the merchandise or article to be raised, and the winch is
turned, coiling the chain a' and the drum G, when the brake is again
applied and the apparatus turned upon the movable plate E, and the
winch spindle is again shifted or moved over to put the pinion I in gear
with the toothed wheel K.

page_text: into effect, I claim, the improved arrangements and apparatus for raising,
transporting, and lowering merchandise and weights of all descriptions,
substantially as herein described and shewn.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred John Bray, have here-
unto set my hand and scal, this Twelfth day of April, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.