Improved Apparatus for Moving or Carrying Sanitary Pipes during Manufacture.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 25th Mar., 1893
Improved Apparatus for Moving or Carrying Sanitary Pipes during
Manufacture.
We HEMAN COULTHURST, JESHurun CoulthuRST and ARMENA COULT-
HURST all of Robert Street Iron Works Darwen in the County of Lancaster,
Engineers, 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 construct an improved trolley or carriage for
the moving or conveyance of earthenware sanitary pipes from one place to another,
whilst in a more or less plastic state, that is, after they have been moulded or
formed and before they have been burnt or kilned.
The pipes in this state are each placed on end (socket upwards) on a board
provided with battens at the back and our improved trolley or carriage is specially
constructed to receive and convey these boards, together with the unburnt pipes,
without injury to the latter.
The nature of our said invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference
to the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section and Fig. 2 a plan view of our improved pipe
carriage.
The frame a of the carriage is preferably made in two parts and is provided with
a pole band adjustably fixed by nuts and bolts a* or otherwise to the bar 6x of
the said pole to allow of adaptation for various sized pipes, and a cross bar c is
also provided by means of which it can be drawn along the carriage being
supported on two wheels d preferably fitted with india rubber tyres and revolving
on short axles fixed to the carriage; the pole b is also carried by a wheel or
roller e.
On the carriage a is pivotted a forked lever ff' the forked ends f¹ of which
are attached by links g to two vertical slides h which are capable of rising and
falling in the frame a and the other end is provided with a hook i to connect it to
the cross bar c. The lower ends * of the vertical slides h are increased in breadth
and turned inwards so as to come beneath the board k outside the battens * and
support it. The forked ends f' are by preference also adjustable on the part of so
as to adapt the apparatus to various sized pipes.
The improved carriage or trolley is used in the following manner: the pipel
being on the board k (the battens k* at the back of which rest on the ground), the
hook i is unfastened, and the end of the lever fraised up until the turned-in ends h*
of the slides rest on the ground. The trolley is then backed so as to bring the e
ends underneath the board k outside the battens k* and central with the board.
l
The lever is then brought down raising up its forked end and the slides h
board and pipe rising with it, and the hook i is passed under the cross handle c
as shown at Fig. 1 when the trolley with its load can be readily wheeled to its
destination.
The hook is then released lowering the board k (and its load) until the battens
rest upon the floor and the trolley can then be withdrawn and wheeled away.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
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The improved trolley or carriage for moving or carrying sanitary pipes during

page_text: manufacture constructed substantially as herein before described and illustrated by
the drawings annexed.
Dated this 11th day of. February 1893.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants..