IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING AND MOVING EARTH AND OTHER MATTERS AND BODIES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Monument, of Myrtle Street, Dalston, and
George Berry, of Buttesland Street, Shoreditch, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING AND MOVING EARTH AND OTHER
MATTERS AND BODIES."
Sealed the 4th May 1860, in pursuance of an Order of the Lord Chancellor,
كيم
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Monument and
George Berry at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 8th October 1859.
We, HENBY MONUMENT, of Myrtle Street, Dalston, and GEORGE BERRY, of
Buttesland Street, Shoreditch, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING AND MOVING EARTH AND OTHER
MATTERS AND BODIES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for raising and
moving earth and other matters and bodies. For these purposes the axis of
a drum or cylinder receives motion by having thereon a ratchet wheel which
is actuated by a driver applied to a lever consisting of a series of long bars
which come together near the axis of the drum or cylinder; but diverge from
each other so that their outer ends are at such a distance apart that a man
cau conveniently reach the next-lever when he has depressed the previous one."

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It is preferred to use four levers one above the other for this purpose, but the
number may be varied. The outer end of the second lever being about two
fect from the first, and the third two feet from the second, and so on, whatever
be the number of levers used, and the levers and driver or drivers are so
arranged that when the uppermost of the levers has been depressed to its
lowest position the combined series of levers is then lifted so as to commence
again with the first or lowest lever of the series. One end of a rope or chain
is fixed to the cylinder or drum, and it has at its other end a hook which
passes over a pulley and is then brought down and hooked to a bar or stud on
the raising apparatus which is combined as follows:-The vessel in which the
earth or other substance or body is contained, and which is to be raised with
the vessel is suspended from a horizontal bar by two descending hooks, one
fixed to each end of the horizontal bar. The horizontal bar has two uprights
fixed on its upper surface, which are provided at their upper ends with hooks,
and below such hooks there is a small bar to which the hook of the raising
chain or rope is hooked when the vessel with its contents is about to be raised.
The hooks at the upper ends of the two uprights are arranged in such manner
that when they have been lifted to the proper height they are guided over
supports carried by the frame of the pulley, over which the lifting chain or
rope is passed, and such supports will then take and uphold the weight of the
vessel and its load and allow of the hook at the end of the lifting chain or rope
being unhooked. The frame of the pulley has a grooved wheel or pulley which
is carried by a wire rope fixed in an inclined direction, and it is so supported
and arranged that when a vessel or a series of vessels has been raised by
apparatus such as above described it will descend by its gravity to any desired
place at a greater or less distance from the point to which the vessel or series
of vessels is raised. And in order to cause such vessel or series of vessels to
be tipped so as to empty the load therefrom at a determined point of the
incline, apparatus is arranged as follows:-A lever is used having at its
forward end a pulley or grooved wheel which rests under the inclined rope or
way, and by so doing the other end of the lever which has its axis on. the
frame which carries the pulley over which the lifting rope or chain is passed,
retains a bar which it carries in a proper position for a hook at its lower end
to uphold the end of a lever in such a position as to retain the vessel from
tipping until the pulley or wheel has run along the under surface of the rope
or inclined
ome to an incline which will cause the wheel or pulley
and the end of the lever which carries it to be depressed, which will release
the connection of the other lever with the vessel, and thus allow the vessel
to tip. Supposing only one such vessel and apparatus be used then the lifting
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page_text: rope or chain is continued in connection therewith, and the rope or chain is
allowed to unwind from the drum or cylinder as the vessel descends down the
inclined rope or way, but if several such vessels and apparatus are used the
pulley frames of all the vessels are combined together and they are allowed in
succession to descend to the position where the vessels are loaded. And when
one has been loaded the end of the lifting rope or chain is attached to such
vessel, and it is raised by the combined levers and drum or cylinder as above
explained, the end of the lifting rope or chain is then detached and the loaded
vessel is allowed to descend till the pulley frame for the next vessel comes to
the position where the next vessel is to be raised, and so on till all the vessels
have been loaded and raised, and then they are all to be allowed to descend
by their gravity to and beyond the tilting place, and when all have been tilted
they are then drawn back by the lifting rope or chain by causing the cylinder
or drum to be properly rotated for that purpose, when the vessels will in
succession be detached and lowered to the place where they are to be loaded,
and then again they will be lifted and run down the inclined rope or way as
above described. It is not essential that the inclined rope or way should pass
in a straight line from its highest point to its lowest, as provision may be made.
for its being supported in a curved or indirect line, the supports being
arranged to move out of the way of the descending pulley frames, and to come
again into position to keep the rope in the position desired.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Henry Monument
and George Berry in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th May 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, HENRY
MONUMENT, of Myrtle Street, Dalston, and GEORGE BERRY, of Buttesland:
Street, Shoreditch, send greeting."
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Henry Monument and George Berry, Her special licence that
we, the said Henry Monument and George Berry, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Henry Monument and
George Berry, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter.

