Improvements in Apparatus for Elevating and Transferring Grain and other Granular Materials.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 14th May, 1889-Accepted, 22nd June, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Elevating and Transferring Grain
and other Granular Materials.
I ALPHARAON BOLINO of 103 rue de la Republique, Marseilles in the Republic
of France Ship Owner do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to be as
follows:--
This Invention relates to apparatus for elevating and transferring grain and other
granular materials such as salt, sand, cement and the like. The apparatus is more
particularly designed for effecting the removal of grain etc from the holds of ships
and elevating and transferring it to wharves or warehouses and for transferring
grain etc. from wharves or warehouses to vessels and the invention is based on a
novel application of a helix or screw with one or more threads in combination with
certain special accessory arrangements as hereinafter described. The apparatus may
work either in a vertical inclined or horizontal direction or in any desired combination
of these directions.
An apparatus constructed according to this Invention is composed of a tube made
in any desired number of lengths or sections connected by flanged or socket joints
and provided with rings by which they are supported. In the interior of this tube
works a screw or helix preferably provided with two threads and made in sections of
the same length as the sections of tube, the shaft of the screw being supported at
each end by a transverse bar attached to the tube. The ends of each section of the
shaft are so formed as to present teeth or alternate projections and recesses which
engage one with the other.
Rotary motion is imparted to the screw preferably at the rate of about 300
revolutions per minute from a suitable motor driving a bevel or other toothed wheel
fixed on the shaft of the screw. The arms of this wheel form continuations of the
screw and the wheel on the screw shaft is enclosed in a casing provided with an
opening for the connection with the driving wheel and the casing is provided with an
annular ridge which engages with a corresponding recess in the wheel to prevent the
grain from working out through the opening.
When the apparatus is employed for moving the grain in vertical and in horizontal
directions simultaneously the vertical part of the tube is connected to the horizontal
part or parts by a spherical casing in the interior of which the shafts of the vertical
and horizontal screws are connected by a universal joint. The said spherical casing
is connected to the tubes by two junction pieces one of which is arranged to allow of
a rotary motion of the casing relatively to the vertical tube the other being connected
to the horizontal tube by a ring of leather or flexible material attached to a sliding
plate working in an elongated opening in the side of the spherical casing in order to
admit of the tube being turned in any direction horizontally and vertically within
certain limits. The vertical tube may be similarly connected with a horizontal tube
at both ends if desired.
The lower end of the tube being placed in communication with the mass of grain
or other material to be elevated or transferred the screw is caused to rotate rapidly
and propels the materials through the tube delivering them at the upper end at any
desired elevation or distance. Any suitable arrangement of framework may be
employed to support the tubes and driving gear.
Dated this 15th day of
1000
0
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Elevating and Transferring Grain
and other Granular Materials.
ALPHARAON BOLINO of 103 rue de la Republique, Marseilles in the Republic of
France Shipowner 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 apparatus for elevating and transporting grain and other
granular materials such as salt sand cement and the like. The apparatus is more
particularly designed for effecting the removal of grain etc. from the holds of ships
and elevating and transferring it to wharf's or warehouses and for transferring
grain etc. from wharfs or warehouses to vessels and the invention is based on the
novel application of a helix or screw with one or more threads in combination with
certain special accessory arrangements as hereinafter described: The apparatus may
work either in a vertical inclined or horizontal direction or in any desired combination
of these directions.
And in order that my said invention may be fully understood shall now proceed
more particularly to describe the same and for that purpose shall refer to the several
figures on the annexed sheet of drawings the same letters of reference indicating
corresponding parts in all the figures.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in vertical section an apparatus
constructed according to my invention.
Figure 2 is an elevation of half of one of the spherical casings forming the
connection between the vertical and horizontal tubular sections.
Figure 3 drawn to a smaller scale represents the apparatus arranged for removing
granular material from the hold of a ship.
The apparatus constructed according to this invention is composed of a tube A
made in any desired number of lengths or sections connected by flanged joints B
each section of tube being provided with rings a by which it may be supported in
position as indicated in Figure 3 for example. In the interior of this tube a screw
or helix C preferably provided with two threads fitting closely to the inner surface of
the tube rotates on a shaft c the screw being made in sections of the same length as
the sections of the tube. At each end of these sections the shaft c is supported by a
transverse bar b attached to the tube. The ends of each section of the shaft are so
formed as to present teeth or alternate projections and recesses e' which engage one
with the other as seen in Figure 1. This or any other suitable coupling or clutch
fits into a bearing formed in the centre of the transverse bar band is secured in gear
or in the connected position by tightening up the flanged joints B.
