Improvements in Apparatus for and connected with the Loading and Discharging of Vessels, and the Transfer of Railway Wagons, Coal, and other Substances from one Place or Level to another.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 6th May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 6th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 6th June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for and connected with the Loading
and Discharging of Vessels, and the Transfer of Railway
Wagons, Coal, and other Substances from one Place or Level to
another.
I GEORGE TAYLOR of Penarth Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:
:-
My invention relates to improved apparatus and machinery for loading and
discharging vessels and for transferring coal and other substances from one place
or level to another, and comprises special forms of construction and arrangement
of apparatus for use in combination with coal tips or staiths, one object being to
provide improved loading and discharging apparatus adjustable to the position of
vessels' hatchways.
The invention and apparatus are capable of various modifications according to
circumstances.
For lowering coal into the vessel's hold I prefer a steel plate box with three
fixed sides rivetted together in rectangular form and one movable side composed of
one or more hinged sections or plates secured by pivots to the fixed sides and
hinged to a terminal plate. The plates when raised in the box constitute a platform
for receiving coal and lowering it into the box to avoid fall and breakage. The
invention includes special arrangements of gearing and appliances for operating the
box and its anti-breakage plates to suit them for being filled and used in connection
with a shipping platform or a staith shoot or wagon. I support the box by one or
a pair of steel ropes connected with an adjustable swivelling arrangement which
may be affixed to the shoot for turning the box and guiding it in proper position
for loading and discharging. The anti-breakage plates are supported and operated
by one or a pair of steel ropes attached to the terminal plate; and to keep the
plates and box in proper relative positions whilst being hoisted lowered loaded and
discharged I take the box and plate ropes over guide sheaves on a jib, or on the
mainframe or a tip, to a hydraulic ram, or to winding pulleys keyed on a shaft
furnished with a brake wheel and rotated by a winding pulley and hydraulic power.
The required movements of the anti-breakage plates for receiving lowering holding
and discharging the coal are attained by a special hydraulic ram over the sheaves
of which the rope from the plates is taken. The ropes from the box and plates
may, however, be merged together, and one rope only be taken to the ram or
winding gear. The stroke of the hoisting ram is regulated to the rise and fall
necessary for the box, and the stroke of the plate ram to the length of rope required
for the motion of the plates from their highest point in the box to the positions
they require to take for holding the box full and for discharging, which latter
operation may be effected by a stop arrangement; or a separate ram may be used
for discharging. Counterbalance weights and a brake may, however, be used
instead of, or in conjunction with hydraulic power by attaching the box and plate
ropes to a counterweight, or the ropes may have separate counterweights passing
through or adjustably linked with each other to suit the positions necessary for
operating the box and plates.
The invention next relates to improved gearing and appliances for working an
anti-breakage slide for avoiding the concussion and breakage coal sustains by
falling from the wagon and rolling down the shoot. The slide extends from side
o side of the shoot and controls the inflow and passage of the coal. The improved

page_text: gearing I prefer comprises steel ropes attached to the slide itself or to outside
levers fixed to the upper part of the slide and taken towards the back part of the
shoot to winding pulleys or sheaves or to a hydraulic ram, or to a counterbalance
arrangement on the mainframe or staith, and similar to that alluded to for
operating the anti-breakage box and its plates. The winding pulleys are keyed on
a shaft and operated by hydraulic power and a rope which may pass around
sheaves placed overhead and below and be secured to the shoot, forming a loop
system for allowing the slide to be worked up and down the inclined shoot at
different levels. The slide and winding and hydraulic ropes may however be
adjustable by stops suiting them to the level required for the shoot. To enable
the slide to liberate the coal freely I apply to it or to its rope gear a counter-
balance to overcome the friction of the ram and pulleys, or I provide the slide with
an additional pair of wheels engaging with a path on each side of the shoot the
wheels and paths being so arranged in position and form as to take part of the
weight of the slide and enable the latter to give increased clearance and freedom
of exit for the coal to pass out of the shoot." A similar arrangement of counter-
balance may also be applied to the rope that operates the box plates. To check
the flow of coal from the shoot I use at the point a stop worked by a shaft and
lever.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for and connected with the Loading
and Discharging of Vessels, and the Transfer of Railway
Wagons, Coal, and other Substances from one Place or Level to
another.
I GEORGE TAYLOR of Penarth Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to improved apparatus and machinery for loading and
discharging vessels and for transferring coal and other substances from one place
or level to another, and comprises special forms of construction and arrangement
of apparatus for use in combination with coal tips or staiths one object being to
provide improved loading and discharging apparatus adjustable to the position of
vessels' hatchways.
The invention and apparatus are capable of various modifications according to
circumstances.
.
