Improvements in Apparatus for Facilitating the Filling of Sacks with Coal, Grain, or other Matter, and Weighing the same.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Sept., 1090
Complete Specification Left, 11th June, 1891-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Facilitating the Filling of Sacks
with Coal, Grain, or other Matter, and Weighing the same.
We HENRY COURT, Wireworker, and GEORGE COURT, Coal Dealer, both of
Crawley, in the County of Sussex, do hereby declare the nature of our said inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING THE FILLING OF
" to
SACKS WITH COAL, GRAIN OR OTHER MATTER AND WEIGHING THE SAME
be as follows:-
Our invention relates to an apparatus for holding sacks and supporting them in a
convenient position for, and while they are being filled, and weighing them when
full, and is intended more particularly to facilitate the unloading of goods in bulk
from railway trucks or otherwise into sacks for distribution &c. and renders
unnecessary the assistance of a second person for such operation.
Our improved apparatus comprises a vertical rod or bar preferably of iron, the
upper end of which is bent over so as to form about a quarter of a circle, and the
lower end of which may fit into or be attachable to a foot or stand, and may also be
provided with means for attaching it to the side of a railway truck or the like, for
which purpose we provide an arm the greater part of which is parallel or nearly so
with the main bar, and which arm may have a clamping screw or device near its
end, so that the side of the truck may be firmly grasped and held between the main
bar and the arm, and thus the bar be supported vertically.
To the upper end of the said bar is jointed a lever consisting of a cross-bar which
may conveniently be curved to correspond with the shape of the main bar, and one
end of which is formed into a hook for carrying the weighing apparatus and the
load, the other or tail end being nearly parallel with the main bar and serving as a
handle by moving which the sack may be lifted off or lowered on to the floor or
ground.
We provide a hook or other device for holding the said tail end of the lever, and
a guide if required.
To the other end, or short arm, of the lever, or cross-bar, we hang a spring-
weighing machine, or other weighing device, and from this we suspend a contrivance
for holding the sacks, consisting of a ring, to be inserted into the top of the sack
to keep it open, provided with eyes through which pass hooks which engage with
the loops commonly provided on coal sacks and the like, and which hooks are
suspended from an eye or ring which hooks on to the weighing apparatus.
We may provide for use with, or attached to, the above, a bracket or similar
device to be attached to the outside of a railway truck or the like, on which the
sack may be supported when not actually suspended for use, more particularly
while the truck is too full to admit of the apparatus being used within it.
Dated this 11th day of September 1890.

page_text: we provide a hanging platform T, Figs. 5, 6, 7 and 8, with a hoop O¹ take the
place of that marked O. Which hoop is riveted or otherwise fastened to the ends
of the bar R. The bar R' has near each end a screw thread on which is a nut w
with a spur or hook a on which the bars carrying the platform T are hung. By
rotating the nuts w they may be moved upwards or downwards on the screw so as
to adjust the distance from the platform to the height of the sack.
The bottom of the sack is placed on the platform T and the ring O' passed over
the mouth of the sack, the latter being slipped under and held by the spring clips t,
one of which is more particularly shown in Fig. 9. The hoop O¹ is made with two
joints u by means of which part of the hoop O' may be turned upwards as shown
in Fig. 6 whereby the attachment and removal of the sacks is much facilitated.
A convenient form of platform for use with our apparatus in the coal yard is
shown in Figs. 11, 12 and 13. It consists of a platform V, on wheels, from which
rises a frame U. The lower end of the bar A passes through an eye v provided
for that purpose, and above it is clamped to the upper bar by the arm B and
screw D.
Our said apparatus may be attached to a railway truck so that the sack shall
hang inside the truck on the floor thereof, or it may be placed on the outside of the
truck obliquely as shown in Fig. 10, so that the sack may be suspended that part
of the side of the truck which lets down, provided the latter is supported so as not
to fall below the horizontal position.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of our invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
(1) The hereinbefore described apparatus for facilitating the filling of sacks
substantially as set forth and shown.
(2) In an apparatus to facilitate the filling of sacks and weighing them, the
combination of the bar A, the lever I, spring i, guide L with stops m, weighing-
apparatus N, hooked-bar R and hoop O substantially as described and shown in the
drawings.
(3) In combination with the hereinbefore described apparatus carrying the
weighing device and supporting the hoop for holding open the mouths of the sacks,
the suspendible platform T and hoop O' with spring clips t for supporting and
holding sacks having no loops, substantially as described and shown.
Dated the Eleventh day of June 1891.
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicants.