Apparatus for Loading and Discharging Vessels.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 9th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 8th Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Loading and Discharging Vessels. .
I, JOSEPH TEMPERLEY of Wray Lodge, Reigate in the County of Surrey,
Shipowner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to apparatus for loading and discharging vessels, particularly
those which have long hatches, extending a considerable distance fore and aft.
On a frame which can travel fore and aft on longitudinal rails I mount a pair of
shear legs which meet at the top and are secured by suitable stays. From their
apex is suspended a horizontal beam or girder which extends over the hatch and
sufficiently far on either side or on both sides to command the quay or lighter
alongside the vessel, and which is provided with a travelling carriage from which
the load is suspended. The movements of the frame, the shear legs, the beam, the
travelling carriage and the raising and lowering tackle can be effected either by
suitable engines (which may be on the frame) supplied with steam or water under
pressure from a continuous longitudinal pipe, or by electromotors, or by gearing
from a continuous shaft. Instead of employing a travelling frame as above
described, the shear legs can be mounted on or near the combings of the hatches or
on girders fixed at intervals across the hatches.
By preference the shear legs and the beam which they carry are such that, when
they are not in use for loading or unloading, they may form parts of the structure
for carrying the coverings of the hatches, or can be packed under these coverings.
Instead of a single pair of shear legs, there may be two pairs connected at the
top by a suitable framing.
Dated this 9th day of March 1892.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Loading and Discharging Vessels.
1, JOSEPH TEMPERLEY of Wray Lodge, Reigate in the County of Surrey,
Shipowner 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 apparatus for loading and discharging vessels, particularly
those which have long hatches, extending a considerable distance fore and aft.
On a frame which can travel fore and aft on longitudinal rails I mount a pair of
shear legs which meet at the top and are secured by suitable stays. From their
apex is suspended a horizontal beam or girder which extends over the hatch and
sufficiently far on either side or on both sides to command the quay or lighter
alongside the vessel, and which is provided with a travelling carriage from which
the load is suspended.
The movements of the frame, the shear legs, the beam, the travelling carriage
and the raising and lowering tackle can be effected either by suitable engines (which
may be on the frame) supplied with steam or water under pressure from a continuous
longitudinal pipe, or by electro motors, or by gearing from a continuous shaft.
Instead of employing a travelling frame as above described, the shear legs can
be mounted on or near the combings of the hatches or on girders fixed at intervals
across the hatches.
By preference the shear legs and the beam which they carry are such that, when

page_text: they are not in use for loading or unloading, they may form parts of the structure
for carrying the coverings of the hatches, or can be packed under the coverings.
Instead of a single pair of shear, legs, there may be two pairs connected at the top
by a suitable framing.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a pair of shear legs S carrying
a beam B along which runs the pulley carriage C from which the load is suspended.
These shear legs may be pivotted as shewn on one side of the hatchway H.
Fig. 2 shews one of two pairs of shear legs S connected together at the top so
as to be in pyramidal form. The lower ends of these shear legs may be either
fixed in various positions at the sides of the hatchway H, or, where the hatchway
is of considerable length, they may be fixed on a frame fitted to be run on rollers or
slid along a track at each side of the hatchway. When two pairs of shear legs are
employed, they as well as the beam B, are made of such length that, when not in
use for loading or unloading, they are, as shewn in plan at Figs. 3 and 4 accom-
modated in the upper part of the hatchway, forming longitudinal girders to support
the cover of the hatchway.
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 :
For loading and discharging vessels, the combination of shear legs, beam
suspended from their apex and pulley carriage arranged to travel along the beam,
substantially as described.
Dated this Oth dovr of December 180
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.