page_text: during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR RAISING AND MOVING EARTH AND OTHER MATTERS AND BODIES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Henry Monument and
George Berry, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us
or them, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office on or before the Eighth day
of May, One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Berry, on behalf of myself and
the said Henry Monument, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for raising and
moving earth and other matters and bodies. For these purposes the axis of a
drum or cylinder receives motion by having thereon a ratchet wheel which is
actuated by a driver applied to a lever, consisting of a series of long bars which
come together near the axis of the drum or cylinder, but diverge from each
other, so that their outer ends are at such a distance apart that a man can
conveniently reach the next lever when he has depressed the previous one. It
is preferred to use four levers, one above the other, for this purpose, but the
number may be varied. The outer end of the second lever being about two
feet from the first, and the third two feet from the second, and so on whatever
be the number of levers used; and the levers and driver or drivers are so
arranged that when the uppermost of the levers has been depressed to its
lowest position, the combined series of levers is then lifted so as to commence
again with the first or lowest lever of the series. One end of a rope or chain
is fixed to the cylinder or drum, and it has at its other end a book which passes
over a pulley, and is then brought down and hooked to a bar or stud on the
raising apparatus, which is combined as follows:-The vessel in which the
earth or other substance or body is contained, and which is to be raised with
the vessel, is suspended from a horizontal bar by two descending books, one
fixed to each end of the horizontal bar. The horizontal bar has two uprights
fixed on its upper surface, which are provided at their upper ends with hooks,
and below such hooks there is a small bar to which the hook of the raising
chain or rope is hooked when the vessel with its contents is about to be raised.
The hooks at the upper ends of the two uprights are arranged in such manner

page_text: that when they have been lifted to the proper height, they are guided over.
supports carried by the frame of the pulley over which the lifting chain or
rope is passed, and such supports will then take and uphold the weight of the
vessel and its load, and allow of the hook at the end of the lifting chain or rope
being unhooked. The frame of the pulley has a grooved wheel or pulley
which is carried by a wire rope fixed in an inclined direction, and it is so sup-
ported and arranged that when a vessel or a series of vessels has been raised
by apparatus such as above described, it will descend by its gravity to any
desired place at a greater or less distance from the point to which the vessel or
series of vessels is raised. And in order to cause such vessel or series of
vessels to be tipped so as to empty the load therefrom at a determined point
of the incline, apparatus is arranged as follows:-A lever is used having at its
forward end a pulley or grooved wheel which rests under the inclined rope or
way, and by so doing the other end of the lever which has its axis. on the
frame which carries the pulley over which the lifting rope or chain is passed,
retains a bar which it carries in a proper position for a hook at its lower end
to uphold the end of a lever in such a position as to retain the vessel from:
tipping until the pulley or wheel has run along the under surface of the
rope
or inclined way and come to an incline, which will cause the wheel or pulley,
and the end of the lever which carries it to be depressed, which will release
the connection of the other lever with the vessel and thus allow the vessel
to tip. Supposing only one such vessel and apparatus be used, then the lifting
rope or chain is continued in connection therewith, and the rope or chain. is
allowed to unwind from the drum or cylinder as the vessel descends down the
inclined rope or way; but if several such vessels and apparatus are used, the
pulley frames of all the vessels are combined together, and they are allowed in:
succession to descend to the position where the vessels are loaded, and when.
one has been loaded the end of the lifting rope or chain is attached to such.
vessel, and it is raised by the combined levers and drum or cylinder as above
explained. The end of the lifting rope or chain is then detached, and the
loaded vessel is allowed to descend till the pulley frame for the next vessel
comes to the position where the next vessel is to be raised, and so on till all
the vessels have been loaded and raised, and then they are all to be allowed to.
descend by their gravity to and beyond the tilting place, and when all have
been tilted, they are then drawn back by the lifting rope or chain by causing..
the cylinder or drum to be properly rotated for that purpose, when the vessels
will in succession be detached and lowered to the place where they are to be
loaded, and then again they will be lifted and run down the inclined rope or
way as above described. It is not essential that the inclined rope or way..

