Improvements in or applicable to Shoots for the Delivery of Flour, ¡Grain, or other Pulverized or Granular Material, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 5th Dec., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Shoots for the Delivery of Flour,
¡Grain, or other Pulverized or Granular Material, and the like.
We DANIEL HALL, and JAMES HENRY KAY, both of Stockport Road,
Ashton-under-Lyne, in the County of Lancaster, Sheet Metal Workers, 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:-
This invention relates to that kind of shoot (for use by retailers and others for-
the delivery of flour grain or other pulverized or granular material, and the like).
from the lower end of which the material or substance is taken by means of
a scoop.
In such shoot the lower end is turned outwards the scoop being inserted through
the open end, which is closed by a hinged cover, a suitable baffler or inclined plate
inside the shoot protecting the opening and preventing too much flour or other
material from descending by throttling the lower part of the shoot.
It is found that when withdrawing the scoop full of flour or other material from
the open end of the shoot, a little of the said flour or other material (which has
accumulated at the bottom of the turned out part of the said shoot) is brought out
by the motion of the bottom of the scoop and falls to the ground thus causing a.
slight waste at every scoopful withdrawn from the shoot.
Our invention is chiefly intended to avoid such waste, and the invention consists.
of a cover for the open mouth of the shoot hinged at the bottom and provided with
a small open receptacle the mouth of which is uppermost when the cover hangs.
down and the shoot is open and catches the flour or other material pulled out
accidentally as above described by the scoop; but when the cover is turned up to
close the shoot the mouth of the receptacle thereon is reversed and the contents fall
back upon the bottom of the shoot. The mouth of the receptacle is so formed that
the flour or other material cannot fall out until the cover has been raised some
distance beyond the horizontal position.
We further place a plate horizontally between the lower edge of the inclined
plate which throttles the lower part of the shoot and the top of the opening, which
is usually arranged close to the open mouth of the said shoot, and provided with a
sliding door. We thus avoid the accumulation of flour or similar material in the
triangular space beneath the inclined plate before named.
Our invention will be readily understood on reference to the accompanying.
drawings,
Fig. 1 being a section through the lower end of a flour shoot with our invention
applied thereto the cover being opened, and Fig. 2 a partial view shewing the
shoot shut, and Fig. 3 a front view of Fig. 1.
a is the shoot made in a well known form with open outwardly turned end a', and
sloping plate a 2 to throttle the shoot as before described; we propose to provide a
horizontal plate a 3 between the lower end of the plate a¹ and the top of the
opening a 4, which can be closed as usual by the sliding door or damper a 5.
plate a 3 prevents any accumulation of flour or similar material in the space between
the lower surface of a 2 and the sides of the shoot.
This
b is the cover for the open end of the part a¹ and on the inside of this cover b

page_text: which is hinged at the bottom as seen at 61 is an open receptacle 62 the open mouth
of which is uppermost when the shoot is open (see Fig. 1), but when closed the
receptacle is of course reversed (see Fig. 3).
Any flour or other material falling over the edge of the bottom of the shoot as
the scoop is withdrawn full, will fall into this receptacle 62 and when the cover b is
raised to close the mouth it will be returned into the shoot again. The mouth of
the receptacle b 2 is provided with an inclined or angular inward projection 63 at the
back so that the flour or other material cannot fall from the receptacle 62 until the
cover has been raised some distance beyond the horizontal position, as seen by
the dotted lines on Fig. 3.
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 :-
1. A shoot, for the delivery of flour grain or other pulverized or granular
material or the like, provided with a cover at its lower open end, the said cover
being hinged at the bottom and fitted with a receptacle for catching any material
or substance falling over the outer edge of the bottom of the shoot when the same
is opened, substantially as and for the purposes described.
2. A cover for flour shoots provided with receptacle 62 and projecting part 63 at
the mouth of the said receptacle substantially as described and illustrated by the
annexed drawings.
3. The horizontal plate a 3 between the lower end of the plate a 2 and the top of
the opening a 4, substantially as aud for the purpose hereinbefore described.
Dated this 28th day of September 1896.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.