Improved Means for Filling Crates and the like with Sheets and Plates of Glass.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, goth Dec., 1090
Complete Specification Left. 28th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 31st Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Filling Crates and the like with Sheets and
Plates of Glass.
I WILLIAM LEE PILKINGTON of St. Helens in the County of Lancaster,
Glass Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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Hitherto, crates and the like have been filled or packed by hand with sheets or
plates of glass, and in order to enable a reasonable quantity of sheets or plates to
be placed in a crate and also to facilitate packing,--the crates have been partitioned
centrally so making them more costly and cumbersome, besides which the process
of filling by means of placing therein one sheet at a time first at one side of the
partition and then at the other, was slow and costly. Partitioned crates may also
be used under my invention, but in this case the spaces to be filled with glass can
be each equal to the two spaces of the hand filled crate.
Now the object of my invention is to enable crates to be used without a central
partition so that they may be narrower for a given number of plates to provide
means for placing at one operation within the crate the whole number of sheets or
plates such crate is to contain, thus economising time and labour.
My invention consists essentially in collecting the desired number of sheets or
plates on a stand so made as to allow of the action of the apparatus hereinafter
described in raising the said sheets or plates in a body by means of grippers, and
when necessary giving them a quarter turn, in depositing the sheets or plates in a
body within the crate so as to carry the straw or packing with them and in releasing
and withdrawing the grippers.
Apparatus consists essentially of a movable hoist or crane provided with arms or
their equivalents fitted at their lower ends with locking or carrying pins or equivalent
devices. The arms pass down each side of the bundle of glass plates or sheets and
are coupled below by the pins or locking devices.
The frame carrying the arms is centrally suspended on a horizontal axis when
it is desired to give the sheets or plates a quarter turn.
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Improved Means for Filling Crates and the like with Sheets and
Plates of Glass.
I WILLIAM LEE PILKINGTON of St. Helens in the County of Lancaster,
Glass Manufacturer, 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 :—
Hitherto, crates and the like bave been filled or packed by hand with sheets or
plates of glass, and in order to enable a reasonable quantity of sheets or plates to

page_text: be placed in a crate and also to facilitate packing, the crates have been partitioned
centrally so making them more costly and cumbersome, besides which the process of
filling by means of placing therein one sheet at a time, first at one side of the partition
and then at the other was slow and costly. Partitioned crates may also be used
under my invention, but, in this case the spaces to be filled with glass can be each
equal to the two spaces of the hand-filled crate.
Now the object of my invention is to enable crates to be used without a central
partition so that they may be narrower for a given number of plates to provide
means for placing at one operation within the crate the whole number of sheets or
plates, such crate is to contain, thus economising time and labour.
My invention consists essentially in collecting the desired number of sheets or
plates on a stand so made as to allow of the action of the apparatus hereinafter
described in raising the said sheets or plates in a body by means of grippers, and
when necessary giving them a quarter turn, in depositing the sheets or plates in a
body within the crate so as to carry the straw or packing with them, and in
releasing and withdrawing the grippers.
Apparatus consists essentially of a movable hoist or crane provided with arms
or their equivalents fitted at their lower ends with locking or carrying pins or
equivalent devices. The arms pass down each side of the bundle of glass plates or
sheets, and are coupled below by the pins or locking devices.
The frame carrying the arms is centrally suspended on a horizontal axis when
it is desired to give the sheets or plates a quarter turn.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
The
Fig. 1 is a side view of apparatus under my invention, a. is a stand with blocks b.
upon which the desired number of sheets of glass b¹ are placed, care arms suspended
to the chain of a movable crane or hoist of any usual kind and passing down
each side of the bundle of sheets of glass. d are books at the lower ends of the arms
into which carrying pins e are placed such pins passing underneath the sheets of
glass and coupling the arms on each side of the bundle of sheets together. Any
convenient locking or carrying devices may be used instead of the pins e.
spaces between the blocks allow of the coupling pins e being readily inserted
into the hooks d. Fig. 2 is a side view, and Fig. 3 a cross section showing the
method of carrying my invention into practice. /. is a crate into which the sheets
of glass 6 after being raised off the blocks b by the movable crane are lowered
carrying before them if desired the straw or packing g. as shown in Fig. 3.
the sheets of glass rest on the bottom of the crate the coupling pins e are removed
when the arms c can be raised clear of the crate leaving the sheets of glass
therein. It will be obvious that though shown only with a crate without a partition
my said apparatus can also be used for placing sheets of glass in each compartment of
a partitioned crate.
When
Figs. 4 and 5 are side views, and Fig. 6 is a cross section showing the application of
my invention when it is required to give sheets of glass a quarter turn before depositing
them in a crate. The arms care provided with two sets of hooks d. d' at right
angles to each other and such_arms are suspended on pivots c² carried by rods c
attached to the crane chain. The sheets of glass b¹ are raised off the blocks 6 by
means of the pins e in the hooks d as shown in Fig. 4 aud the arms c together
with the sheets of glass are then turned a quarter turn so that the sheets rest on
the pins el in the hooks d' as shown in Fig. 5 when such sheets are lowered into
the crate as before described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
First. Placing sheets of glass in a package or crate with or without partitions
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page_text: Second. Apparatus for raising sheets of glass and lowering such sheets into a.
crate substantially as described.
Dated this 25th day of September 1896.
J. T. KING,
Agent.