Corves.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Nov., 1886.
Specification Accepted, 14th Jan., 1887.
Corves.
I, WILLIAM CALOR Eastwood Lane, Rotherham in the County of York Slater,
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, that is to say :-
This invention is for an improved appliance for securing motties to Colliery Corves,
so as to prevent them being dragged off or otherwise damaged or lost during transit
from the workings to the weighman at the pit mouth, or other place, and also to
prevent the mottie being tampered with, and to enable a more correct account to be
kept, than by the present method.
The Appliance used to secure the above objects is illustrated in the accompanying
sheet of drawings, in which the same letters of reference indicate the same parts in
any of the figures in which they may occur.
Fig. 1, is a view of a part of the outside of a Corve to which my appliance for
securing the mottie, is attached, partly seen through an opening in the wood.
Fig. 2, is a back view of same.
Fig. 3, is a longitudinal section of same.
It consists of a metal plate A of a suitable size, for the purpose, to be fixed inside
the Corve B, and is provided with boltholes for that purpose.
Projecting from the back are two ribs C, their purpose being to strengthen the
plate A, and to afford protection for the locking lever D, and the mottie-cord E, from
the action of the coal when the corve is being filled.
F is a hole through the metal plate A, for the mottic-cord E to be passed through,
G is the mottie, (or number plate) secured upon the cord E, H is simply a guard of
wire or its equivalent placed across the face of the recess or holo, the outline of which
is marked I, to prevent the suspended mottie from being shaken out of the recess and
being caught and torn off the cord during transit. J is a metallic clip of tubular
shape nipped on to the cord so that it cannot be moved from its position, which will
always be inside the corve, this metallic clip is stamped with a number corresponding
with that upon the mottie.

page_text: Before the miner fills his corve he passes his mottie-cord from the front, through the
hole F, and raising the locking-lever D, he slips the loop over it, and drops it into
the position shown in Fig. 3. The mottie is then suspended in the position shown in
Fig. 1. and when the Corve is filled it cannot be removed except by removing the coal
from the back of the plate and unhooking the loop from the locking lever D. If
however the mottie should be either wilfully taken off, by cutting the cord, for a
dishonest purpose, or be torn off accidentally, the metallic clip J, will indicate to whom
the coal should be credited, and thus a cause of continual and very general complaint
will be avoided.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim, is :-
1 The improved appliance for securing motties to Colliery Corves, substantially as
hereinboforo described and illustrated.
2 The appliance for securing motties consisting of a front plate, such as A, a cord
hole F, a clip or Tally J and a locking lever D for the purposes specified, described,
and shown.
ROBT. F. DRURY,
Agent for the Applicant.