For lowering coal into the vessel's hold I prefer a steel plate antibreakage
box such as, or similar to, that described and illustrated by the Specification
and drawings of my Patent No. 3632 of 1890 with three fixed sides rivetted
together in rectangular form and one movable side composed of one or more
hinged sections or antibreakage plates secured by pivots to the fixed sides and
hinged to a terminal plate. The plates when raised. in the box constitute a
platform for receiving coal and lowering it into the box to avoid fall and
breakage. The invention includes special arrangements of gearing and appliances
for operating the box and its antibreakage plates to suit them for being filled
and used in connection with a tip staith or shoot. I support the box by one or
a pair of steel ropes arranged to suit for turning the box and guiding it into
proper position for loading and discharging. The antibreakage plates are
supported and operated by one or a pair of steel ropes attached to the terminal
plate, and to keep the box and plates in proper relative position whilst being
hoisted lowered loaded and discharged I take the box and plate ropes over
guide sheaves on a jib or a tip, to a hydraulic ram, or to winding pulleys keyed
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page_text: on a shaft furnished with a brake wheel and rotated by a winding pulley and
hydraulic or other power. The required movements of the antibreakage plates
for receiving lowering holding and discharging the coal are attained by a special
ram over the sheaves of which the rope from the plates is taken. The ropes
from the box and plates may however be merged together and one rope only
be taken to the ram or winding gear. The stroke of the hoisting ram is
regulated to the rise and fall desired for the box and the stroke of the plate
ram to the length of rope required for the motion of the plates from their
bighest point in the box to the positions they require to take for holding the
box full and for discharging, which latter operation may be effected by a stop
arrangement, or a separate ram may be used for discharging. Counterbalance.
weights may be used in conjunction with hydraulic power.
The invention next relates to improved gearing and appliances for working an
anti-breakage slide for avoiding the concussion and breakage coal sustains by
falling from the wagon and rolling down the shoot.
The slide extends from side to side of the shoot and controls the inflow and
passage of the coal. The improved gearing I prefer comprises steel ropes
attached to outside levers fixed to the upper part of the slide and taken
towards the back part of the shoot to winding pulleys or sheaves or to a
hydraulic ram on the tip or staith. The winding pulleys are keyed on a shaft
and operated by bydraulic or other power and a rope which may pass around.
sheaves placed overhead and below and be secured to the shoot, forming a loop
system for allowing the slide to be worked up and down the inclined shoot at
different levels. To enable the slide to. liberate the coal freely I provide the
slide with an additional pair of wheels engaging with a path on each side of
the shoot the wheels and paths being so arranged in position and form as to
take part of the weight of the slide and enable the latter to give increased
freedom of exit for the coal to pass out of the shoot. To check the flow of
coal from the shoot I use at the point a stop worked by a shaft and lever.
In order that the invention may be clearly understood I illustrate it in the
accompanying sheet of drawings, and I give the following particulars.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 a front elevation and Fig. 3 a plan of a coal:
tip or staith furnished with the apparatus and appliances comprised in this
invention.
The tip or staith is of ordinary or any suitable form and construction and
has a shoot for passing coal from the railway wagon to the vessels hatchway,
and an antibreakage box for lowering it into the hold.
The shoot is supported raised and lowered in the usual or any suitable manner.
It has modifications adapting it for the use and working of an anti-breakage
slide A, and the anti-breakage box. The portions B of the sides of the shoot
are parallel to each other, and the portions B* are enlarged outwards to give
increased width to the shoot for receiving the end of the wagon in discharging.
The sides B have an angle iron path B₁ at the top for the flanged wheels C of
the slide to travel upon.
The wheels C rotate on a shaft C₁ to which angle
iron ribs Care firmly secured and form a framework to which the iron plate C*
is rivetted for checking and controlling the coal on its coming out of the wagon
and passing over the shoot. At the ends of the shaft C' are levers or arms C
keyed thereto. To the lower end of the arms a steel rope D is attached which
passes at each side of the shoot to a winding drum E and is secured thereto.
The winding drums E are keyed on the shaft E¹ which is placed under the
shoot and rotates in hangers rivetted to the shoot sides.
To reduce friction the slide has at its lower corners rollers C* rotating on
spindles fixed to the angle iron frame, and arranged to travel on the angle iron:
that connects the sides and floor of the shoot together. At or near the central
part of the slide I affix at each side a wheel C that rotates on a spindle
secured to the angle iron frame of the slide and is arranged to travel on the
angle iron path F rivetted to the interior of the shoot at each side.

page_text: The paths F must be placed so that the ends nearest the tip shall be low
enough for the wheels C to come upon them as the slide advances towards the
point of the shoot, and the other ends must be placed so that the paths Fou
which the wheels C travel shall be flatter than the paths B' on the top of the
shoot sides upon which the wheels C travel, the object being to throw the whole
or part of the weight of the slide on the wheels C' in order to facilitate the balancing
of the slide and give freedom of exit for the coal to pass out of the shoot.
The sides of the shoot adjacent to the paths F are made wider than the other
parts in order to give clearance for the bottom part of the slide to pass outwards.
