An Improvement in Apparatus for Loading and Unloading Vessels.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 19th Jan., 1893-Accepted, 15th Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Apparatus for Loading and Unloading 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:--
For loading and unloading vessels it is often usual to employ a yard or derrick
which can carry tackle over a hatchway to raise goods from the hold or to lower
them into the hold, and which can be swung round so as to raise goods from a quay
or barge or lower them. Now, according to my invention, instead of having to
swing the yard or derrick round, I keep it fixed in position and suspend from it
a beam which extends transversely across the vessel over the hatchway and also
over the quay or barge on either or both sides of the vessel, and which can be
inclined to the vertical or swung more or less round horizontally. This beam is
provided with a travelling carriage with tackle which can be run along it so that
goods raised from the hold can be run out and lowered on a quay or into a barge,
or the converse operation can be carried on. The beam is preferably so arranged
that by canting it into an inclined position it can form the framing of an elevator
having attached to it for this purpose the wheels and chain of buckets, so that
grain or other like materials can be dealt with for loading or unloading.
Dated this 19th day of April 1892,
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Apparatus for Loading and Unloading Vessels.
I, 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:-
For loading and unloading vessels it is often usual to employ a yard or a derrick
which can carry tackle over a hatchway to raise goods from the hold or to lower
them into the hold, and which can be swung round so as to raise goods from a quay
or barge or lower them. Now, according to my invention, instead of having to
swing the yard or derrick round, I keep it fixed in position and suspend from it
a beam which extends transversely across the vessel over the hatchway and also
over the quay or barge on either or both sides of the vessel, and which can be
inclined to the vertical or swung more or less round horizontally. This beam is
provided with a travelling carriage with tackle which can be run along it, so that
goods raised from the hold can be run out and lowered on a quay or into a barge,
or the converse operation can be carried on. The beam is preferably so arranged
that by canting it into an inclined position it can form the framing of an elevator
having attached to it for this purpose the wheels and chain of buckets, so that
grain or other like materials can be dealt with for loading or unloading.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings shews a mast M with a yard or derrick D
arranged to carry a beam B provided with a travelling pulley carriage C by which
loads can be raised from a quay or elsewhere and delivered on deck or into the hold
of the vessel or conversely.
The beam B may be inclined as shewn in Figs. 2 and 3 to form the frame of an
elevator E being provided with pulleys or wheels at its ends to take the chains of
the elevator

page_text: 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 is :-
1. In combination with a stationary yard or derrick projecting from the mast of
a vessel, a beam suspended from the yard or derrick and provided with a travelling
pulley carriage, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
2. In combination with a stationary yard or derrick projecting from the mast of
a vessel, a beam suspended from the yard or derrick in an inclined attitude and
provided with a chain of buckets operating as an elevator substantially as
described.
1000
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.