A WEIGHING MACHINE UPON A NEW CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1834

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
BATHER, of the Haymarket, in the Parish of Saint James, Westminster,
Scale Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth
did, by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-second
day of May, in the fourth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the
said George Bather, my exccutors, administrators, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said George
Bather, my executors, administrators, and assigns, during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend
my Invention of "A WEIGHING MACHINE UPON A NEW CONSTRUCTION," within
England, Wales, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me,
the said George Bather, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
in our discretion seem meet; in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso that if I, the said George Bather, should not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same
is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and
advantages thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void,
as in and by the said recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Bather, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: in what manner the same is to be performed, are particularly described and
ascertained in manner following (that is to say):-
My Invention of a Weighing Machine upon a New Construction consists of
an apparatus to be attached to a sack, barrow, or warehouse truck, to be em-
ployed in warehouses or other places for removing sacks of corn, coal, potatoes,
casks of butter, cheeses, and various other goods, whereby the goods so
removed may be weighed in the said truck or barrow, and which apparatus
will not prevent such trucks or barrows from being employed for the pur-
poses of removing goods in the ordinary way, as the same may readily be
attached thereto or removed therefrom when not wanted.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying Drawing exhibits a front elevation of a truck or
barrow for removing sacks of coals, corn, potatoes, and other articles in a ware-
house from one situation to another, to which is attached the apparatus above
mentioned in the compact form which it would assume when out of operation.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is another side elevation, shew-
ing the parts of the weighing machine extended and in operation. Fig. 4
is a front view of the same. Fig. 5 is a horizontal view, and Fig. 6 is a
vertical section of the same, the parts for weighing being extended, as in the
two preceding Figures. Similar letters of reference are used to denote corre-
sponding parts in all the Fgures.
a, a, are the sides and handles of the weighing machine, truck, or barrow,
and are formed of two sides or upright supports, and may be formed of more
than two upright supports, to be similar when extended to the frame or
standard of a common weighing machine, and if too wide from the goods
scale to the weight scale to serve as a truck, the sides or frame may have
hinges or moveable joints to act in unison with the weighing apparatus, and
fold together when not wanted for use, similar to Fig. 10. b, b, is the sack
iron or shoe, which is pushed under the sack or other goods about to bo
removed for the purpose of supporting them. c, c, are the wheels of the
truck. d, d, are two hooks which may be fixed to the sides of the truck or
attached to the cross stretcher e. Upon these hooks the pivots or pins with
V-edges ff, extending from the middle of each side of the scale beam g, g,
bear. The scale upon which the sack or other article intended to be weighed
must be placed is shewn at h, formed so as to lay either within, below, or
level with the sack iron or shoc b, and not to project above its upper surface,
as seen in Figures 1 and 2. To be used as a truck the scale h must be
locked down, as in Figure 1, to prevent vibration, until the goods are placed
on the truck. This scale is connected by hinge joints to the perpendicular
rods or frame i, i, which rods are suspended by rings or eyes at top, bearing
upon pivots or pins with V-edges k, k, at the front ends of the scale beami.

page_text: At the back of the truck is the balance or weight scale 1, connected by hinge
joints to the perpendicular rods or frame m, m, suspended from the scale
beam behind by rings bearing on the V-edges of pivots or pins at n, n.
When the weighing machine attached to the truck is not required to be
put into operation, the balance scale may be turned up out of the way,
as shewn at Figures 1 and 2, and secured in that position by a staple lock
or catch (see Fig. 6), which is also shewn by dots in Figure 10, the staple
passing through a hole z in the scale 7. The sack or other goods to be
weighed are placed on the front sack iron or shoc b, the scale l is to be
turned down and the necessary weights placed upon it, as shewn at Figure 3.
By the descent of the balance scale with its weights, the weighing scale
with its load will be made to rise, the two scales h and l vibrating upon the
V-edge pivots or pin ff, of the beam g, g, in the hooks d. At the lower
part of the truck there is a connecting link or stretcher, or hook iron o
(seen best in Figures 1, 5, and 6), and shewn detached at Figure 7; this is
intended to keep the rods or frame i and m and scales hand in their
proper situations when in operation. The hooked ends of the connecting
piece or stretcher or hook iron act in holes in the transverse bars p, p, see
Figure 5, the holes having V-edges to prevent friction, so that they may not
impede the vibrations of the weighing machine. Fig. 8 is a representation
of the central cross bar y, or brace at bottom of the truck, detached, shewing
the adjusting screws q, q, on its ends, which fit into recesses on the sides of
the truck, as seen in Figure 6. By means of these screws the bar or brace
or screw box can be adjusted to the proper height, and be afterwards secured
to the truck by screw nuts x, 2, on the outside. Fig. 9 is a view of the
weighing parts detached from the truck in the position they would assume
when in use. Fig. 10 is a similar representation when folded together, and
the scales turned up so as to occupy as little room as possible. These weigh-
ing parts may readily be removed from the truck by merely lifting them out
of the hooks d, d. When in the position shewn in Figure 10, the standard or
frame can be used as an ordinary sack barrow, and, if necessary, two rods or
pins, one of which is shewn detached at Figure 11, may be passed through
the holes at w, w, in the sides of the truck, in order to keep the sacks or
goods from falling through the barrow. Should it be thought desirable a steel-
yard may be employed in connection with this weighing machine, either in
conjunction with or instead of the balance scale l and its weights. Fig. 12 is a
detached representation of a steelyard, adapted to be used with the other parts
of this weighing machine. Fig. 13 is a partial sectional Figure, shewing it
applied to the machine. is a graduated steelyard with its weight. s and t
are two notches formed on its end. into which the two V-edged bars u

page_text: and on the scale beam 9 work or act as fulcrums. By this mode of
connection the steelyard, when in operation, becomes part of the weighing
machine.
Hlaving now described my Invention of a Weighing Machine upon a New
Construction, I wish it to be understood that I do not mean or intend to
confine myself to the precise form or dimensions of the several parts, as it is
evident they may be slightly varied to suit different descriptions of sack trucks
or barrows of different sizes, according to the weight or bulk of goods required
to be weighed. Nor do I intend to confine myself to the exact method
described of suspending the weighing parts by the rings and V-edges, as they
may be varied; for instance, the rings or bearings may be formed on the scale
beam, and the V-edges on the frames or vertical scale rods i and m, instead of
the arrangement shewn in the Drawings, or the scales may be placed above
the scale beam instead of below.
And lastly, I claim as my Invention the construction of a weighing machine,
the standard carriage or frame of the same being so constructed as to serve
the purposes of a sack truck or carriage for removing goods, especially such
As coals, corn, flour, potatoes, butter, cheese, or other goods contained in
sacks, bags, tubs, &c., and the same being applicable to sack trucks, carriages,
and other weighing machines, by altering the old or constructing new sack
trucks, carriages, or weighing machines.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Bather, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.