Improvements in Apparatus for the Transport of Material, and Provided with an Automatic Tipping Contrivance.
Year: 1892

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for the Transport of Material, and
Provided with an Automatic Tipping Contrivance.
I, CARL SCHÜTT of Gnoyen, Mecklenburg, in the German Empire, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
3ame is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :—
This invention relates to an apparatus designed for the easy transport of
material and provided with an automatic tipping conveyance applied to the
transporting vessel or waggon.
This invention is particularly applicable to the transport of milk or cream cans
in dairies.
With the present day progressing state of dairy farming and the improved
capabilities of milk creaming machinery such as separators and the like it is
necessary to transport in the shortest possible time great and heavy masses of
cream.
Hitherto this was accomplished by manual labour and therefore very inconveniently
as well as non-expeditiously.
My improved apparatus is intended to solve the following problem :-How is the
cream received in large receptacles in order to collect in a vessel a full or sufficient
quantity to make butter and how are these large vessels to be transported to the
cooling room and from the cooling room to the churn?
Two or three men are usually required to stand by the butter churn ready to
raise the heavy vessels and to tip them in order to pour out their contents into the
said churn or the cream must be transferred to the same by means of small vessels
thus causing a great waste of time.
With the new apparatus a boy is capable of easily transporting the beavy vessels
(containing for instance about 400 kgs.) of material without any assistance and
without making use of any tools or other special appliance and the transporting
vessel need not be touched either when being moved along or when being tipped.
Thus not only is an economy of time and power effected but no waste is liable
through spilling.
In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a side view and Figure 2 a front view
of my improved apparatus.
Upon the rail fixed to the bracket a arranged overhead runs a carriage or
traveller c mounted on the wheels c'.
The carriage e carries a frame d in which another frame e provided with racks e¹
and journal bearings e³ is capable of moving up and down as hereinafter more fully
described.
The journals frest in these bearings e being fixed to the cream vessel f.
The rack rods e and with them the frame e carrying the vessel ƒ are raised by
means of the crank handle g and of the gear wheels 1, 2.
The conveying vesself turns upon a pin f' and the churn upon a pin h¹.
A hook (which is prevented from falling down by a bracket k or in any other
suitable manner and is fixed to the pin h¹) is placed when the vessel is raised upon
the pin of the latter and effects the tipping thereof as it (i.e. the vessel f) is being
still further raised as shown in dotted lines in Figure 1.
In order that the vessel may be moved forward or backward at the same time
the whole frame can be moved forward and backward as shown in the drawings the
slant indentations in the wheels allowing such a position to be taken.
It is obvious that the tipping motion can also be effected by one end of the hook

page_text: being laid upon the pin f' while the other is placed upon any suitable fixed pin or
fixed on any convenient point for instance on the guiding frame below.
This mode of transport and the automatic tipping may be also applied to other
purposes such as for foundries.
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 :-
An apparatus for transporting, raising, and automatically pouring out the con-
tents of one vessel into another by means of a balancing and hoisting arrangement
which raises the first vessel such as funtil a pin f2 fixed thereto engages with a
hooked rod i secured to the second vessel such as whereby a further lift of the
first vessel causes the first vessel to be tipped into a suitable position for pouring
out its contents or receiving a charge substantially in the manner and for the
purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated in the drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated this 4th day of May 1892.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.