IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF MECHANISM FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING FUEL OR OTHER MATERIALS OR SUB- STANCES IN CUBICAL OR OTHER BLOCKS FROM OR TO ANY SHIP, BOAT, TRUCK; OR OTHER POSITION OR PLACE
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Service, of Freehold Land, near Llandaff, in the
County of Glamorgan, for the Invention of "IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF
MECHANISM FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING FUEL OR OTHER MATERIALS OR SUB-
STANCES IN CUBICAL OR OTHER BLOCKS FROM OR TO ANY SHIP, BOAT, TRUCK;
OR OTHER POSITION OR PLACE."
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francis Service at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patent's on the 6th September 1879.
FRANCIS SERVICE, of Freehold Land, near Llandaff, in the County of Glamorgan,
"IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF MECHANISM FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING FUEL.OR
OTHER MATERIALS OR SUBSTANCES; IN CUBICAL OR OTHER BLOCKS FROM OR TO ANY
SHIP, BOAT, TRUCK, OR OTHER POSITION OR PLACE."
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The object of this Invention is to load patent or other fuel, bricks, or other.
materials from or out of a boat; barge; lighter, or other vessel on water, or from a
quay or wharf, railway; or any other place or position; whether on water or on
land or to unload the same from any ship; boat, truck; or other position or, place..
The motive power I employ may be steam, hand; air, water, gas, electricity, or any
other convenient and suitable power.
The machine consists of an elevator carried by a movable collar, which moves
freely on an upright hollow column, which column is fastened to the bottom of the
boat, craft, or other position on land or water where it may be required for use by
a foot or support.
The elevator is furnished with an endless flat link chain; which carries spurs.or
buckets at proper intervals to take the material to be shipped or discharged. This
chain is actuated by a top drum, which may be made of any suitable size or
pattern, and is itself driven by the gearing, which in its turn is driven by ther
motive power employed.
The elevator is carried by an arm fixed in the movable collar, and can be fixed
at any required angle with the column as it rotates on the arm as an axis...
The movable collar is capable of being raised or lowered to any required height
on the column at the will of the person in charge by means of a gearing and
chain.
When not in use the collar is lowered with the elevator to the foot..
When in use the machine is fed by the material to be loaded or discharged being
placed by manual power in a short feed shoot, and which is carried by the elevator
to the top drum, and there delivered into the delivery shoot placed there to
receive it.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Francis Service in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th March
1880.
FRANCIS SERVICE, of Freehold Land, Llandaff, in the County of Glamorgan.
"IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF MECHANISM FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING FUEL OR
OTHER MATERIALS OR SUBSTANCES IN CUBICAL OR OTHER BLOCKS FROM OR TO ANY
SHIP, BOAT, TRUCK, OR OTHER POSITION OR PLACE."
The object of this Invention is to load 'patent or other fuel, bricks, or other
inaterials from or out of a boat, barge, lighter, or other vessel on water, or from
a quay, or wharf, railway, or any other place or position, whether on water or on
land, or to unload the same from any ship, boat, truck, or other position or place.
The motive power I employ may be steam, hand; air, water, gas, electricity, or
any other convenient and suitable power.
The Invention will be clearly understood on reference to the annexed Drawings,
which show on Sheet 1, a side elevation; and on Sheet 2, an end view of a floating
apparatus, loading from a barge to a vessel.
The mechanism consists of an elevator A carried by a moveable collar D, which
is free to be moved on an upright hollow column B, which column B is fastened to
the bottom of the boat or craft E by a foot or support C, or it may be in any other
position on land or water where it may be required for use.
The elevator A is furnished with an endless fat link chain I, which carries
spurs L (or it may be buckets) at proper intervals to take the material to be
shipped or discharged..
The chain is actuated by a top drum G, which may be made of any suitable size or
pattern, and is itself driven by the gearing J, seen in Sheet 2, which in its turn is
driven by the motive power employed, in this case a steam-engine M driven by
steam from the boiler N.
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The elevator A is carried by an arm O fixed in the movable collar D, and can
be held at any required angle with the column B, as it rotates on the arm as an.
axis.
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The movable collar D is capable of being raised or lowered to any required.
height on the column B at the will of the person in charge by means of the ratchet
and pawl gearing K and chains P, the latter being connected to a barrel on the
shaft Qand passing under the rollers R, R, and up through the hollow column B
then over the rollers S, where the ends of said chains are attached to the sliding
collar D by means of the side pieces T.
When not in use. the collar D is lowered with the elevator to the foot C..
The machine in the present illustration is fed by the material U to be loaded or
discharged from the lighter V being placed by manual power in the feed, shoot F,
it is then carried by the elevator A over the top drum G, and there delivered into
the delivery shoot H placed to receive it, down which it slides, and ultimately finds.
its way by means of the guide shoots W and X into the hold of the ship Y where
it can be stowed.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Francis Service, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fourth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and
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