appar bre loading
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1887
Complete Left, 30th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 1st June, 1888
L, WILLIAM ANDERSON of 3 Whitehall Place in the City of Westminster Engineer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in loading apparatus for breech
loading guns.
The apparatus consists of a barrow on which the shot or shell is brought from the
magazine; and elevating mechanism arranged beneath the breech of the gun and
which removes the shot or shell from the barrow and elevates it to a position to enter
the breech of the gun into which it is then rammed by ordinary ramming apparatus.
The barrow (which preferably is carried upon three wheels and has a handle
conveniently arranged for pushing it along from place to place) has upon it two
standards, at the upper ends of which are recesses or bearings in which are carried
the trunnions of a tray in which the shot or shell is laid. The shot or shell is held
steady in the tray by a moveable stop upon the handle which is removed before the
shot or shell is elevated to the gun. The elevating apparatus consists of a curved
rack held between guide rollers in such manner that a circular or curvilinear move-
ment can be imparted to it by a pinion which gears with the rack teeth. The pinion
is driven from a crank handle by means of a pitched chain and a wheel and pinion or
other suitable gearing. The curved rack carries at its rear end a second or outer
cradle which receives into it the shot or shell to be elevated to the gun and also the
inner tray in which this shot or shell is carried upon the barrow. When the barrow
is run up to the elevating apparatus it is so guided by the aid of horns upon it that
the sides of the tray at the end of the curved rack pass between the sides of the
inner tray upon the barrow and the standards in which its trunnions are carried.
As the barrow comes to its place against the lifting apparatus the trunnions on the

page_text: inner tray pass up inclines upon the sides of the outer tray and drop into recesses
provided to receive them; then the curved rack being put in movement the shot or
shell together with the trays are carried up in a circular or curved course to the
position required. When on the barrow the shot or shell is carried with its point
inclined upwards at a considerable angle, but as in elevating the movement is over a
curved course the axis of the projectile becomes nearly horizontal by the time it
reaches its elevated position, and it is then properly aligned to enter the gun. The
outer tray carried by the curved rack is connected with it by a joint which admits of
some adjustment of the position of the cradle upon the end of the rack.
Dated this 23rd day of July 1887.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: 1, WILLIAM ANDERSON, of 3 Whitehall Place, in the "City of Westminster,
Engineer, 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 has for. its object improvements in loading apparatus for breech
loading guns.
The apparatus consists of a barrow on which the shot or shell is brought from the
magazine, and elevating mechanism arranged beneath the breech of the gun and
which removes the shot or shell from the barrow and elevates it to a position to enter
the breech of the gun into which it is then rammed by ordinary ramming apparatus.
The barrow (which preferably is carried upon three wheels and has a handle
conveniently arranged for pushing it along from place to place) has upon it two
standards, at the upper ends of which are recesses or bearings in which are carried
the trunnions of a tray in which the shot or shell is laid. The shot or shell is held
steady in the tray by a moveable stop upon the handle which is removed before the
shot or shell is elevated to the gun. The elevating apparatus consists of a curved
rack held between guide rollers in such manner that a circular or curvilinear move-
ment can be imparted to it by a pinion which gears with the rack teeth. The pinion
is driven from a crank handle by means of a pitched chain and a wheel and pinion or
other suitable gearing. The curved rack carries at its rear end a second or outer
cradle which receives into it the shot or shell to be elevated to the gun and also the
inner tray in which this shot or shell is carried upon the barrow. When the barrow
is run up to the elevating apparatus it is so guided by the aid of horns upon it that
the sides of the tray at the end of the curved rack pass between the sides of the inner
tray upon the barrow and the standards in which its trunnions are carried. As the
barrow comes to its place against the lifting apparatus the trunnions on the inner
tray pass up inclines upon the sides of the outer tray and drop into recesses provided
to receive them; then the curved rack being put in movement the shot or shell
together with the trays are carried up in a circular or curved course to the position
required. When on the barrow the shot or shell is carried with its point inclined
upwards at a considerable angle, but as in elevating the movement is over a curved
course the axis of the projectile becomes nearly horizontal by the time it reaches its
elevated position, and it is then properly aligned to enter the gun. The outer tray
carried by the curved rack is connected with it by a joint which admits of some
adjustment of the position of the cradle upon the end of the rack.
Figure 1 of the drawings annexed is a vertical section of apparatus arranged as
above described.
A is part of the breech end of a gun-B a shaft mounted transversely below it in
bearings carried by the gun platform-B' is a crank handle by which the shaft can be
turned there is one such handle at each side of the gun-B2 is a ratchet wheel on

page_text: the shaft and B³ a pawl engaging therewith-B₁ is a sprocket wheel on the shaft
and Can endless chain working over it and over another sprocket wheel D¹ on a
shaft D working in adjustable bearings-D2 is a pinion on this shaft working into
rack teeth on a curved bar E. This curved bar is held between guide rollers D³ on
this shaft and other guide rollers F on a shaft F below it as is shewn separately at
Figure 2. The rear end of the curved bar is also similarly held between other guide
rollers G G-it has also jointed to it the tray H which can be clamped to it in any
position in which it may be set in the manner shown at Figure 3.
I is a three wheel barrow with side uprights at the top of which are notches for
trunnions K at the sides of a tray K to lie in. This tray is shown separately at
Figure 4. Around the bottom of the tray is an inwardly projecting flange K2 for the
rear end of a projectile to rest against as shewn-L is a readily removable stop upon
the handle of the barrow by which the projectile can be held steady in the tray as
the barrow is being wheeled from one place to another-H' are notches in the sides
of the tray H into which the trunnions K¹ of the tray K enter when the barrow is
wheeled into the position shewn in Figure 1.
When the parts are in the position shewn in this figure and the shaft B is turned
by the crank handles upon it the tray H lifts the tray K and projectile within it away
from the barrow and carries them as shewn by dotted lines in Figure 1 into position
for the projectile to be loaded into the breech end of the gun.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. In loading apparatus for breech loading guns, the elevating tray and curved
bar for lifting projectiles in a curved course from a position below the gun into a
position just in rear of the breech and in line with the bore substantially as
described.
2. The arrangement of loading apparatus for breech loading guns substantially as
herein before described.
KORAJ