Improvements in Gasholder Guide Carriages.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application: 28th Sept.,
1894
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Complete Specification Left. 28th June, 1895-Accepted, 3rd Aug. 1895
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gasholder Guide Carriages.
1. SAMUEL CUTLER, of Providence. Iron Works, Millwall, in the County
of London, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
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The object of this invention is to provide a bottom guide carriage for gasholders
which can be readily adjusted while the gasholder is in work and which does not
require packings or wedges to maintain its position after adjustment.
In this invention I attach a substantial base plate to the bottom curb of the
gasholder and, projecting from this base, I provide two long bearings or sleeves in
which I place eye rods, the eyes of which form bearings for the axle of a roller, and
the reverse ends of which enter the sleeves and are fitted with screw nuts.
In accordance with this invention the base plate is first bolted to the bottom curb
of the gasholder and afterwards the roller is adjusted with exactitude by means of
the screw nuts and maintained in such exact position by means of the nuts which
abut upon the faced end of the sleeve. No cottars wedges or packings are required
and the roller can always be subsequently adjusted as may be required without
interruption to the working of the gasholder.
Dated this 28th day of September 1894.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gasholder Guide Carriages.
I SAMUEL CUTLER, of Providence Iron Works, Millwall, in the County of
London, Engineer, 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 :-
The object of this.invention is to provide a bottom guide carriage for gasholders
which can be readily adjusted while the gasholder is in work and which does not
require packings or wedges to maintain its position after adjustment.
In this invention 1 attach a substantial base plate A to the bottom curb B of the
gasholder and projecting from this base 1 provide two long bearings or sleeves C
in which I place eye rods D the eyes of which form bearings for the axle E of a
roller F and the reverse ends of which enter the sleeves C and are fitted with screw
nuts G.
In accordance with this invention the base plate is first bolted to the bottom curb
of the gasholder and afterwards the roller is adjusted with exactitude by means of
the screw nuts and maintained in such exact position by means of the nuts which
abut upon the faced end of the sleeve. No cottars, wedges or packings are
required and the roller can always be subsequently adjusted as may be required
without interruption to the working of the gasholder.

page_text: Having now particularly described, and ascertained the nature of my said inveu-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. A bottom guide carriage for use on gasholders in which carriage the axle is
carried by adjustable eye rods fitted in long sleeves or bearings and adjusted by
screw nuts substantially as shown and described.
2. The arrangement and construction of gasholder guide carriages substantially
as described with reference to the drawings hereunto anucxed:
Dated this 27th day of June 1895..