An Improved Conveyor for Carrying Coal or other material.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 30th Jan., 1893—Accepted, 1st Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Conveyor for Carrying Coal or other material.
I DANIEL WESTLAKE of Pentreguinea, Swansea Manager of Works do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I cut or shear bar metal to any length required and bend the same to form a
U-shaped link with two sides tapering to correspond with the length and width of
link. After marking and punching or drilling holes in upper and lower sides of
link, and countersinking them, if necessary, I connect them together by bolts and
nuts, or conical or countersunk headed rivets of diameter to allow sufficient play
for the links to pass over drums or other mechanism without unnecessary friction.
These connected links travel along suitable troughs, thus forming a series of com-
partments into which the coal or other material falls and by which it is conveyed to
any required place.
Dated this 20th day of Anril 1800
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Conveyor for Carrying Coal or other material.
I DANIEL WESTLAKE, of Pentreguinea, Swansea in the County of Glamorgan,
Manager of Works, 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 my invention is to provide a simple and efficient means to carry
coal or other material from one spot to another as required.
In order to fully describe the nature of my invention reference must be made to
the accompanying drawings and to the figures and letters of reference thereon.
marked.
Fig. 1 is a plan, Fig. 2 a side view & Fig. 3 an elevation of one link of
conveyor.
Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation through the conveyor and chamber through which
the same travels.
Fig. 5 is a plan of same.
Fig. 6 shows several links connected together forming part of conveyor.
Fig. 7 shows drums and links combined to form conveyor.
In constructing my conveyor I first cut bar iron to the length required_and
bend to the necessary shape-as the link A. Fig. 1-I then drill two holes BB,
or I may drill these same holes before bending the bar.
This bent piece has the two sides tapering outwards as shown in Fig. 1: so that
each end of the two sides G G shall fit outside the end F of the next link.
The holes B B are large enough to admit of a bolt or rivet D passing through
them: the bolt or rivet having sufficient play within the holes to admit of the links
passing round the drums E. when the conveyor is at work.
The link A, can be made of any length, breadth and thickness according to the
material to be conveyed.
In combination with these links it is preferable to have a wooden or iron trough
or chamber at the bottom of which the links pass on setting the drums E in
revolution.
It will be seen that when the links are over and above the said trough or chamber
they will form a series of travelling boxes or compartments into which the coal or
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page_text: other material falls in at one end of the trough or chamber and is conveyed to any
required spot.
Having now particularly described the nature of this invention & the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :
A cheap & novel form of conveyor made up of a series of U-shaped links, con-
nected together forming a series of boxes or compartments as described and
illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 28th day of January 1893.
DANIEL WESTLAKE.