Improvements in Hauling Apparatus.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 19th June, 1895-Accepted, 17th Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hauling Apparatus.
I, ALBERT TAYLOR, of Daisy Croft, Hipperholme, in the County of York,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention has reference to improvements in hauling apparatus, by means of
which trucks may be hauled up an incline and along a level track, or a track
which slopes slightly in the opposite direction, for tipping purposes and the trucks
again drawn up and allowed to descend the first incline by gravity their descent
being controlled by a hauling rope which connects them to the hauling apparatus
and which is provided with means for enabling additional lengths of rope to be
paid out as the tipping place or terminus recedes from the hauling apparatus.
The hauling apparatus comprises a hauling drum placed below the rails of the
track at the highest point on the slope driven by spur-gearing in one direction
only, and provided with a suitable brake. The driving pinion, preferably secured
upon the engine shaft, is capable of being caused to slide in and out of gear with
a spur wheel connected to the drum shaft by means of suitable levers, so arranged
that at a given time, as a full truck is hauled up the slope at a reasonable speed,
it will come in contact with a lever and move it so as to put the driving pinion out
of gear with the spur wheel on the drum shaft, thus freeing the drum. The
momentum of the truck is sufficient to carry the truck over the top of the hauling
drum and along the remaining portion of the track to the place where the truck is
to deliver its load.
The hauling rope, being still connected to the truck, will rotate the drum in the
opposite direction and so prevent the truck from travelling too far, and will enable
the drum to again haul the truck to the top of the incline which take place as soon
as the driving pinion is again thrown into gear with the spur wheel connected to
the drum. Another disengaging lever is struck by the returning truck which
throws the pinion again out of gear at the required time and allows the drum to
rotate in the opposite direction whilst the truck is descending the incline to the
filling end of the track, its descent being controlled by the brake on the hauling
drum.
It will thus be understood that the drum when drawing up a full truck on
one incline or returning the empty truck on the other incline or level road rotates
in the same direction.
The hauling drum is preferably made as light as possible on account of its
direction of rotation having to be rapidly reversed as the truck passes over it.
For enabling additional rope to be paid out to compensate for the end becoming
frayed or damaged or the point of delivery of the contents of the truck receding
from the hauling drum, a second or inner drum or barrel is inserted in the hauling
drum and on it the one end of the rope is coiled and secured. This inner drum or
barrel may be separately rotated by hand through a pinion gearing with a toothed
wheel on said inner drum or barrel, an opening being left in the periphery of the
hauling drum for the rope to pass through. By this means it will be seen that a
second layer of coils of rope need not necessarily be wound on the top of a first
layer of coils of rope to provide for the contingencies mentioned, if a sufficient
length of rope is wound on the inner drum or barrel.
Between the rails of the track, rollers are or may be provided to carry the rope.
These rollers may consist of detachable end plates mounted on a central shaft and

page_text: having formed in their, inner sides pockets into which wooden. bars are fitted; thus
when the end plates or flanges are pressed against the ends of the wooden bars,
the said bars are permanently secured. These rollers may be quickly and cheaply
repaired by inserting new wooden bars, they are light and can be easily rotated
by the hauling rope as soon as it rests on them. Rollers of other construction
may however be used if desired. The arrangement may be slightly modified to
suit different conditions of working, without departure from the essential features
of my invention.
Dated this 10 1.
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1001
ang Apparatus.
I, ALBERT TAYLOR, of Daisy Croft, Hipperholme, in the County of York,
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 has reference to improvements in hauling apparatus, by means of
which trucks may be hauled up an incline and along a level track, or a track which
slopes slightly in the opposite direction, for tipping purposes and the trucks again
drawn up and allowed to descend the first incline by gravity, their descent being
controlled by a hauling rope, which connects then to the hauling apparatus and
which is connected with means for enabling additional lengths of rope to be paid
out as the tipping place or terminus recedes from the hauling apparatus.
The hauling apparatus comprises a hauling drum placed below the rails of the
track at the highest point on the slope, driven by spur-gearing in one direction
only, and provided with a suitable brake. The driving pinion, preferably secured
upon the engine shaft, is capable of being put in and out of gear with the drum
shaft, by means of suitable levers, so arranged that at a given time, as a full truck
is hauled up the slope at a reasonable speed, it will come in contact with a lever
or its equivalent and move it so as to put the driving pinion out of gear with the
spur wheel on the drum shaft, thus freeing the drum. The momentum of the truck
is sufficient to carry the truck over the hauling drum and along the remaining
portion of the track to the place where the truck is to deliver its load.
