Improvements in Apparatus for Loading and Conveying Coal and other Materials.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 12th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 21st Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Loading and Conveying Coal and
other Materials.
I, FRANCIS LEY of Vulcan Iron Works, Derby, Engineer and residing at Manor
House, Barrow-upon-Trent near Derby do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
:-
The conveyer as is customary has an endless chain armed with blades or scrapers
but this chain in place of lying in a vertical plane as is usual is arranged to work
in a trough surrounding the motive power engine and lying in a horizontal or
inclined plane. The engine and conveyer are pivotted upon a truck preferably a
railway truck so that they turn together. The conveyer is also pivotted about the
main axle of the engine so that it can be tilted to any angle without throwing the
engine out of gear. The endless chain of the conveyer passes around chain wheels
in the trough, one of which carries a worm wheel driven by a worm upon a shaft
driven by a chain wheel from the main axle of the engine.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Loading and Conveying Coal and
other Materials.
I, FRANCIS LEY of Vulcan Iron Works, Derby, Engineer, and residing at
Manor House, Barrow-upon-Trent, near Derby, 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 :-
The conveyer as is customary has an endless chain armed with blades or scrapers
but this chain in place of lying in a vertical plane as is usual is arranged to work in
a trough surrounding the motive power engine and lying in a horizontal or inclined
plane. The engine and conveyer are pivotted upon a truck preferably a railway
truck so that they turn together. The conveyer is also pivotted about the main
axle of the engine so that it can be tilted to any angle without throwing the engine
out of gear. The endless chain of the conveyer passes around chain wheels in the
trough, one of which carries a worm wheel driven by a worm upon a shaft driven
by a chain wheel from the main axle of the engine.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a plan, and Figure 2 a side elevation of an apparatus constructed
according to my invention.
A is the endless chain armed with blades or scrapers B and working in the
trough C which surrounds the motive power engine D. The engine and conveyer
are mounted on a platform E free to turn about a pivot F being supported on
rollers G running on a ring carried by the railway truck H. The conveyer is also
pivotted on the main axle D' of the engine D. The chain A passes around chain
wheels J J and J'. The wheel J carries a worm wheel K driven by the worm L
upon the shaft L' which has fixed upon it the chain wheel M around which passes
the chain N driven by the chain wheel O upon the shaft D'.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A conveyer arranged in a trough surrounding the motive power engine
substantially as described.
2. A conveyer arranged in a trough surrounding the motive power engine and
pivotting about the main axle of the engine substantially as described.
3. A conveyer arranged in a trough surrounding the motive power engine, the
conveyer and engine being mounted on a platform pivotted on a truck substantially
as described.
4. A conveyer arranged in a trough surrounding the motive power engine,
pivotting about the main axle of the engine and driven by a worm and worm wheel
driven from the engine substantially as described.
5. A conveyer substantially as described and shown in the drawings.
Dated this Fourth day of September 1891.
FRANCIS LEY.