Improved Vehicle for Distributing Sand, Gravel, or the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 22nd June, 1894-Accepted, 11th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Vehicle for Distributing Sand, Gravel, or the like.
A communication by CONRAD HEER. of 21, Schönhoferstrasse, Nuremberg, in the
Empire of Germany,, Mechanic.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester both in the County of Lancaster and 323 High Holborn in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a spreading or distributing vehicle which is intended
to be used for sprinkling, with sand, gravel or the like, roads and streets, when
slippery with ice for instance.
In carrying it into effect, a horizontal spreading disc or wheel is set in rotation
by the wheels of the vehicle (wagon, cart or the like), on which disc the sand
contained in the vehicle falls and is thus distributed on all sides by the revolving
disc. The vehicle will be hereinafter called a cart, and the material which is to
be distributed, sand.
On the accompanying drawing:
Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of the sand distributing cart:
Figure 2, a rear view: and
Figure 3, a plan view with the cover removed of the same.
Figure 4 is a plan view of the distributing disc.
The body a of the cart is supported by the axle 6 of the two wheels c, which
axle passes through it, and it has further cross partitions a' a' which divide the two
sand receptacles aº aº from the chamber d which is closed by means of a cover d¹.
The above mentioned axle b passes through this chamber d, and a vertical spindle e
is also arranged in the same, which spindle has, at its upper end, a bevel wheel f,
and, at its lower end, the distributing disc g which is provided with furrows or
grooves. The bevel wheel h, which is mounted on the axle b of the wheels,
engages with the bevel wheelf, and thus, on the cart being moved along, the disc g
is set in rotation, and the sand which falls from the receptacles aº on to the disc is
distributed in all directions, but more particularly in front of the wheels and in
the path of the person who may, for instance, be pushing the cart.
The discharge openings of the receptacles a are capable of being closed by
means of hinged flaps i, which may be opened more or less, or entirely closed by
means of rods which may be hung on the hooks k. Sieves m are preferably
arranged over the discharge openings, in order to relieve the flaps from the weight
of the material above them, and also to retain any stones.
The legs n are intended to prevent the cart tipping up.
Dated this 14th day of October 1893.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMIDELE SI PRIVATIO
Improved Vehicle for Distributing Sand, Gravel, or the like.
A communication by CONRAD HEER, of 21, Schönhoferstrasse, Nuremberg, in the
Empire of Germany, Mechanic.
1, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6 Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, and 323, High Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, 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 :-
This invention relates to a spreading or distributing vehicle which is intended to
be used for sprinkling, with sand, gravel or the like, roads and streets, when
slippery with ice for instance.
In carrying it into effect, a horizontal spreading disc or wheel is set in rotation
by the wheels of the vehicle (wagon, cart or the like), on which disc the sand
contained in the vehicle falls and is thus distributed on all sides by the revolving
disc. The vehicle will be hereinafter called a cart, and the material which is to be
distributed, sand.
Referring to the drawings filed with the Provisional Application―
Figure i is a vertical longitudinal section of the sand distributing cart ;
Figure 2, a rear view; and
Figure 3, a plan view with the cover removed of the same;
Figure 4 is a plan view of the distributing disc.
The body a of the cart is supported by the axle b of the two wheels c, which axle
passes through it, and it has further cross partitions a' a' which divide the two
sand receptacles a° a° from the chamber d which is closed by means of a cover d'.
The above mentioned axle 6 passes through this chamber d, and a vertical spindle e
is also arranged in the same, which spindle has, at its upper end, a bevel wheel f,
and, at its lower end, the distributing disc g which is provided with furrows or
grooves. The bevel wheel which is mounted on the axle 6 of the wheels, engages
with the bevel wheel f, and thus, on the cart being moved along, the disc
is set in
rotation, and the sand which falls from the receptacles a on to the disc is
distributed in all directions, but more particularly in front of the wheels and in the
path of the person who may, for instance, be pushing the cart.
The discharge openings of the receptacles a° are capable of being closed by
means of hinged flaps i which may be opened more or less, or entirely closed by
means of rods which may be hung on the hooks k. Sieves m are preferably
arranged over the discharge openings, in order to relieve the flaps from the weight
of the material above them, and also to retain any stones.
The legs n are intended to prevent the cart tipping up.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
--
1. An improved vehicle for distributing sand, gravel or the like in which the
sand falls from a receptacle in the vehicle onto a disc g revolved from the axis
of the wheels of the vehicle, and is distributed by said disc, whilst flaps i for
regulating the quantity of sand discharged, and sieves or lattices m for relieving
the flaps, are provided at the discharge openings of the sand receptacles,
substantially as described and illustrated.
2. In a distributing vehicle of the kind described in Claim 1, the arrangement
of a distributing disc g which is provided with furrows or grooves on its upper

page_text: side in order that the sand may be distributed as evenly as possible to all sides
by centrifugal action.
Dated this 21st day of June 1894.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.