An Improved Apparatus for Conveying Carriages, Vehicles, Boxes, Packages, and other objects from place to place.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd July, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 29th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 18th June, 1898 ·
An Improved Apparatus for Conveying Carriages, Vehicles, Boxes,
Packages, and other objects from place to place.
I, THOMAS HOWELL WILLIAMS IDRIS, of Pratt Street, Camden Town, in the
County of Middlesex, Mineral Water Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of an improved apparatus for conveying carriages vehicles
boxes packages and other objects from place to place.
The object of my invention is the economical rapid and easy conveyance of
carriages vehicles boxes parcels and other things from place to place and particu-
larly from one part of a factory mill or workshop to another for the purpose of
manipulation loading into vans and other purposes.
My invention consists of an apparatus in the form of a roller slide so arranged
that every portion of the roadway (including where convenient the sides) in touch
with the moving object revolves with the greatest facility and the least possible
friction whilst at the same time providing for equality of distribution of and the
maximum of support for the load.
My apparatus can if desired be so arranged that practically the whole of the
roadway is capable of revolving as any object is pushed or slid over it.
My invention is principally intended for sliding the load along same by simply
pushing same or allowing it to slide by its own weight but by a suitable addition
to my apparatus the revolving parts of the roadway or some of same may be
made to continuously revolve so long as desired and so carry the load forward.
One of the advantages of my invention is that the roadway need not necessarily
be horizontal but may be inclined at any suitable angle either to the horizontal
or vertical due regard being had to the position of the centre of gravity of the
load and the angle of inclination in either case may be gradually varied at different
points of the track so as to pass round curves over obstructions and a variety of
other purposes.
A subsidiary part of the apparatus is a means of continuous wicks and slots so
that a large number of similar parts of the machinery may be lubricated by one
and the same application of a suitable lubricant and with the least possible expen-
diture or waste of such lubricant.
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CHAS. R. TAYLOR,
63 and 64, New Broad Street, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: An Improved Apparatus for Conveying Carriages, Vehicles, Boxes,
Packages, and other objects from place to place.
I, THOMAS HOWELL WILLIAMS IDRIS, of Pratt Street, Camden Town, in the
County of Middlesex, Mineral Water Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:
The object of my invention is the economical rapid and easy conveyance of
carriages vehicles boxes parcels and other things from place to place and particu-
larly from one part of a factory mill or workshop to another. For this purpose
I arrange upon the roadway which may or may not be movable or portable, a series
of rollers capable of revolving in planes parallel, to the direction of the roadway.
These rollers revolve upon fixed or rotating spindles which are set in suitable
bearings in such a way as not to interfere with. the movement of any vehicle which
is being pushed over the rollers. In addition to these rollers, I also provide rollers
which rotate in a plane perpendicular to the plane of rotation of the rollers
referred to above. This second set of rollers is arranged at both sides and above
the level of the roadway, so that they may revolve when the vehicle touches either
side of the roadway, and thereby obviate friction between the vehicle and the
sides of the roadway.
Fig. 1 is a plan and Fig. 2 a sectional elevation of the roadway showing both
sides of rollers, G G are the rollers rotating on or with the spindles F, so that when
any vehicle or other article is placed upon the rollers G G the rotation of the latter
enables the article to be pushed over the roadway with great ease. DD-are the
horizontal rollers rotating on spindles E and arranged on both sides of the road
way to project slightly inwards and to receive the sides of the article when the
latter comes in contact with them. AA are Z shaped bars upon the lower limb
of which the bearings of the spindles F, rest and upon the upper limb of which
the horizontal rollers are fixed. The spindles are set in bearings formed by two
bearing bars B B which are blocks or strips of metal of suitable strength. Between
the bars B, B and the Z shaped bars A, A, a recess C extends along the roadway
in which recess an oiled wick or other lubricant can be placed.
The spindles F may be fixed and the rollers, rotate on them, of the rollers may
be fixed to the spindles which also rotate. The spindles may be caused to rotate
by the passing of any article over the rollers, or if the spindles are caused to rotate
by external motive power, it will not be necessary to push the article, as the
rotation of the rollers will propel it.
It will be observed in the form shown in the drawings that the rollers are dis- 3
tributed so that each one is opposite the spaces between two rollers on each spindle
before and behind it, by this means the weight of the vehicle is as evenly distri-
buted as possible.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of my invention and the
manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is;-
1. The method of applying rollers to a roadway so that any vehicle or other
article placed upon it will come only in contact with rollers on the bottom and
the sides substantially as described.
2. The use in roadways of Z bars for carrying the spindles of rollers substan-
tially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. Canals as C for holding and conveying the lubricant for the spindles of
rollers substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
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page_text: 4. The combination of rollers G, G revolving on or with spindles F, F having
bars B, B-rollers D and canals C substantially as and for the purposes described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 29th day of March 1898.
CHAS. R. TAYLOR,
63 and 64, New Broad Street, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.