The hauling rope, being still connected to the truck, will rotate the drum in th
opposite direction and so prevent the truck from travelling too far, and will enable
the drum to again haul the truck to the top of the incline, which will take place
as soon as the driving pinion is again thrown into gear with the drun. Another
disengaging lever is struck by the returning truck, which throws the pinion out of
gear with the drum at the required time. and allows the drun to rotate in the
opposite direction whilst the truck is descending the incline to the filling end of
the track, its descent being controlled by the brake on the hauling drum.
It will thus be understood that the drum when drawing up a full truck on the
incline and returning the empty truck on the other incline or level road, rotates
in the same direction.
The hauling drum is preferably made as light as possible on account of its
direction of rotation having to be rapidly reversed as the truck passes over it.
For enabling additional rope to be paid out to compensate for the end becoming
frayed or damaged, or the point of delivery of the contents of the truck receding
from the hauling drum, a second or inner drum or barrel is insertel in the hauling

page_text: drum and on it the one end of the rope is coiled and secured. This inner drum or
barrel may be separately rotated by hand through a pinion gearing with a toothed
wheel on the said inner drum or barrel, an opening being left in the periphery of
the hauling drum for the rope to pass through. By this means it will be seen
that a second layer of coils of rope need not necessarily be wound on the top of a
first layer of coils of rope to provide for the contingencies mentioned, if a sufficient
length of rope is wound on the inner drum or barrel.
Between the rails of the track, rollers are or may be provided to carry the rope.
These rollers may consist of detachable end plates mounted on a central shaft and
having formed in their inner sides, pockets into which wooden bars are fitted; thus
when the end plates or flanges are pressed against the ends of the wooden bars, the
said bars are permanently secured. These rollers may be quickly and cheaply
repaired by inserting new wooden bars, they are light, and they can be easily
rotated by the hauling rope as soon as it rests
on them. Rollers of other
construction may however, be used if desired. The arrangement may be slightly
modified to suit different conditions of working, without departure from the
essential features of my invention.
In the accompanying drawings
:-
Fig. 1 is a broken general side elevation, partly in longitudinal section, showing
one construction of hauling apparatus according to my invention, and
Fig. 2 is a plan of same with the driving engine in position.
Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively a side elevation and a plan, showing to a larger
scale the automatic disengaging mechanism and a starting lever;
Fig. 5 is a cross section of the hauling drum and gearing taken on the line c. .c.
of Fig. 4.
Figs. 6 and 7 are sections and end elevations showing the automatic disengaging
mechanism in its normal and in its operated positions respectively.
Fig. 8 is a cross section of the hauling drum and its internal drum taken on the
live
y. y. of Fig. 5 and showing the hauling rope extending from the internal to
the external drum or barrel ;
Figs. 9 and 10 are cross sections drawn to a still larger scale and showing the
rails and one of the automatic disengaging lever-arms in the positions represented
in Figs. 6 and 7 respectively.
Figs. 11 and 12 are sections, drawn to a larger scale, of guide rollers over which
the hauling rope passes.
A is the hauling drum (Figs. 1 and 2) placed between, and a little below the
level of the rails B and at, say, the highest point of the slope over which hauling
is desired.
It is formed of two end flanged discs A' and A² (Fig. 5) secured to the driving
shaft C and connected by a cylindrical wrought iron shell or barrel through which
is made a longitudinal opening D sufficiently wide to allow to pass through it one
end of the hauling rope E, which is connected to an interual paying out barrel F
(Figs. 5 and 8) which is mounted to rotate independently of, but on the internal
bosses of the end discs A¹ and A². These discs carry a short shaft F1 on which
is fixed a toothed pinion F2 that engages with a toothed wheel F³ secured on the
internal barrel F; the ends of the shaft F¹ are made square, one end for the
reception of a key or handle (not shown) for rotating it, and the other end for
that of a suitable catch F4, so that additional hauling rope can be paid out by
unwinding the internal barrel and that the said barrel can then be fixed relatively
to the druin A. by the catch F¹.
The drum shaft C is mounted in bearings secured to suitable supports or
foundation G, and is rotated by means of a toothed wheel C¹ from a pinion H on
the engine shaft H₁ (see Fig. 2.) The toothed wheel C¹ is free to revolve on the
shaft C but is held longitudinally thereon by fixed collars C² and C³ (Fig. 5).
The boss of the wheel is formed on one side with teeth which are adapted to
engage with similar teeth formed on a sliding clutch coupling J. between which
and the shaft C there is a feather and groove connection. The coupling J is slid

page_text: in and out of gear by means of a collar J¹ pivoted to a pair of lever arms K fixed
on a rock-shaft L that extends some distance on each side of the hauling drum A
and has fixed to it near its ends other lever arms M arranged at right angles to
the arms K. These arms M are connected by links M' to lever arms N
(Figs. 1, 3, and 4) secured to two sets of curved disengaging lever-arms P
which are fixed to rock shafts Q and are arranged in close proximity to the insides
of the rails B, or in any suitable position in which the flanges on the truck
wheels B, when travelling on the rails, will roll upon and depress them. The
arms P of each set are connected together by a stay bar Pl.