To the shaft E a driving drum E' is keyed and has a steel rope D' attached to it
so that when the antibreakage slide is at the extreme end of its range at the point
of the shoot there is a sufficient length of the rope D' wound on the drum E' to
draw the slide up to its highest position at the top end of the shoot by winding the
ropes D on the drums E. The rope D passes upwards to and over the sheave D'
from which it proceeds to the sheave D' mounted on the lower part of the tip and
is taken thence over the sheaves of the hydraulic ram G and then goes over a
guide sheave G¹ upwards to the shoot to which it is attached and forms a loop
arrangement enabling the slide to be worked up and down the shoot at different
levels. The shoot has a stop H secured to a shaft H' supported by the shoot sides.
The stop consists of an angle iron framing with a plate H³ rivetted thereto, flush
with the shoot floor, which is cut away to fit the stop. By lifting the lever H by
means of the chain H' the stop is raised up in the shoot and the coal comes against
and is checked by the curved back plate H*.
The
The antibreakage box is similar in construction, and arrangement to the box
described and illustrated in the Specification and drawings of my Patent No. 3632
of.1890. I is the front of the box attached to the sides I'. The box is strengthened
by the bands I and may be supported by side hangers such as those shewn in the
said Specification and drawings or by a cross girder such as that marked 1' in
the drawings relating to this Specification. The box has antibreakage plates K
for lowering the coal into the box and is arranged to be worked with the shoot
the stop H having the plate H³ suited to come partly within the box.
antibreakage box is supported by two steel ropes L attached to the cross girder I'
and carried upwards to sheaves L' on a jib or derrick from which they are taken
to and attached to winding drums M keyed on a shaft N mounted on the top of
the tip or staith. The antibreakage plates K are supported and operated by a
steel rope L' which is taken upwards and over a sheave L' on the jib or derrick
and thence to a guide sheave L rotating on the shaft N, and then goes under a
guide sheave L from whence it is taken around the sheave L' of the hydraulic
ram and afterwards led to the winding drum M¹ and secured thereto. The box
ropes L pass on to the upper part of the winding drums M and the plate rope L'
passes on to the lower part of the winding drum M¹ so that they shall be operated
coincidently by rotation of the shaft N. The shaft N has a driving drum P to
which a steel rope P¹ is attached and carried downwards to a guide sheave P
from which it is taken around the sheaves P3 of the hydraulic ram Q and its end
made fast. When the antibreakage box is at its lowest point and the ropes L
and L* are correspondingly unwound from their drums the driving rope P is to
the same extent wound upon its drum P so that by forcing out the ram which is
in its cylinder the shaft N and its drums are rotated and the box and plate ropes
are wound up. When the antibreakage plates of the box are in the position shewn
in the drawings the ram O is out of its cylinder to the extent of its stroke and holds
the plates.
For filling the box the ram is allowed to go back into the cylinder and the plates
move downwards, the coal at the same time flowing on to the plates and being
supported by them in its descent into the box. The shaft N may have a counter-
weight R to assist the ram Q. In that case the shaft N has a winding drum R
keyed to it with a rope R' by which the counterweight is suspended. A brake
may be used on the shaft N for controlling its motion. The ram Q and the

page_text: counterweight R may be placed at the back of the tip to assist its stability. In
that case the ropes P1 and R' would be taken over guide sheaves at the back part
of the top of the tip. The stroke of the ram O must be suited to the length of
rope required to let the antibreakage plates down from their highest position in the
box to that required for discharging. To hold the box full of coal the stroke of
the ram Qmay be stopped at the necessary point by interrupting the exhaustion.
of the water from the cylinder or by any suitably adjustable stop to prevent the
ram from going further into the cylinder until it is desired to discharge the coal.
from the box which is effected by letting the ram go fully back.
The jib or derrick may be of any ordinary construction suitable for supporting
the sheaves L' and L and it is therefore not shewn in Fig. 2 and 3.
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 :-
1. The arrangement and combination, substantially as described herein and
illustrated by the accompanying drawings, of an antibreakage slide substantially
such as that described herein and illustrated by the accompanying drawings with a
shoot substantially such as that described herein and illustrated by the accom-
panying drawings.
2. The arrangement and combination with the antibreakage slide and shoot, of
the wheels C and the paths F, substantially as described herein and illustrated by
the accompanying drawings.
3. The arrangement and combination of the antibreakage slide with the rope
hydraulic and winding gear and appliances for operating the slide, substantially as
herein described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
4. The arrangement and combination, substantially as described herein and
illustrated by the accompanying drawings, of an antibreakage box substantially
such as that described and illustrated by the Specification and drawings of my
Patent No. 3632 of 1890 and herein, with an antibreakage shoot substantially such
as that described herein and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
5. The arrangement and combination of an antibreakage box such as that
referred to in the last preceeding claim, with the rope hydraulic and winding gear
and appliances for operating the antibreakage box and its antibreakage plates,..
substantially as described herein and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 5th day of March 1894.