IMPROVED MEANS OF AND APPARATUS FOR CARRYING OR TRANSMITTING COAL FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE PIT TO THE CONSUMERS CELLAR PARTS OF THE SAID INVENTION BEING APPLICABLE TO THE CARRIAGE OR TRANSMISSION OF OTHER SUBSTANCES OR GOODS PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Owen Greening of 6 "The Terrace" Camden
Square and Havelock Joseph Collins of 35 Camden Square both in the
County of Middlesex for an Invention of IMPROVED MEANS OF AND
APPARATUS FOR CARRYING OR TRANSMITTING COAL FROM THE BOTTOM OF
THE PIT TO THE CONSUMERS CELLAR PARTS OF THE SAID INVENTION BEING
APPLICABLE TO THE CARRIAGE OR TRANSMISSION OF OTHER SUBSTANCES OR
GOODS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Owen Greening and
Havelock Joseph Collins at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
24th July 1882.
EDWARD OWEN GREENING of 6 "The Terrace" Camden Square and HAVELOCK
JOSEPH COLLINS of 35 Camden Square both in the County of Middlesex "IMPROVED
MEANS OF AND APPARATUS FOR CARRYING OR TRANSMITTING COAL FROM THE
BOTTOM OF THE PIT TO THE CONSUMER'S CELLAR PARTS OF THE SAID INVENTION
BEING APPLICABLE TO THE CARRIAGE OR TRANSMISSION OF OTHER SUBSTANCES OR
GOODS
"
By the ordinary method of carrying or transporting coal from the bottom of the
pit to the consumer's cellar a large amount of breakage takes place and consequently
great waste occurs owing to the coal being constantly removed from one receptacle
to another. For instance the coal after having been first screened is placed in a
small wagon or similar receptacle at the bottom of the pit and raised to the mouth
of the pit. It is there turned out into another and larger wagon during which it
should be subjected to another screening. It is then turned out again into the
hollow of a vessel and again from there into a barge, then again shovelled into
other road or rail wagons or perhaps both once more turned out at the coal yard
when it has again to be shovelled into sacks and again turned out on arriving at
the consumers cellar. The coal should be screened before being put into the sacks
but very often owing to the carelessness and laziness of the men this is not done
and consequently a large amount of coal dust forms part of every ton of coal by the
time it is deposited in the consumer's cellar

page_text: Now our invention consists in improved means and apparatus for conveying or
transporting and delivering coal by which this breakage is obviated and economy
in time and labour as well as a large saving of coal are effected
In carrying our invention into effect we employ at the bottom of the pit
specially constructed wagons trucks or similar conveyances of any size or shape
and made of steel, iron, wood, copper, or any other suitable material. These
wagons or receptacles which may be constructed with or without loose bottoms,
side or end doors, and lids or any of them) are made detachable or disconnecting from
their wheels or under carriages or both so that the portion containing the coal cau
be removed and refixed as desired
The next portion of our invention relates to the construction of the larger
wagons or receptacles which are employed to receive the coal when it has arrived
at the mouth of the pit. These are constructed to receive the body portion of the
smaller wagons or receptacles hereinbefore mentioned and for this purpose may be
formed or provided with divisions or compartments of such a size that each of the
small wagons or receptacles when lifted off its wheels or under carriage or both
will fit into one or other of the divisions or compartments in the larger wagon.
The latter like the smaller wagons may be made of steel, iron, wood or any other
suitable material of any size or shape and with or without side or end doors loose
bottoms, lids or any of them They are also detachable from their wheels or under
railway or road under-carriage or both so that they may be lifted off and fitted
into a water vessel the latter being also provided with compartments of a size to
receive the body portion of the larger wagons when removed from their under-
carriage or wheels or both
On the water vessel arriving at its destination each of the body portions of the
larger wagons containing the body portions of the smaller wagons can be lifted
bodily from its compartment in the water vessel and refixed on to another set of
wheels or railway or road under-carriages Or the smaller wagons may be lifted
bodily from their compartments in the larger wagons and refixed on to wheels, or
under-carriages and wheels specially constructed to receive them and conveyed into
vans whence they may be taken down a portable line of rails over the consumer's
cellar plate
This latter according to our invention we make of larger size than at present
and preferably at one corner or edge of the cellar instead of in the middle as now.
We propose to fit or provide the cellar under the removable coal plate with a
screen (also removable) and a movable shoot or conductor Beneath the screen
we propose to place a portable box or receptacle and on the floor of the cellar we
place another screen forming a kind of false or removable bottom
The coal being now brought to the mouth of the consumer's cellar without
- having heen once removed from the wagon or receptacle in which it was originally
placed at the bottom of the pit is emptied into the cellar being screened as it
descends. When the portable box beneath the screen is full of dust it can be lifted
out (after having first removed the screen) and then replaced By this means the
coal is screened to remove what little dust may have been occasioned by the
oscillation of the carriages and by the descent of the coal into the cellar. When
the coal in the cellar has been used the screen at the bottom can be removed and
the immense saving effected by our method of conveying the coal from the bottom
of the pit to the consumer's cellar will enable the coal merchant to allow for the dust
he may remove before putting down the fresh load of coal
It is obvious that parts of our invention are applicable to the conveyance or
transportation of other goods or substances besides coal such as sugar loaves (where
great loss is occasioned by breakage) and other articles