Improvements in Loading and Unloading Goods or Materials.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 19th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 30th Jan., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Loading and Unloading Goods or Materials.
I, JOB JAMES HILL, Innkeeper, of Leek New Road, Milton in the Parish of
Norton in the Moors, in the County of Stafford, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to facilitate the loading and unloading of goods
and materials into or out of trucks, vessels or other conveyances and consists
essentially in packing or loading the material in square, oblong or other suitable
shaped metallic or wood cases or boxes of suitable capacities which when filled
with goods or materials are lifted by means of a crane into the vessel, truck or the
like and in unloading are lifted out by a crane and can be tipped to discharge the
contents when required by an arrangement provided for that purpose. When rails
are used and the goods or materials are required to be delivered at a distance
from where they are unloaded the metallic or wood boxes or cases may be provided
with wheels to facilitate the transit.
The boxes are each provided at the top edges of two opposite sides with eyelet
holes by which they can be attached to the chain of a crane and at the bottom of
one of these sides with a hook by which it can be attached to a fixed chain. To
discharge the contents of a box, it is raised by the crane, the bottom is then hooked
on to the fixed chain and on again lowering the case it will be tipped. The holes
and hook are arranged so as not to project beyond the sides of the box.
Dated this 2nd day of September 1891.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Loading and Unloading Goods or Materials.
I, JOB JAMES HILL, Innkeeper, of Leek New Road, Milton in the Parish of
Norton in the Moors, in the County of Stafford, 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 for its object to facilitate the loading and unloading of goods
and materials into or out of trucks vessels, or other conveyances and consists
essentially in packing or loading the material in square oblong or other suitable
shaped metallic or wood cases or boxes of suitable capacities which when filled
with goods or materials are lifted by means of a crane into the vessel, truck, or the
like and in unloading are lifted out by a crane and can be tipped to discharge the
contents when required by an arrangement provided for that purpose.
When
rails are used and the goods or materials are required to be delivered at a distance
from where they are unloaded, the metallic or wood boxes or cases may be provided
with wheels to facilitate the transit.
The boxes are each provided at the top edges of two opposite sides with eyelet
holes by which they can be attached to the chain of a crane and at the bottom of
one of the opposite sides with a hook by which it can be attached to a fixed chain.
To discharge the contents of a box, it is raised by the crane, the bottom is then
hooked on to the fixed chain and on again lowering the case it will be tipped.
The holes and hook are arranged so as not to project beyond the sides of the box.

page_text: In the accompanying three sheets of illustrative drawings :-
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Fig. 1. is a plan shewing the improvements for loading and unloading goods or
materials; and
Fig. 2. is a side elevation, and Fig. 3 is a part front elevation of the same.
Fig. 4. is a similar view to Fig. 2. shewing the manner in which the goods are
unloaded.
The material to be transported is packed or loaded in cases or boxes a of
suitable capacity and provided at the centre of the tops of the opposite ends with
loops 6 by means of which they can be attached to the hooks on the end of the
chain of a hydraulic or other suitable crane so that they can be readily raised and
deposited in the required positions. These cases or boxes a are made of a con-
venient size and so that a definite number exactly fit in a railway or other
desirable truck e by which they are transported to the desired place which is
provided with efficient means for unloading and dealing with the material or goods.
The boxes or cases a are also provided at the centres of the bottom edges of the
sides with loops d by which they can be attached to a hook on the end of a chain.
The loops band d are so formed that they do not project beyond the sides and
ends of the box or case. The unloading station is shown provided with a crane e
for raising, lowering, transporting and discharging the goods or materials. The
crane is arranged to travel on rails running longitudinally of a platform g
provided with hoppers for receiving the discharged materials. Shoots / fixed
to the hopper h lead to the desired place and are shown so that the contents
of the hopper can be readily discharged into carts drawn underneath the
shoots which are fitted with means for stopping or regulating the discharge of
the materials. As shown these regulating appliances consist of a series of parallel
bars m rigidly fixed on a shaft n passing through the shoot and which can be
rotated by means of the hand lever o to bring the bars m more or less across the
shoot to stop or regulate the discharge of material, or parallel with the bottom
of the shoots when desired to fill the carts i. The lever o can be fixed in any
desired position by means of a pin inserted in one of the holes of a sector
plate p.
b
g"
The material to be transported is loaded as above described in the boxes a which
are deposited in the trucks c and are transported to the desired place where their
loops are attached to hooks on the end of the hoisting chain of the crane e by
which they are raised out of the truck c and which is first traversed on the rails f
adjacent to the said truck; the crane is then revolved and if necessary again
traversed on its rails to bring the box a adjacent to the desired shoot 1, and one of
its hottom loops d is then hooked on to the fixed chain q attached to the crane
post and the box lowered thus tipping its contents as shown in Fig. 4, into the
hopper h the contents being guided by the shoot / to the desired spot.
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. The method of transporting materials or goods consisting essentially in loading
them in boxes or cases which can be readily handled and which are provided with
means whereby they can be readily tipped substantially as described.
2. The construction of the boxes a for receiv ng materials for transport provided
with non-projecting loops by means of which they can be readily supported and
tipped substantially as described.
3. The improvements in loading and unloading goods substantially as described
with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 19th day of December 1891
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, Agents.