Improvements in or Pertaining to Ways for Travellers Designed to Carry Suspended Loads.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 16th July, 1887
Complete Left, 28th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 29th Mar., 1888
Improvements in or Pertaining to Ways for Travellers Designed to
Carry Suspended Loads.
We, ARNOLD GOODWIN, and ARNOLD GOODWIN the younger, both of No. 56, Sumner
Street, Southwark, in the County of Surrey, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
For the purpose of moving heavy articles from one place to another in workshops
and elsewhere, travellers are used which in some cases are in the form of small
vehicles to which the load is suspended and the wheels of which vehicles travel on
rails or ways that are in some cases the flanges at the respective sides of the webs of
overhead girders of H or equivalent section. Such rails or ways are herein called
ways.
As they are ordinarily arranged if it be desired to move any article from a place
located below the line of the way to one situated one side thereof and therefore
along another way running in a direction at an angle to the first, it is the practice to
lower the load, disconnect it from one vehicle and connect it to another vehicle travelling
on the second way. This involves considerable loss of time and labour, to obviate which
according to this invention the ways are arranged at right or other suitable angles
to one another, but so that they do not intersect or meet; turn-tables or shunts are
provided arranged in such a manner as to enable a vehicle with its load to be
readily moved from one line of way to another; and stops are provided whereby all
the ways are blocked except that (if any) for which the turn-tablo is for the time
being set.
In some cases the turn-tables are provided with anti-friction wheels.
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in or Pertaining to Ways for Travellers Designed to
Carry Suspended Loads.
We, ARNOLD GOODWIN, and ARNOLD GOODWIN the younger, both of No. 56 Sumner
Street, Southwark, in the County of Surrey, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
For the purpose of moving heavy articles from one place to another in workshops
warehouses mills the undersides of decks of ships and elsewhere, travellers are used
which in some cases are in the form of small vehicles to which the load is suspended
and the wheels of which vehicles travel on rails or ways that are in some cases the
flanges at the respective sides of the webs of overhead girders of H or equivalent
section. Such rails or ways are herein called ways.
As they are ordinarily arranged if it be desired to move any article from a place
located below the line of the way to one situated to one side thereof and therefore
along another way running in a direction at an angle to the first, it is the practice to
lower the load, disconnect it from one vehicle and connect it to another vehicle
travelling on the second way. This involves considerable loss of time and labour, to
obviate which according to this invention the ways are arranged at right or other
suitable angles to one another, but so that they do not intersect or meet, turn-tables or
shunts are provided arranged in such a manner as to enable a vehicle with its load to
be readily moved from one line of way to another and stops are provided whereby all
the ways are blocked except that (if any) for which the turn table is for the time
being set.
In some cases the turn tables are provided with anti-friction wheels or
balls.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings
Fig. 1 shews partly in elevation and partly in vertical section an overhead line of
way provided with a turntable or shunt according to this invention.
Fig. 2 shows in plan a top view in different planes parts thereof.
Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line X. Y. Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is an underside view.
A is a table or plate arranged to revolve on antefriction balls B supported by an
annular plate C fixed to the four adjacent ends of two pairs of girders G, G and G¹ G
which form two lines of way arranged at right angles to each other and secured
overhead as shewn in Fig. 1.
His a length of way secured to the underside of the table or plate A and constituting
therewith a turntable or shunt; it has a cross section corresponding with that of each
line of way and is of such a length as to fill the space between the adjacent ends of
each pair of girders G. G or G G¹ when turned into line therewith. D, D, are
curved downwardly projecting plates, constituting guards or stops secured to the
underside of the table or plate A so as to revolve therewith; they are arranged as
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page_text: shown so as to block that line of way for which the turn table or shunt is not set-In
figures 1 and 4 these guards or stops block the way G' G¹, and prevent a vehicle
thereon leaving such way at the break or space between two parts thereof, when the
turn table or shunt has been so turned that the part H thereof is in line with the
way G, G. E, E, are downwardly projecting plates fixed to the underside of
the annular plate C; they serve as guards or stops to prevent a vehicle I after being
run on to the length of way H (as shewn in dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 3) leaving
such way, during the rotation of the turn table or shunt to transfer the vehicle from
one line of way to the other..
F is a catch lever pivotted to one of the girders; one of its arms is weighted and
adapted to take into one or other of four notches or slots formed in the table or
plate A and thus to lock it with the length of way H in line with one or other of the
line of ways G. G. or G¹ G¹. A chain or cord may be secured to the other end of
the lever to enable it to be raised out of a notch or slot. To transfer a vehicle from
one line of way to the other, it is run on to the length of way H which is, or must
be placed in line therewith. The turn table is then unlocked and the turn table or
shunt partly rotated which may conveniently be done by turning either the load
carried by the vehicle, or the lifting tackle, until the way H is in line with the length
of way along which it is desired the vehicle should run.
The turntable or shunt is then relocked and the vehicle run off.
By suitably forming the slots or notches into which the catch lever takes, the
turntable will be locked automatically in the proper position-It is evident that the
ways may be at other angles than right angles and that three four or other number of
ways may meet in one turntable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
1. An overhead way for travellers designed to carry suspended loads comprising
fixed lengths of way arranged at suitable relative angles with space between them and
a moveable length of way arranged substantially in the manner herein before described
to operate as a turntable or shunt which receives the vehicle carrying the load from
one length of way and which can be turned to direct the vehicle on to another length
of way.
2. The combination with a turntable such as referred to in claim 1 of guards or
stops arranged to automatically block all the ways leading on to the said turntable
except those for the time being in line with the way on the turntable substantially as
described.
3. The combination with a turntable such as referred to in claim 1 of guards or
stops arranged to prevent a vehicle leaving the turntable except when the way on the
said turntable is in line with one of the fixed ways substantially as described.
4. The suspended turntable constructed arranged and operating substantially as
described with reference to the drawings annexed.
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ARNOLD GOODWIN.
ARNOLD GOODWIN, JUNR.
W. Lloyd Wise,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.