The arrangement is such that when the sliding clutch J is in gear with the
driving wheel C' portions of each pair of disengaging arms P will project above
the level of the track rails as shown in Figs. 1, 3, 6, and 9. Hence, when a
truck B2 is hauled up the incline from the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1
the flanges of its wheels B' will pass over and depress (Fig. 10) the set of lever
arms P on that side of the hauling drum and thereby, through the shaft L, arms K
and collar J, slide the coupling out of gear with the wheel C¹ (see Fig. 7), in
which condition it will remain until again put into gear by means of a starting
lever R fixed on the rock shaft L; and when the empty truck indicated by the
dotted lines in Fig. 1, is being hauled from the tipping end at the right hand of
the said figure, its wheels B will depress the other set of disengaging arms P
thereby again withdrawing the clutch, the hauling drum being thus allowed to be
rotated freely in the opposite direction by the hauling rope E, until controlled by
a brake band A3 which is operated by a foot lever S, whilst the truck is descending
the incline to the filling end of the track.
If desired, in lieu of employing a coupling J as described, the pinion H may be
made to slide along the engine shaft Hout of gear with the driving wheel C',
which, in this case, will be secured to the shaft C; but I prefer the arrangement
shown because I find it advantageous to reduce as much as possible the weight of
the parts in permanent rotative connection with the drum shaft on account of the
rapid reversal of the rotation thereof.
The disengaging mechanism is so balanced that the coupling J will tend to
remain in whichever position (engaged or disengaged) that it may be put into ; but
if desired the balancing of the mechanism may be such that the coupling will
always tend to assume its engaged position; when this is so, a suitable spring
catch R (see Fig. 7) is provided on the starting lever R which takes between
quadrant plates R2, having a slot formed therein at one end into which the end of
the catch drops as the coupling is thrown out of gear where it will remain until
released. By withdrawing the catch, the starting lever R can be moved into the
position shown in Figs. 5 and 6.
The distance apart of the rock shafts Q will to some extent depend upon the
speed of the hauling and the weight and size of hauling drum; but they should be
so placed that the drum will be disengaged before the truck is over the hauling
drum and yet will, on account of its momentum, gather up the slack of the rope
until the truck shall have passed it and cause the drum by its still connected
rope, to be rotated in the opposite direction until stopped by means of the brake
lever S.
Each of the disengaging lever-arms P is made with a curved free end and a
straight intermediate portion, so that a truck, advancing towards the hauling
drum from either direction, will first come into contact with the free curved end
and depress the arm and then, by means of the remaining flat portion will hold it
down for a short time to prevent rebound. Figs. 9 and 10 show the lever arms P
as having a slight flange at their inner sides and the lower flange of the inside of
the rail B as being cut away for the passage of the arms P, a strengthening
piece B2 being secured to this rail in substitution therefor.
The guide rollers T over which the hauling rope passes, are placed at convenient
intervals along the track. For lightness and cheapness in repairs they are niade
of wooden bars U (Figs. 11 and 12) fitted into recesses or pockets formed in

page_text: flanged end plates U', which are secured to a central shaft U by a set screw V,
so that, on releasing this screw and sliding one of the end plates U₁ endways on the
shaft U', new bars can be inserted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. In hauling apparatus, automatically disengaging the hauling drum from its
prime-mover by means of one or more lever arms arranged at one or at each side
of the hauling drum in such a manner as to be operated by a truck on its way
towards the hauling drum, the disengaging hauling drum being then free to be
revolved by its own momentum or by the pull of the hauling rope, substantially as
herein described.
2. In hauling apparatus, the combination of a hauling drum (with or without
an internal drum) adapted to be rotated in one direction only by a prime-mover,
disengaging-means whereby a truck, on approaching the hauling drum, will
automatically disconnect the hauling drum from its prime-mover, a brake for
controlling the rotation of the hauling drum in the direction for unwinding, and a
lever for reconnecting the hauling drum with its prime-mover and resetting the
said automatic disengaging-means substantially as herein described.
3. In hauling apparatus, a hauling drum formed with a longitudinal slot and
provided with an inner drum or barrel capable of being rotated independently of
the hauling drum and upon which can he wound an additional length of the hauling
rope, which passes through the said longitudinal slot, substantially as herein
described for the purpose specified.
4. My improved hauling apparatus comprising a hauling drum, with or without
an internal paying-out drum, driving mechanism for said drum, and means for
automatically disengaging the said hauling drum from the said driving mechanism,
these parts being constructed arranged and operating substantially as hereinbefore
described with reference to and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated LOIS 19th day of June 1899.
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.