Rotary notion is imparted to the screw C from a suitable motor driving a bevelled
or toothed wheel fixed on the shaft of the screw and enclosed in a casing d
having a lateral opening through which the toothed portion of the bevelled wheel D
projects so as to engage with the teeth of a driving wheel D'. The casing is provided
with an annular ridges which engages with a corresponding recess in the wheel D so
as to prevent the grain from working out through the opening between the wheel and
The arms of the bevelled wheel D form continuations of the screw so that
he passage of the grain may not be impeded by the wheel.
the case.
The tube A may be employed either in a horizontal inclined or vertical position
for transporting or elevating grain from one place to another. When the grain is
moved in vertical and horizontal directions simultaneously, the vertical or ascending
part of the screw is connected to the horizontal part or parts by means of a swivel
or universal joint K which transmits the motion from one part of the screw to the
other.
This universal joint is enclosed in a spherical casing F and moves in the body or
centre of the grain thus preventing it from becoming blocked in the said spherical
casino.

page_text: The said spherical casing is provided with two junction pieces A' A2, one of
which A¹ is jointed to the sphere in such a way as to allow the casing to revolve on
the axis of the vertical tube, the other junction piece A2 being connected to the
horizontal tube by a ring or collar e of leather or other flexible material attached to
a sliding plate f working in guides g on the inner side of the spherical casing in
order to admit of the two sections of the tubes being adjusted at different angles
relatively to one another by displacing either or both horizontally and vertically
within certain limits, these limits depending on the size of an aperture / formed in
the casing F. The vertical tube may be similarly connected with a horizontal or
inclined tube at both ends it desired. In all cases the vertical tube is kept in an
upright vertical position while the horizontal tubes at both ends of the vertical tube
may be placed at any inclination or in any direction desired. An example of this
arrangement is seen in Figure 3, where the apparatus is represented as being
employed for emptying the hold of a ship.
The installation is very simple and may be effected as follows. The motor M is
secured on two cross beans t fastened to the coamings of the hatches, the upright or
vertical tube with its bevelled wheel D in gear with the corresponding driving
wheel D' passes through the bed plate or support. A junction piece A2 which with the
spherical casing forms the connection between the vertical and upper horizontal tubes
is fastened to the casing of the bevelled wheel. The grain is conveyed through the
pipes A to the quay Q. The vertical tube of the apparatus may be increased in
length by adding successive sections of tubes as the level of the grain sinks; and
to the lower end of the vertical tube a horizontal tube and screw are connected by
means of a universal joint enclosed in the hollow sphere F as hereinbefore described:
by this means the grain or granular material may be taken up from all parts of the
hold. The action of the screw or helix propelling the grain or the like through the
tube will be readily understood on referring to the drawing without further
explanation. Both the raising and the transporting the materials are effected
automatically.
Although only one apparatus is shown here as being propelled by the engine it is
evident that two or more might be driven by the same motor. To obtain good results
the screw C should make about 300 revolutions per minute. The apparatus may be
constructed of any materials and dimensions to suit the nature of the work for which
it is intended.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. For elevating and transferring grain and other granular materials; the
employment of a screw or helix having one or more threads working inside a tube of
corresponding internal diameter supporting the screw at its extremities in such a
manner that the said screw is capable of rotating on its axis and of propelling the
materials in the direction of the length of the tube substantially as hereinbefore
described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination of parts composed of a screw or helix C and a tube A the said
screw being formed in sections connected at their extremities by clutches or couplings
and the said tube being likewise formed in sections connected by flanges B so that
the apparatus can be extended to any desired depth or distance to or from which the
materials are to be elevated or transferred substantially as hereinbefore described
with reference to the accompanying drawings.
3. In combination with the tube and screw sections the spherical casings F
constructed in two parts with the junctions piece A' A² connected by a swivel or
universal joint connecting the elevating and transporting devices whereby an apparatus
is obtained having vertical and horizontal transporting mechanism capable of being
adjusted in any desired direction or at any desired angle relatively to the vertical
part the said spherical casings being arranged substantially as hereinbefore described
with reference to the accompanying drawings.

page_text: 4. The general arrangement and combination of parts constituting an apparatus
for elevating and transferring grain or the like consisting of a vertical or elevating
tube and two horizontal or conveying tubes the said tubes being composed of any
desired number of sections and connected by spherical casings or connecting spheres f
provided with two junction pieces and a universal joint working in a closed casing
and actuated by any suitable motor which may be arranged to form part of the fixed
section of the apparatus or otherwise substantially as hereinbefore described with
reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated thin 14th 1
1000
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
Agents.