IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING COAL FROM RAILWAY WAGGONS TO VESSELS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Taylor of Penarth in the County of Glamorgan
for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING COAL
FROM RAILWAY WAGGONS TO VESSELS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Taylor at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th September 1883.
GEORGE TAYLOR of Penarth in the County of Glamorgan "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING COAL FROM RAILWAY WAGGONS TO VESSELS."
In order to diminish the weight to be raised in the staith, I provide a receiver
of special construction which may be used in the place ordinarily occupied by the
.tipping cradle or platform, into which receiver the waggon load is discharged
instead of running the waggon itself into the staith as usual. This receiver is
adapted to be raised in the staith in the same way as the tipping cradle or
platform now is, and it is so constructed and arranged as to be capable of being
moved horizontally in the staith or on adjustable ways extending towards the
vessel, whereby a portion or the whole of the receiver may be projected outwards
beyond the staith and over the conveyor or shoot by which the coal is transferred
from the staith to the vessel. The bottom of the receiver may be constructed of
hinged flaps or sections adapted to be self opening when unsupported in order to
discharge the contents of the receiver onto the conveyor or shoot.
In addition to or in lieu of the self opening bottom the receiver may be provided
with gear for tipping it.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Georgo Taylor in the Patent Office on the 15th March 1884.
GEORGE TAYLOR of Penarth in the county of Glamorgan IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING COAL FROM RAILWAY WAGGONS TO VESSELS
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In order to diminish the weight to be raised in the staith I provide receivers
within the staith for the purpose of receiving the coal from railway waggons
[Price 4d.]

page_text: discharged by any convenient method outside the staith instead of running the
loaded waggon into the staith and hoisting it. The receivers are adapted to be
raised in the staith in the same way as the tipping platform now is and is also
capable of being moved horizontally on adjustable ways in the staith and extending
beyond the staith whereby it may be projected outwards and over a shoot into
which the coal is discharged from the receivers for conveyance to the vessel.
I have illustrated the invention in the accompanying drawings wherein Figure 1
is a plan of the lower framing supporting the receivers at the receiving level.
Figure 2 is a plan, figure 3 is a side elevation and figure 4 an end elevation of the
framing supporting the receivers at the discharging level. Figures 5 and 6 are a
plan and side elevation of one of the receivers.
In figure 1 A is a frame fixed at the lower part of the staith having rails
inclining downwards towards the receiving point on which the receivers B which
are boxes on wheels, run down to that point. C is an open frame supported
within the staith by chains or otherwise so as to be adjusted to the required height
for discharging the receivers. This frame has angle iron rails D projecting from
its inner sides for the receivers to run on said rails being inclined in the opposite
direction to the incline of the lower rails. A section D¹ of the rails D at the
highest end is made in the form of a hinged flap capable of being raised by the
wheels of the receiver as the latter is raised through the frame C by any suitable
elevating apparatus, said section after the wheels have risen past them falling
down into line with the other part of the rails to support the receiver and enable
it to travel along the rails to the other end of the frame. This end C¹ of the frame
projects beyond the staith sufficiently to admit of the receiver being discharged
into a shoot the discharge being effected by dropping down the hinged bottom of
the receiver as shown in figure 6. At a suitable point in the rails D is a switch
.section or hinged flap like the one D¹ before described except that it is so weighted
so as to normally stand open; it is turned down by the wheels into line with the
rails when the receiver is wheeled out to the discharging point but remains open
when it is returned to allow the wheels of the receiver to be lowered through the
rails. E are guide sheaves over which the hoisting chains, that remain attached to
the receiver, are passed to enable the receiver to be lowered again to the frame A.
A series of these receivers would be used and the ordinary hoisting platform of the
staith would be dispensed with.
Having described the nature of the said Invention and the manner of performing
the same I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the
hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is:
The employment, in combination with a staith, of receivers and of oppositely
inclined ways at the receiving and discharging levels for running said receivers
upon, and of apparatus for transferring the receivers from the one level to the
other, substantially as shown and described for transferring coal from railway
waggons to vessels
In witness whereof. I the said George Taylor have hereunto set my hand and
seal this Fifteenth day of March A.D. 1884.