An Improved Appliance for Securing Motties to Corves to Prevent them being Lost in Transit from the Workings to the Pit Mouth or other place.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Dec., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 7th Sept., 1899-Accepted, 14th Oct., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Securing Motties to Corves to Prevent
them being Lost in Transit from the Workings to the Pit Mouth
or other place.
REUBEN WILKINSON, Miner, 17, Ashley Place, Beeston Hill, Leeds; Yorkshire,
and HARRY HOWCROFT, Mechanic, 14, New Princess Street, Elland Road, Leeds,
Yorkshire, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improved appliance consists of three pieces of stout wire a b c d and e f
in the accompanying drawing. a b is bent in such a manner as to form a bar
having a loop in its centre, c d is linked at one end to the loop in a band at
the other end is linked to one end of e f. To the unoccupied end of e
affixed a check or motty, which bears the number by which the miner is dis-
tinguished, on the books of his employers.
f is
The improved appliance is intended for use in coal pits and the like places, and
is to be used in the following manner:-Before filling each corve, the miner
inserts the bar a b through a hole which is bored in the back of each corve and
which hole is just large enough to allow of the bar a b being passed lengthwise
through it. The bar a b now being replaced in its normal position, that is, at
right angles to c d the whole appliance will remain suspended, the hole in the
corve being too small to allow of the bar passing through in this position.
The corve being now filled with coal the appliance cannot be removed until
the corve is emptied.
Dated this 5th day of December 1898
REUBEN WILKINSON.
HARRY HOWCROFT.
An Improved Appliance for Securing Motties to Corves to Prevent
them being Lost in Transit from the Workings to the Pit Mouth
or other place.
REUBEN WILKINSON, Miner, 13, Lauder Street, Hunslet, Leeds, Yorkshire,
late of 17, Ashley Place, Beeston Hill, Leeds, Yorkshire, HARRY HOWCROFT,
Mechanic, late of No. 14, but now of 8, New Princess Street, Elland Road, Leeds,
Yorkshire, 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 improved appliance for securing motties to corves, consists of three pieces
óf stout wire A B C D and E F

page_text: A B is coiled in such a manner as to form a bar with a loop in the centre.
C D is linked at one end to the loop in A B and at the other end is linked to
one end of E F.
To the unoccupied end of E F is affixed a check or motty, bearing the number
by which the miner is distinguished on the books of this employers.
The attachment is intended for use in coal pits and the like places, and is to be
used in the following manner.
Before filling each corve, the miner inserts the bar A B through a hole which
is bored in the back of the said corve, which hole is sufficiently large to allow
of the bar A B being passed lengthwise through it.
The bar A B now being replaced in its normal position, that is at right angles
to C D the attachment will remain suspended, the hole being too small to allow
of the bar A B passing through, while in this position.
The corve being now filled with coal the attachment cannot be removed until
it is emptied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
That the novelty of our invention consists in: —