DOWD SLE HOLDER
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Richmond and Henry Chandler, both of
Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Agricultural Implement Makers,
William Barry Ritchie, of Belfast, in the County of Antrim, in Ireland,
T
TarnDOWD SLE HOLDER "
Sealed the 17th January 1862, and dated the 5th August 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francis Richmond, Henry
Chandler, and William Barry Ritchie at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 5th August 1861.
We, FRANCIS RICHMOND and HENRY CHANDLER, both of Salford, in the
County of Lancaster, Agricultural Implement Makers, and WILLIAM BARRY
RITCHIE, of Belfast, in the County of Antrim, in Ireland, Merchant, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED SACK
HOLDER," to be as follows:-
The object of our Invention is to retain the orifice of sacks distended while
being filled. Our improved sack holder consists of a pillar or other fixing, to
which is connected, by a set screw or other adjustable means, a bracket, in
which are fixed the studs for two levers or arms furnished at their lower
extremities with holders, to which the sack is suspended. The levers are
coupled by toothed segments, or other equivalent means, so that both are
expanded or contracted simultaneously. One of the levers is provided with
a ratchet segment, into which a pall gears to hold the levers. By means of
this improved, holder sacks of any size may be held open.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Francis Richmond, Henry Chandler, and William Barry
Ritchie in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st February 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, FRANCIS
RICHMOND and HENRY CHANDLER, both of Salford, in the County of Lancaster,
Agricultural Implement Makers, and WILLIAM BARRY RITCHIE, of Belfast,
in the County of Antrim, in Ireland, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Francis Richmond, Henry Chandler, and William Barry Ritchie, Her
special licence that we, the said Francis Richmond, Henry Chandler, and
William Barry Ritchie, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Francis Richmond, Henry Chandler, and William
Barry Ritchie, 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 "AN
IMPROVED SACK HOLDER," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Francis Richmond, Henry Chandler, and William Barry Ritchie, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their,
or one of our or their hands and seals, 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 inmediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Francis Richmond, Henry Chandler,
and William Barry Ritchie, do hereby declare the nature of our said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to
say):
The object of our Invention is to retain the orifice of sacks distended while
they are being filled. Our improved sack holder consists of a pillar or other
fixing, to which is connected by a set screw or other adjustable means a
bracket, in which are fixed the studs for two levers or arms furnished at their
lower extremities with holders to which the sack is suspended. The levers

page_text: are coupled by toothed segments, or other equivalent means, so that both are
expanded or contracted simultaneously. One of the levers is provided with
a ratchet segment, into which a pall gears to hold the levers apart. By means
of this improved holder sacks of any size may be held open.
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into operation, we will proceed to describe the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings, reference being had to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of our improved sack holder; Figure 2 is a
side elevation, and Figure 3 a plan of the same. a is the pillar or other
fixture, to which is connected the adjustable bracket b, which can be set to
any height from the floor according to the length of the sack to be filled. To
the bracket bare fixed two studs for the levers or arms c, c, the bosses of
which are furnished with toothed segments gearing into each other. To one of
the levers c is cast or forged a ratchet segment d, into which takes the palle,
which is hinged to a stud fixed in the bracket b. The extremities of the
levers or arms c, c, are provided with spiked segments, on to which the mouth
of the sack to be filled is suspended; the segments hold the orifice open, as
shewn in Figure 3. When the sack is full, or when it is required to remove.
it from the holder, the palle is taken out of gear with the ratchet segment d
to liberate the selvage of the sack. This pall and ratchet segment also render
the holder suitable for sacks of various sizes.
Having thus described the nature and particulars of our Invention, we
declare that we claim the general arrangement and combination of parts for
holding open the orifice of sacks, as shewn and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Chandler, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
HENRY CHANDLER. (L.S.)