page_text: should pass in a straight line from its highest point to its lowest, as provision
may be made for its being supported in a curved or indirect line; the supports
being arranged to move out of the way of the descending pulley frames, and to
come again into position to keep the rope in the position desired.
Having thus stated the nature of our said Invention, we will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Figure 2 a plan, of a drum having
apparatus for driving the same according to our Invention; Figure 3, part
of the lever driving apparatus. a, a, is the framing; b, the winding drum,
which are not new. This drum 6 is at one end arranged to be driven by a
crank handle, with wheel and pinion to produce a quick motion, and at the
other end the axle of the drum is arranged to be worked by a combined lever
apparatus, arranged according to our Invention. a*, a*, is a framed lever,
which at its inner end moves freely on the axle c of the drum. On the axle c
are fixed two ratchet wheels d and e. In the teeth of the ratchet wheel d the
pawl facts to retain the axle when the lever driving apparatus is moved back;
9, is a driver, carried by the framed levers a*, a*, and its end is constantly
pressed towards the teeth of the ratchet wheel e, so that when the combined
levers a*, a*, are moved down, the axle of the drum will be moved round, and
when the lever apparatus is again lifted, the driver will pass over the inclined
surfaces of the teeth. The handles a', a³, a³, a', of the combined lever
apparatus are set at a suitable distance apart, in order that the man or men
working the apparatus, having depressed one handle of the combined levers,
the next above it may come into position, so as readily to be taken hold of
and be pressed, and so on till the framed levers are depressed to the greatest
extent when the framed levers are to be again raised.
Figure 4 is a side view of a vessel suitable for raising earth or other matters,
having apparatus applied thereto for raising the same combined according to
our Invention. The vessel has two necks or axes h, h which are received
into two hooks i, i, descending from a horizontal bar j, to which one end of
the lifting rope or chain k is attached. The rope or chain passes over a
pulley to the raising drum a. The pulley
which at their upper ends carry a grooved pulley or wheel, which runs on a
wire rope, or it may be inclined bar or rail n, along which the apparatus runs
when released or permitted so to do. At the lower ends the plates are formed
into hooks m', m', and there are two uprights p, p, fixed on the bar j, with
projections q, q, which in ascending pass the points m², m³, of the hooks, and
works between two plates m, m,

page_text: when the lifting chain or rope is slackened, the projections q, q, enter into
the hooks m', and are upheld thereby, as is shown in Figure 4. The vessel
which contains the earth or other matters to be raised is tipped over by means
of hooked bars r, which are carried by a framed lever s, which at one end has
a grooved pulley or wheel t, which pulley or wheel, on arriving at a part of
the rope where there is an incline or projection below it, in passing under
such projection raises up the two hooked bars r, and tilts the vessel so as to
empty it.
Figure 5 shows another side view of the vessel and apparatus for raising it,
the vessel being only partly raised. Several of these vessels and apparatus
may be combined together, and be brought into position one after the other by
coupling the apparatus together by bars u; and these coupling bars are
lowered by means of a rope to the position where the vessels are to be emptied,
and they are again brought back to the filling position by the same rope. The
inclined rope, along which the several apparatus carrying the vessels run, need
not be in a straight line, as it may be supported in a curved or indirect line.
provided the supports at intervals be arranged for a time to move out of the
way when the apparatus is passing, and then return into position again to give
support to the rope.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, we would have it understood that we make no claim to
any of the mechanical parts separately; but what we claim is,―
First, the arrangement or combination of apparatus for giving motion to a
roller or drum, as herein described.
And, secondly, we claim the combined apparatus herein described for raising
and moving earth and other matters, as herein explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Berry, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty.