Improvements in and relating to Elevator-buckets
Year: 1895

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Elevator-buckets
I, HERMANN DIETZ, of 23 Gustav-Adolph Street, of Leipzig, in the Kingdom
of Saxony, German Empire, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
suvention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement
This invention relates to an improved elevator-buchet, the characteristic features
of which reside in the following points First, the bottom-plate of the bucket
possesses but a slight ascent or acclivity, the angle formed between said bottom-
plate and a line drawn rectangularly to the connecting stiap or straps of the buckets
amounting to from 10 to 40 degrees, second, said botton-plate is supported from
below by sloping or oblique stays projecting from a special fastening-plate extending
downwards from the said bottom-plate, and thud, the sides of the bottom-plate
are comparatively low, and then upper edges ascend in the same, or nearly the
same, angle as said bottom-plate itself
This construction of the elevator-bucket affords a very advantageons angle of
cast or angle of projection; the cast or throw itself 18 free of shocks and a perfectly
uniform one The blower-like action of an elevator furnished with my improved
buckets is but slight, and the latter may, thus be driven with a high speed. There
results from all these points a great quantitative effect of the elevator, the more, as
in consequence of the slight height of the side-plates of the buckets the intermediate
space between every two of said buckets may be a low one
Referring to Figs 1 & 2 of the accompanying drawing, A designates the
bottom-plate, which is provided with the low side-plates a a¹. Said bottom-plate
ascends but little, and is preferably arranged so as to form an angle of no less than 10
and no more than 40 degrees with a line drawn rectangularly to the connecting-
stiap or -straps of the buckets. The upper edges of the side-plates ascend in the
same, or nearly the same degree as the said bottom-plate, the latter is at its front
or upper edge furnished with a strengthening-ledge a 2.
B designates the fastening-plate, which extends downwards from the bottom-
plate A, and is at its sides furnished with two strengthening-ledges bb
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said plate B project upwards and forwards the stays C C, which support said
bottom-plate A. The latter need not indispensably be perfectly flat, but may be
bent of curved so as to represent a shallow channel (Fig. 3), said channel extending
parallel to the side-plates a a' ot the said plate A.
The construction of my improved elevator-bucket as afore described affords au
important advantage with regard to the manufacture of the same, in that said
bucket may be made from a nearly quadrangular piece of sheet-metal, as indicated
by Fig. 4.
I wish it to be understood, that I do not confine myself to the exact conhgarations
and proportions represented in the diawings The dimensions of the several parts,
01 then proportions respectively, as well as then configurations, may be altered
within certain limits without departing from my invention as characterized in the
picamble of the present Specification.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim 18.-
1. An elevator-bucket having a slightly ascending bottom-plate with side-plates

page_text: a fastening plate extending downwards from said bottom-plate, and one or more
stays extending from said fastening-plate to the said bottom-plate substantially, and
for the purpose as described.
2. An elevator-bucket having a slightly ascending bottom-plate, a fastening-
plate extending Rownwards from sand bottom-plate, one or more stays extending
from said fastening-plate to the said bottom-plate, the latter having low side-plates
the upper edges of which ascend in the same, or nearly the same, angle as the
bottom-plate itself, substantially, and for the purpose, as described
Dated this 19th day of October 1895
'HERMANN N. DIETZ.,
By Geo H. Raynor,
37 Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.