IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR TIPPING OR UPSETTING COALS, MINERALS, OR OTHER SUBSTANCES, AND IN BRAKE MACHINERY
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Rigg, senior, and Arthur Rigg, junior, both
of Chester, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
TIPPING OR UPSETTING COALS, MINERALS, OR OTHER SUBSTANCES, AND IN
BRAKE MACHINERY."
Sealed the 26th October 1858, and dated the 8th June 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Rigg, senior, and
Arthur Rigg, junior, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 8th June 1858.
We, ARTHUR RIGG, senior, and ARTHUR RIGG, junior, both of Chester, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR TIPPING OR UPSETTING COALS, MINERALS, OR OTHER SUBSTANCES, AND IN BRAKE
MACHINERY," to be as follows:--
The apparatus consists of a table or framing mounted on axles, on which
framing or table the receptacle or wagon containing the material to be upset
is held firmly. On the axle there is a brake wheel surrounded by a band,
which is connected to a lever which moves between fixed guides, on which
guides there are ratchet teeth into which a click on the lever takes, so
that the brake can be left tight in any position on the brake wheel; there
are also teeth into which a click enters, so that after the coals or other
substances have been upset, the moveable parts are prevented from returning
until the click is released. The receptacle or wagon containing the material
to be upset is placed on the framing or table, in such a position that the centre
of gravity is beyond the axles, so that when the brake is released, the framing
and wagon tilt over, and the speed at which they are allowed to tilt is

page_text: regulated by means of the brake; the framing or table is so weighted that
when all the coal or other substance has been upset, and the click released
from the teeth on the brake wheel, the framing or table resumes its first
position. To the front of the table or framing is fixed a scoop or screen, with
or without sides, which receives and guides the coal or other substance as it
slides or falls to the spot required, or a scoop or screen may be fixed in front
of each receptacle or wagon. Brake apparatus constructed as above described
is also applicable to other machinery.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Arthur Rigg, senior, and Arthur Rigg, junior, in the Great
Scal Patent Office on the 8th December 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ARTHUR
RIGG, senior, and ARTHUR RIGG, junior, both of Chester, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Ler heirs and successors, give and graut unto us, the said
Arthur Rigg, senior, and Arthur Rigg, junior, Her special licence that we,
the said Arthur Rigg, senior, and Arther Rigg, junior, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Arthur Rigg,
senior, and Arthur Rigg, junior, our executors, administrators, or 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 "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR TIPPING OR UPSETTING COALS, MINERALS, OR OTHER
SUBSTANCES, AND IN BRAKE MACHINERY," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said Arthur Rigg, senior, and Arthur Rigg, junior, our executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their hands and
seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, 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 Arthur Rigg, senior, and Arthur
Rigg, juuior, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in aud by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The apparatus consists of a table or framing mounted on axles, on which
framing or table the receptacle or wagon containing the material to be upset
is held firmly. On the axle there is a brake wheel surrounded by a band,
which is connected to a lever which moves between fixed guides, on which
guides there are ratchet teeth into which a click on the lever takes, so that
the brake can be left tight in any position; on the brake wheel there are also
teeth into which a click enters, so that after the coals or other substances have
been upset, the moveable parts are prevented from returning until the click is
released. The receptacle or wagon containing the material to be upset is
placed on the framing or table in such a position that the centre of gravity is
beyond the axles, so that when the brake is released, the framing and wagon
tilt over, and the speed at which they are allowed to tilt is regulated by means
of the brake; the framing or table is so weighted that when all the coal or
other substance has been upset, and the click released from the teeth on the
brake wheel, the framing or table resumes its first position. To the front of
the table or framing is fixed a scoop or screen, with or without sides, which
receives and guides the coal or other substance as it slides or falls to the spot
required, or a scoop or screen may be fixed in front of each receptacle or
wagon. Brake apparatus constructed as above described is also applicable to
other machinery.
Ilaving thus described the nature of our Invention, we will proceed to
describe more fully the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1, Sheet 1, shews a side view, and Figure 2, Sheet 1, an end view
of an apparatus (constructed according to our Invention) for tipping or
upsetting coal, minerals, or other substances. A is the table or framing
mounted on axles B, B, on which table the wagon or receptacle containing
the material to be upset is placed. On the axle B there is a brake wheel C,
which is surrounded by a band D, one end of which is fixed to the short arm
and the other to the longer arm of the lever E, as is shown more clearly at
Figure 1, Sheet 2, which is a side view of the brake wheel and lever separately.
The lever E turns on a centre at F, and the longer arm of the lever works
between fixed guides G, G, on which there are ratchet teeth, into which a
click E on the lever E falls, so that the brake may be left tight in any
position. Before placing the receptacle or wagon containing the material to
be upset on to the framing or table A, the band D around the brake wheel C

page_text: is tightened by depressing the lever E, and the click E' entering a tooth in
the guides G, G, keeps the band tight. The wagon containing the material
to be upset is then wheeled on to the framing until it is stopped by the curved
ends of the rails II, on which the wheels of the wagon run. The ends of these
rails are, as is shown by dotted lines at Figure 1, Sheet 1, bent over parallel
with the table A, a little above the wheels of the wagon, so that they hold
down the wagon when the frame is tilted. The rails H, H, do not stop the
wagon until its centre is beyond the axles, so that when the brake is released
the table and wagon tilt over, and the speed at which they are allowed to tilt
is regulated by the brake: On the raised rims at the side of the brake wheel
˚C there are also teeth, into which a click C on the lever E enters, so that
after the coals or other substances have been upset, the moveable parts are
prevented from returning until the click C' is withdrawn. The framing or
table A is so weighted that when all the coal or other substance has been
upset, and the click C¹ released from the teeth in the brake wheel E, by
pulling back the rod I by the handle I, the framing or table A resumes its
former position. The empty wagon is then to be wheeled off the table, and
another receptacle containing coal or other substance to be upset placed on it,
when the operation is repeated. To the front of the framing A is fixed a
scoop or screen K, which receives and guides the coal or other substance as it
leaves the wagon and slides to the spot required, or in place of there being a
scoop or screen fixed to the table A, a scoop or screen may be fixed in front
of each receptacle or wagon. Brake apparatus constructed as above described
is also applicable to other machinery.
In witness whereof, we, the said Arthur Rigg, senior, and Arthur
Rigg, junior, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Thirtieth
day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-eight.
Witness,
S. BEESLEY,
Chester.
ARTHUR RIGG.
(L.S.)
ARTHUR RIGG, JUN. (L.S.)