OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR LOADING CARTS AND OTHER VEHICLES WITH NIGHT SOIL AND OTHER SOLID AND LIQUID SUBSTANCES
Year: 1879

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Robert Darrall at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th May 1879.
JAMES ROBERT DARRALL, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Gentleman..
"NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR LOADING CARTS AND OTHER VEHICLES WITH
NIGHT SOIL AND OTHER SOLID AND LIQUID SUBSTANCES."
The objects of this Invention, which relates to improved apparatus for loading
carts and other vehicles with night soil, sand, gravel, and other solid and liquid
substances, are to transfer the night soil and other debris from the midden direct
into the carts so as to obviate the nuisance of placing the same on the path or
roadway previous to being carted away, whereby a great saving in time and labor
is effected, no shovels being required for loading, and the necessity for the use of
disinfectants (and the cost thereof) is obviated.
The improved apparatus mounted and balanced upon side wheels for facility
of locomotion, and it is constructed with longitudinal side timbers fastened together
by iron stays and bolts, and grooved along the inside for the reception of rails, on
which a small soil-receptacle or wagon rests, and up and along which it is drawn
by ropes or chains passing therefrom around two grooved pulleys carried by the
upper end of the said side timbers, the ropes being drawn by a suitable arrange-
ment of winch mechanism.
The apparatus is also provided with a folding leg, which can be suitably
fastened up by a hook and chain or otherwise when out of use, so that the
attendant can then lay hold of a cross-bar of the framing and wheel the balanced
apparatus along as he would an ordinary hand cart, or it can be fastened behind
a cart, but which leg is intended to support the apparatus in an inclined position
when the latter is in use.
The said wagon or receptacle for the soil or other matter is preferably made of
galvanized sheet iron, and is hinged on the front one of its two axles to allow of
its being readily tilted over when drawn up to the top of the incline to empty
its contents into a cart or suitable receptacle, the back pair of wheels at the time
remaining upon the rails.
In using the above described improved apparatus, the soil, ashes, or other sub-
stances requiring to be removed is emptied from a wheel barrow wheeled on to a
small removable raised platform (or otherwise), and is tilted over the back of the
wagon thereinto; wagon and its load is then drawn up the incline by the
the

page_text: ropes and the said winch mechanism carried by the framing, and when at the top
thereof, upon the front wheels reaching certain stops, the pull of the ropes tilts the
rear of the wagon up, discharging its contents into the cart or other proper
receptacle intended to remove it away, the said cross-bar regulating the extent of
the said tilting of the wagon.
The cart or wagon to receive the soil is placed under the upper projecting end
of the above described apparatus, which projects about two feet over the cart.
The spindle of the winch handle can slide out of gear and is held when desired
by a catch, and the wagon is let down the incline for another load upon the handle
of a break being depressed.