Improvements in
Year: 1898

page_text: We, JOHN HENRY Cox, of 19, Pemberton Drive, in the City of Bradford, City
Surveyor, and JOHN MCTAGGART, of 171, Hammerton Street, Bradford aforesaid,
Refuse Destructor Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows :-
This invention relates to improvements in or appertaining to refuse destructors,
and its object is to facilitate the removal of clinkers or the like discharged from
the furnace.
For this purpose we employ an over-head line or railway leading from the
furnace door to the place where it is desired to deliver or deposit the clinkers.
From a wheel or runner upon this railway we suspend a carrier or skep so
arranged that it may be moved up to the furnace door to receive the clinkers
as they are raked or drawn out of the furnace. The carrier is mounted on
trunnions so that it may be readily tipped to empty it and to facilitate moving
the loaded carrier to the place where its load is to be emptied the railway pre-
ferably slightly inclines down to such place. After leaving the furnace the
railway may branch out into two or more branches.
Dated this 28th day of March 1898
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.
Improvements in or appertaining to Refuse Destructors.
We, JOHN HENRY Cox, of 19, Pemberton Drive, in the City of Bradford, City
Surveyor. and JOHN MCTAGGART, of 171, Hammerton Street, Bradford aforesaid,
Refuse Destructor Manager, 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:---
This invention relates to improvements in or appertaining to refuse destructors,
and its object is to facilitate the removal of the clinkers and the like discharged
from the furnace.
For this purpose we employ an over-head line or railway leading from the
furnace door to the place where it is desired to deliver or deposit the clinkers.
From a wheel or runner upon this railway we suspend a carrier or skep so
arranged that it may be moved up to the furnace door to receive the clinkers
as they are raked or drawn out of the furnace. The carrier is mounted on
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page_text: trunnions so that it may be readily tipped to empty it and to facilitate moving
the loaded carrier to the place where its load is to be emptied the railway pre-
ferably slightly inclines down to such place.
To fully describe our invention, reference is made to the accompanying sheet
of drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of
reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents a plan view of a destructor together with such parts of an
overhead railway as are necessary to illustrate the application thereto.
Figure 2, is an elevation of the same.
The destructor A has furnace doors on each side A2 and A3 and the over-
head line B is run along one side and the line 132 along the
other. These lines are secured to the hangers C fixed in any convenient
way to the roof or underside D of the floor above or to brackets on the
destructor itself until they pass out then such hangers are secured to the parallel
bar E (Figure 2) above supported at intervals on the cross girders F fixed upon
the pillars G. Each of the lines may branch out into two or more directions,
in which case the junctions are fitted with any suitable form of "points."
The carrier or skep H is connected by trunnions H to the frame H³ suspended
from the wheel or carriage J adapted to run along the line in either direction
when the carrier is pushed. Whilst the carriages are filled they are inclined
towards the furnace doors as shown at A³ (Figure 2) and the clinkers are dropped
directly into them, and hooks may be attached to the front of the furnace engaging
with rings or holes on or in the sides of the skep or vice versa as a means of
keeping the skep in position during filling. H, Figure 2 represents a side
elevation of one of the carriers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:-
:―
The combination with a refuse destructor of an overhead railway adapted to
support a travelling carrier or skep and enable it to be brought up to the furnace
doors, substantially as herein shown and described.
Dated this 23rd day of December 1898.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.