Improvements in Quay and like Gantries and Staiths for Loading Purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Quay and like Gantries and Staiths for Loading
Purposes.
We, RICHARD EVANS of Penalltau Barry, in the County of Glamorgan, General
Manager to The Barry Dock Railway Company, and JOHN HOWELL HOSGOOD
of Park Crescent, Barry, in the County of Glamorgan, Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
Our invention relates to improvements in quay and like gantries and staiths for
loading wagons from the sidings on to the cradles of moveable tips, and the same
wagons when empty, from the tip cradles back to the sidings. It is particularly
applicable to a high level coal tipping arrangement, and consists in erecting parallel
with the dock wall, an elevated staging, upon which a traverser is capable of
running along its entire length, the moveable coal tip resting on rails immediately
in front of the before mentioned elevated railway, and capable of being also
traversed parallel with the dock wall.
The high level railway is brought in at right angles to the before mentioned
elevated staging. A full wagon is brought down an incline in the usual manner,
but instead of its being sent direct on to the tip cradle, it is placed upon the
traverser, and then the latter, with the full wagon upon it, is caused to traverse
along its elevated staging for the required distance, according to where the tip may
be fixed at the time, when the full wagon is sent direct on to the cradle on the
moveable tip, the tipping arrangements being of the ordinary character.
The empty wagon is then brought back on to the traverser which is moved along
back again to its original position, when the empty wagon is transferred on to an
empty road and a full wagon brought on as before described.
Referring to the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as part of this
Specification and read therewith,
Figure 1 is a side elevation, and
Figure 2 is a plan, illustrating my improvements and their connection with the
adjacent parts of the apparatus.
A is the dock wall and B, the water level therein.
Cis the movable coal-tip; C₁ its cradle; and C2, C3, the rails upon which it
can be traversed to and fro along the dock wall.. This tip railway runs close to
and parallel with the dock wall.
O is the sboot from the coal-tip in the direction of the ship's hold. The latter
is omitted from the figures for the reason that it is not affected by the present
invention.
G is a fixed coal-tip.
His a railway and turntable along the top of the dock wall for the trucks of
small coals or screenings from the movable tip C, to run on.
The parts above mentioned are of the same construction as heretofore.
F is the high level railway. The terminal portion of it-that which is illustrated
in the drawings stands at a right angle with the tip railway C³, as heretofore, but
stops short of it by a distance not less than the length of a waggon, in order that.
room may be provided for the elevated staging D. This latter is not shorter than
the tip railway C, and is parallel with it. A railway d, is laid along the top of it.
and on this is placed the traverser E which is, therefore, capable of being moved

page_text: up to the tip C in any position which it may occupy upon its own railway C³. The
traverser E occupies the full distance from the end of the railway F to the cage of
the coal-tip C when the latter is opposite the former. It carries at least one, and
preferably, two lines of railway e and el of the same gauge as the two lines f and fl
of the high level railway F. When it carries two lines, they are fixed across the
traverser at the same distance apart as the two lines f and f'.
The mechanism for traversing the traverser E upon its railway d, may be of any
suitable type; the type of it does not form any part of the present invention and
for that reason, it does not appear in the figures. Any of the well known hydraulic
traversers in general use may be made use of, such for instance, as a hydraulic
jigger fixed at one or both ends of the staging; or there may be placed upon the
traverser itself, a hydraulic engine driving a pinion engaging with a rack fixed to
the staging.
The present invention is used as follows:-The loaded waggons are brought
down the railway F on the up-line f. The tip C is shewn as occupying such a
position on its railway, that the cradle line is exactly opposite the line f. The
traverser E is moved along its railway d, until its line e aligns with both the line c
and the line f, thereby making them continuous. The first full waggon is then
run across the traverser E onto the cradle C¹ and tipped.
In the meantime, the traverser E has been moved until the line e aligns with
the cradle line c. The now empty waggon is run on to the line et off the cradle
line c, the traverser moved back until its down line 6 aligns with the down line f¹
on the high level railway F, on to which the empty waggon is shunted, while
the next full waggon is being sent on to the tip cradle in the way already
described.
When the tip C stands to the right or left of the railway F, the traverser E
is moved backwards and forwards between the tip and the railway F, carrying
alternately full and empty waggons.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. An elevated staging running parallel with the dock wall and at right angles to
the high level railway, as set forth.
2. An elevated staging, and a traverser adapted to work upon it in conjunction
with a movable coal tip and high level railway.
Dated the 20th dox of Sontember 1895
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
No. 22 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.