AN IMPROVED TURNTABLE AND WEIGHING MACHINE COMBINED
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jonathan Ireland, of the City of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, and Samuel Davies, of Hollinwood, in the said
County, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED TURNTABLE AND WEIGHING
MACHINE COMBINED."
Sealed the 9th July 1866, and dated the 10th January 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jonathan Ireland and
Samuel Davies at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 10th January 1866.
We, JONATHAN IRELAND, of the City of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, and SAMUEL DAVIES, of Hollinwood, in the said County, dv
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED TURN-
TABLE AND WEIGHING MACHINE COMBINED," to be as follows:-
We place within the external ring forming the outside of the turntable
three or more levers, the centres of which may be placed in a circular,
triangular, hexagonal, or octagonal form, and coupled in the centre to a

page_text: transfer lever which is connected to the steelyard; we also attach a relieving
apparatus to the transfer lever, so as to raise and lower it. When the said
lever is lowered the machine is a turntable, and when raised it is a weighing
machine.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jonathan Ireland and Samuel Davies in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 9th July 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JONATHAN
IRELAND, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, and SAMUEL
DAVIES, of Hollinwood, in the said County, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of Iler
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Jonathan Ireland and Samuel Davies, Her special license that
we, the said Jonathan Ireland and Samuel Davies, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Jonathan
Ireland and Samuel Davies, our 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, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "AN IMPROVED TURNTABLE AND WEIGHING MACHINE COMBINED,"
upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Jonathan Ireland and Samuel
Davies, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our, or 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 we, the said Jonathan Ireland and Samuel Davies,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement (that is to say) :-
This Invention consists in improved arrangements for combining a weighing

page_text: machine and turntable for enabling wagons, goods, and other matters to be
weighed with accuracy when on the turntable, which improvements will be
clearly understood by the following particular description thereof, reference
being bad to the figures and letters on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings,
in which Fig. 1 is a plan, and Fig. 2 a section of one of our weighing
machines and turntables combined, and Fig. 8 a detached view of some of
the parts.
Within the circumference which encloses the turntable a, Figs. 1 and 2,
we place three triangular-shaped levers b, the six swing centres c of which are
close to the circumference equidistant from each other, and the said three
levers 6 are connected or shackled near the centre to a triangular plate d,
Figs. 1, 2, and 3, which is suspended from the transfer lever e. On the three
levers 6 there are six stool centres f which carry the stool g which supports
the table, and the end of the transfer lever e is connected to the relieving
apparatus h for raising and lowering the lever and steelyard. When the
transfer lever is raised the three levers b are raised at the same time, and also
the stool g which lifts the table and supports it above the anti-friction pulleys í,
and then the weighing machine can weigh any wagon or merchandise which
is placed upon the table. After weighing, the relieving apparatus is reversed
so as to allow the transfer lever e, the levers b, the stool g, and table a to
be lowered, the table, however, only falls on the pulleys i and the centre pin k
into the cup 1, but the stool falls lower apart from the table, so that, when
required, the table can be turned without touching any part of the weighing
machine.
We do not confine ourselves to the use of only three triangular-shaped
levers, as we may employ four, five, six, or more, and connect or shackle
the levers near the centre to a plate suspended to a transfer lever, the said
plate being square, hexagonal, octagonal, or other required form. The
arrangement of three or more triangular-shaped levers with their corresponding
number of swing and stool centres may be applied with advantage to circular
weighing machines uncombined with turntables.
Having now described the nature and particulars of our said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, we desire it to be
understood that we claim,-
First, the application of three or more triangular-shaped levers connected
or shackled to a triangular or other shaped plate suspended from the
transfer lever, and six or more swing and tool centres, to circular weighing
machines, and the combination of these improved weighing machines with
turntables.

page_text: And, secondly, the general arrangement of the weighing machine and turn-
table combined, as such improvements are herein described and illustrated in
the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
in
In witness whereof, we, the said Jonathan Ireland and Samuel Davies,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Sixth day of July,
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the within-named Jonathan
Ireland and Samuel Davies,
in the presence of
E. J. HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
JONATHAN IRELAND. (L.S.)
SAMUEL DAVIES. (L.S.)
Manchester.