IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANICAL APPLIANCES OR APPARATUS FOR COALING LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES, AND REMOVING ASHES FROM ENGINE PITS, LOCOMOTIVE DEPOTS AND OTHER PLACES
Year: 1884

page_text: We THOMAS MIDELTON, Engineer, and THOMAS SELLWOOD HUNTLEY, Auctioneer
both of the City of Sydney in the Colony of New South Wales do hereby declare
the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANICAL APPLIANCES OR
APPARATUS FOR COALING LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES, AND REMOVING ASHES FROM
ENGINE PITS, LOCOMOTIVE DEPOTS AND OTHER PLACES
and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-―
"
Our invention comprises a novel method of loading and transporting coals from
a colliery siding or ship's side to any point on a line of Railway by means of
square boxes made to fit a particular seat on a bogie platform, truck; or an
ordinary four-wheeled waggon may be used. These boxes may be made to suit
any required capacity or shape but a square shape with a capacity of ten hundred
weights is preferred as being easily stored and handled in loading or discharging.
These are lifted from the waggon by means of a revolving steam or hand crane
and tipped into the engine-tender standing on the main line, and are capsized, by
means of a tripping chain running over the end of the crane jib and hooked to the
box for this purpose; or by other suitable mechanical contrivance. The box when
emptied is self righting.
While the engine is coaling the ashes may be drawn from the ash-pan into one
of the coal-boxes placed in a travelling hopper guide or otherwise in the engine-pit
to receive the ashes, and when filled may be removed by the same crane as was
used for the coaling, and emptied in the same manner as above described into a
ballast or other waggon kept in reserve for this purpose, which, by preference,
should be attached to the crane engine and when loaded removed in the ordinary
way. This method weighs and also measures the coal and ashes and also reduces
the labor required in moving the coal and ashes to a minimum. The hopper guide
is movable by hand backwards or forwards in the pit as required, by means of
small wheels and rails laid below and inside the main rails; the box is dropped
into the hopper guide and may be made to rest upon a skeleton frame or clips.
[Price 4d1

page_text: The steam crane employed for this purpose may be fixed on the foot-plate of an
old Locomotive which may also be used for shunting purposes or may be fixed on
"
"Dubs steam crane may be used.
a platform waggon with propelling gear or a
This system is well adapted for a colliery siding, where convenient, thus saving
the cost of haulage from the mine to the coaling depôt with the usual labor and
expense of discharge from trucks to coal stages or platforms and thence to tender
as now practised.
The accompanying drawing shews the system of coaling at a colliery siding,
Locomotive or Coal Depôt: two kinds of crane are shewn thereon. The ground
plan shews the coal-waggon on one line, the cranes on the other, and the engine on
the main line, or the line to and from the running shed. Sections of the engine
pit and ash boxes are also shewn and the method of suspending the ash box on
wheels and frame. It will also be possible to place the coal waggon and ballast
waggon on the same line of rails as the crane engine, the latter being placed
between the two waggons.
We do not bind ourselves to the precise details herein given, as they may be
varied without departing from the nature of this invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
First. The method herein before described of coaling locomotives and removing
the ashes discharged from the same.
Second. The application of means substantially in the manner hereinbefore
described for the purposes specified.
D 10th dest of November 1884.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
For the Applicants.