IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR RAISING OR LIFTING AND LOWERING HEAVY BODIES."
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Moxon, of Parliament Street, in the City
of Westminster, Contractor, and Joseph Jeffrey Bennett, of Homer
Terrace, Victoria Park, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, for
the Invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR RAISING OR LIFTING AND
LOWERING HEAVY BODIES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Moxon and Joseph
Jeffrey Bennett at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 23rd April 1859.
We, WILLIAM Moxox, of Parliament Street, in the City of Westminster,
Contractor, and JOSEPH JEFFREY BENNETT, of Homer Terrace, Victoria Park, in
the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR RAISING OR LIFTING AND LOWERING
HEAVY BODIES," to be as follows:-
The object of our Invention of improved apparatus for raising or lifting
and lowering heavy bodies is to economize labor, by so arranging the
apparatus that two or more weights may be simultaneously lifted by the same
motive agent. The Invention is more particularly applicable for raising or
lifting earthy matters from excavations; but with certain modifications a similar
arrangement of apparatus may be employed for lifting materials from the
surface of the ground and raising them to any required height, as will be
required in constructing buildings.

page_text: In carrying out our Invention and applying it for lifting earthy matters from
excavations made below the level of the surrounding ground, we construct
above the excavation, or part to be excavated, a strong framing of any conve
nient length according to the extent of the work to be done, and from a long
horizontal beam at the upper part of this framing, and extending from end to
end thereof, are suspended at equal and convenient distances apart, any desired
number of pullies according to the number of weights it is intended to operate
upon simultaneously. Over these pullies are passed ropes, chains, or cords, at one
end of each of which are short chains provided with hooks or other analogous
contrivances, whereby is suspended a barrow or other suitable receptacle for
containing the earth or other substance that is intended to be removed.
The opposite ends of the ropes, chains, or cords are brought from the pullies
above and passed under other pullies fixed near the surface of the ground, and
all the lifting chains are secured to a common horizontal wire or other draught
rope or chain.
Supposing the barrows or receptacles to have been filled by
the workmen or excavators below, and all of them properly secured to the
lifting chains or ropes, the long horizontal wire draught rope or chain to
which the lifting chains are attached is drawn forward either by horse or
other power, and all the barrows will be simultaneously lifted up and raised to
the level of the ground, and may then be wheeled or conveyed away, when
empty barrows may be attached to the ropes or chains and lowered down to
the workmen. A counterpoise weight is connected to some convenient part of
the horizontal draught chain or wire rope, for the purpose of counterbalancing
the weight of the barrows during their descent into the excavation, and another
weight is attached to the end of the horizontal draught chain or wire rope, in
order to keep it straight while returning to its original position. It will be
evident that a similar mode of simultaneously raising or lifting may be em-
ployed for drawing barrows or carriages up inclined planes instead of lifting
them vertically as above mentioned.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Moxon and Joseph Jeffrey Bennett in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 22nd October 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
Moxon, of Parliament Street, in the City of Westminster, Contractor, and
JOSEPH JEFFREY BENNETT, of Homer Terrace, Victoria Park, in the County of
Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
William Moxon and Joseph Jeffrey Bennett, Her special license that we, the said
William Moxon and Joseph Jeffrey Bennett, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said William Moxon and Joseph Jeffrey Ben-
nett, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter 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 "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
RAISING OR LIFTING AND LOWERING HEAVY BODIES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said William Moxon and
Bennett, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under
the hand and seal of one of us, 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 within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
Joseph Jeffrey
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Jeffrey Bennett, on behalf of
myself and of the said William Moxon, do hereby declare the nature of our
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference
being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures
marked thereon (that is to say):-
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The object of our Invention of "Improved Apparatus for Raising or Lifting
and Lowering Heavy Bodies" is to economize labour by so arranging the
apparatus employed for effecting the above operations that two or more weights
may be simultaneously lifted by the same motive agent. The Invention is
more particularly applicable for raising or lifting earthy matters from excava-
tions, but with certain modifications a similar arrangement of apparatus may
be employed for lifting materials from the surface of the ground and
raising them to any required height as will be required in constructing
buildings.
In the accompanying Drawing we have shewn various views of one mode of
carrying out our Invention, and applying it for lifting earthy matters from
excavations made below the level of the surrounding ground.

page_text: Fig. is a side elevation of the whore apparatus 15.
vertical section of the same; and Fig. 3 is a plan view.
In applying our Invention to the above-mentioned purpose, we construct
above the excavation or part to be excavated, as shewn at A, a light and strong
framing a, a, a, of any convenient length, according to the extent of the work to
be done, and from a long horizontal beam b, mounted at the upper part of this
framing, and extending from end to end thereof, as shewn in Figures 1 and 3,
are suspended at equal and convenient distances apart any desired number
of pullies c, c, c, according to the number of weights it is intended to operate
upon simultaneously. Over these pullies are passed ropes, chains, or cords d, d,
at one end of each of which are short chains e, e, provided with hooks or other
analogous contrivances, whereby is suspended a barrow or other suitable
receptacle f, for containing the earth or other substance that is intended to be
removed. The opposite ends of the ropes, chains, or cords d are brought from
the pullies above and passed under other pullies g, g, which are attached to a
fixed chain i placed near the surface of the ground. All the lifting chains d, d,
are secured to a common horizontal wire or other draught rope or chain h, h,
or they may, if preferred, be carried separately to a drum. Supposing the
barrows or receptacles f. f, to have been filled by the workmen or excavators
below, and all of them properly attached to the lifting chains or ropes d, d,
the long horizontal wire draught rope or chain h, h, to which the lifting
chains d, d, are attached, is drawn forward either by horse or other power.
In the Drawing this object is shewn as being effected by means of a
stationary steam engine B. By drawing forward the rope or chain h, h, which
passes round the horizontal pulley ho, fixed to the ground, the rope will be
coiled on the drum 1 of the winding apparatus, and all the barrows f. f, will be
simultaneously lifted up and raised to the level of the ground, or to a stage
placed thereon, and may then be wheeled or conveyed away, when empty
barrows may be attached to the ropes or chains d, d, and lowered down to the
workmen. A counterpoise weight p is connected to some convenient part of
the horizontal draught chain or wire rope for the purpose of counterbalancing
the weight of the barrows during their descent into the excavation. This
counterbalance weight is suspended from one end of a chain m, which passes
over a pulley n attached to the framing. The opposite end of this chain
passes down under another pulley o at or near the surface of the ground,
and is attached to the end of the horizontal draught chain or wire rope h, and
thereby keeps the chain straight while returning to its original position. It
will be evident that a similar mode of simultaneously raising or lifting may be

page_text: employed for drawing barrows or carriages up inclined planes instead of lifting
them vertically, as above mentioned.
Having now described our Invention of "Improved Apparatus for
Raising or Lifting and Lowering Heavy Bodies," and having explained the
manner of carrying the same into effect, we claim as the Invention secured
to us by Letters Patent as aforesaid, the arrangement of apparatus herein
shewn and described, or any mere modification thereof, for simultaneously
raising or lowering heavy bodies.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Jeffrey Bennett, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Twenty-second day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
JOSEPH JEFFREY BENNETT. (L.S.)