IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR TIPPING COAL."
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Fowler, of Basford Hall, in the County
of Nottingham, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
TIPPING COAL."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Fowler at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th March 1874.
I, GEORGE FOWLER, of Basford Hall, in the County of Nottingham,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR TIPPING COAL," to be as follows:-
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The object of this Invention is to unload coal from pit corves or tubs
into trucks or on screens or shoots without breakage, to effect which I
employ a common side tippler, made by preference with two rings or
wheels, one rotating upon a fixed centre or bearing, the other rolling
upon small carrying wheels or rollers. Rails are provided for the corf
to run upon and horns to keep the corf in position when it is inverted,
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page_text: The lower half of the tippler is partly surrounded with a casing, which
is fixed and does not rotate with it. A portion of this casing is hinged
at one end so that it can be placed in such a position so as to act as a
door or drop. Ballanced levers or beams and suitable bearings are con-
nected to the door or drop.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Fowler in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 16th September 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
FOWLER, of Basford Hall, in the County of Nottingham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said George Fowler, Her special
licence that I, the said George Fowler, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Fowler, my 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR TIPPING COAL," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said George Fowler, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals,
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 immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Fowler, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention and in what mannow the

page_text: following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings
forming a part of this Specification :-.
The object of this Invention is to unload coal from pit corves or tubs
into trucks or on screens or shoots without breakage, to effect which I
employ a common side tippler, made by preference with two rings or
wheels, one rotating upon a fixed centre or bearing, the other rolling
upon small carrying wheels or rollers. Rails are provided for the corf
to run upon and horns to keep the corf in position when it is inserted.
The lower half of the tippler is partly surrounded with a casing, which
is fixed and does not rotate with it. A portion of this casing is hinged
at one end so that it can be placed in such a position so as to act as a
door or drop. Balanced levers or beams and suitable bearings are con-
nected to the door or drop.
Figure 1 is an chu view of the upper shewing the fixed centre.
Figure 2 is a transverse section shewing the ring carried by the
rollers.
Figure 3 is a sectional side view of the apparatus.
The apparatus is constructed as follows:-A, A', Figures 1, 2, and 3,
is a common side tippler, made by preference of two rings, the ring A
rotating upon a fixed centre or bearing B, and the ring A' rolling upon
small carrying wheels C. The rings are provided with rails D for the
corf to run upon, and horns E to keep the corf in position when it is
inverted in the usual way. The lower half of such tippler I enclose in
a casing F, which is fixed and does not rotate with it. A portion F¹ of
this casing is binged at one end, as shown at Figure 3, so that it can
assume the position shown by the dotted lines, and thus becomes a door
or drop. The moveable end of the door F¹ is connected by a link or
links to levers G, carried by suitable bearings. The levers may be
weighted to counterpoise the door F.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:- -A corf or waggon is run
into the tippler and turned upside down. The coals contained in it are
kept from falling by the casing, and when the corf is inverted rest upon
the door F¹, controlled by the levers G, the door being then lowered into
the position shown by the dotted lines in Figure 3. The coals lying
upon it will slide on to screens or into a truck or other receptable.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and tho
manner of performing the same, I declare that I claim the general
arrangement and combination of apparatus for tipping coal, as above
shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Fowler, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
Witness,
ROB. BROWN.
GEO. FOWLER. (L.S.)