IMPROVEMENTS IN Apparatus and MACHINERY FOR MAKING CONCRETE."
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Henry Le Mesurier, of 19, Clifton Road,
in Tranmere, in the County of Chester, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN Apparatus and MACHINERY FOR MAKING CONCRETE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Henry
Le Mesurier at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 24th July 1874.
I, WILLIAM HENRY LE MESURIER, of 19, Clifton Road, in Tranmere,
in the County of Chester, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS AND MACHINERY FOR MAKING
CONCRETE," to be as follows:-
My improvements consist in constructing and arranging apparatus
and mechanism for the above-named purpose of the following character:
-I connect the crusher for crushing or breaking the stone or other
concrete making material with an arrangement of revolving hoppers
framed together, and the whole apparatus revolving round on wheels,
and as the mechanism is worked round the broken stone or other

page_text: concrete making materials are supplied to each hopper successively, and
as the same is provided with a door its contents can be discharged on to
a travelling band, which conveys the same to the mixer. By this
arrangement the crusher can be kept constantly at work, for as soon as
one hopper is full or nearly so the apparatus is worked round, say a 5
couple of feet, and the next hopper which is empty is ready to receive
its feed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Henry Le Mesurier in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 22nd January 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HENRY LE MESURIER, of 19, Clifton Road, in Tranmere, in the County
of Chester, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of July, 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 successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Henry Lo Mesurier,
Her special licence that I, the said William Henry Le Mesurier,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said William Henry Le Mesurier, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, usc, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Ohannel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
AND MACHINERY FOR MAKING CONCRETE," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Henry Le Mesurier, my executors or admini-
strators, by an instrument in writing, under my, or their, or one of
their hands and scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be

page_text: 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 William Henry Le Mesurier, 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 :-
The object of this Invention consists in improving the construction
and arrangement of apparatus and mechanism for making concrete, so
as to facilitate and economise the same. To this end I connect the
crusher, when the stone or other concrete making material has to be
broken, with an arrangement of hoppers framed together, the whole
arrangement revolving round on wheels or otherwise. As the hoppers
are worked round the broken stone or other concrete making material
is supplied to each hopper successively, and as the said hoppers are each
provided with a door, the contents can be discharged on to an elevator
or travelling band, which conveys the materials to the mixer. By this
arrangement the crusher can be kept constantly at work, for as soon as
one hopper is full or nearly so the apparatus is worked round, say a
couple of fect, and the next hopper which is empty is ready to receive
its feed:
To render these arrangements of a portable character, in order that
they may be so used as to admit of their being moved from place to
place, and also to follow up the work on which the machinery is engaged
as it proceeds, I prefer using arrangements substantially of the character
as above described, where the materials for making the concrete are
delivered from the crusher (where one is used), or shovelled into the
hoppers when ballast or stone already broken is employed, and to have
the hoppers mounted on a bogie, and the mixer and elevator or
travelling band (the latter being hinged to the frame carrying the
mixer) also carried on wheels, so that in these transportable arrange-
ments the whole of the arrangements are in two parts, each part being
mounted on wheels.
If thought desirable I could use an arrangement of travelling band

page_text: As regards the arrangements shewn in Figs. 4 and 5, as will be seen,
the whole of the arrangements are in two parts, each part mounted on
wheels. The revolving hoppers are mounted on a bogie, and the mixer
is mounted on frame E, and at the point e the frame C carrying elevator
or travelling band B is hinged, so that the end e' may be raised from the
ground and retained by a clip at c¹, but when following up straight work
the end e¹ of the elevator may be suspended to the bogie under the hopper
turntable, and the whole moved as one machine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and
object of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed or carried out in practice, I hereby declare that I claim the
Invention of "Improvements in Apparatus and Machinery for Making
Concrete as the same is herein-before set forth and described, it being
understood that I do not claim the constituent details of the arrange-
ments described per se and apart from the purposes and objects of my
said Invention, nor do I limit myself to the use of the precise details
shewn by the Drawings and described with reference thereto, as the same
admit of variation without departing from the substantial characteristics
of my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Henry Le Mesurier, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of January,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
5 Witness,
W. D. THOMPSON,
129, Falkner S'.,
Liverpool.
W. H. LE MESURIER. (L.S.)