IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OF AND APPARATUS FOR LANDING, TRANS-SHIPPING, OR DISCHARGING GRAIN AND OTHER SUBSTANCES IN OR PROM SHIPS, VESSELS, GRANARIES, OR WAREHOUSES, AND FOR TAKING OR DRAWING SAMPLES OF GRAIN FROM GRANARIES
Year: 1867

page_text: of London, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS
OF AND APPARATUS FOR LANDING, TRANS-SHIPPING, OR DISCHARGING GRAIN AND
OTHER SUBSTANCES IN OR PROM SHIPS, VESSELS, GRANARIES, OR WAREHOUSES,
AND FOR TAKING OR DRAWING SAMPLES OF GRAIN FROM GRANARIES."
Sealed the 11th October 1867, and dated the 23rd May 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Stuckenschmidt
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 23rd May 1867.
I, LOUIS STUCKENSCHMIDT, of Seething Lane, in the City of London,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MEANS OF AND APPARATUS FOR LANDING, TRANS-SHIPPING, OR
DISCHARGING GRAIN AND OTHER SUBSTANCES IN OR PROM SHIPS, VESSELS, GRANARIES,
OR WAREHOUSES, AND FOR TAKING OR DRAWING SAMPLES OF GRAIN FROM GRANARIES,"
to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to facilitate the landing or discharging from
vessels grain or other analogous substances, and transferring such substances to
granaries or warehouses, or the reverse; this has been usually done by means
of stationary cranes, sack tackle, or other devices, but according to my
Invention the object is effected by a travelling elevator which is capable of
being moved along the front of the wharf, granary, or warehouse on rails

page_text: provided for the purpose, so that the cargoes of barges or vessels that may be
aground may be discharged and stored in the granary. In some cases where
there is no roadway along the water front of the granary or warehouse, or
where it may be more convenient, I connect the travelling elevator to a hori-
zontal shaft which is mounted in moveable bearings secured to the front wall
of the building, and along this horizontal shaft the elevator can be moved from
one end of the building to the other so as to bring it in front of any part.
In carrying out my Invention the elevator itself may be mounted on or
adapted to a framing provided with the necessary driving gear, and if desired
it may carry a steam engine and boiler to actuate the machinery. The move-
able frame may also be made to carry a hopper and shute cleaning apparatus,
and the necessary gear for raising and lowering the elevator, together with the
necessary counterbalance weights, may be mounted on the travelling frame so
as to accommodate the elevator to the rise and fall of the water or state of the
tide. Archimedean screws are employed for moving the grain; and in order
that access may be readily obtained to them when they require cleaning, or
for other purposes, the bottom or lower part of the casing is provided with
removeable flaps so as to obtain an opening for cleaning the screws.
In order to obtain samples of grain from a large bulk of grain stored in
granaries doors are made in the sides of the silos at convenient places for the
introduction of covered troughs provided at their upper side with an opening
which may be uncovered when the trough has been pushed into the bulk to a
sufficient distance. These sampling troughs may consist of two tubes placed
one within the other, and are each provided at their upper side with an opening
so that when both the openings are brought into coincidence the grain from
the central part of the bulk may be drawn out and examined; creepers or
carrier bands are also employed; and to facilitate the proper working of these
creepers or carrier bands friction rollers are adapted so that the band or
webbing runs between these rollers, which thus guide the band or webbing on
the drums and cause it to run straight. Rails are placed at proper distances
apart in the troughs, and the band or webbing is fastened to the axles of small
wheels which run on the rails, and thus the wheels take the friction instead of
the bands or webbing.
The above improvements are more particularly adapted to Mr. Devaux's
improved construction of granaries for which he obtained L'etters 'Patent,
haring date 8th May 1856 No. 1087.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Louis Stuckenschmidt in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 22nd November 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS
STUCKENSCHMIDT, of Seething Lane, in the City of London, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Louis Stuckenschmidt, Her special licence that I, the said Louis
Stuckenschmidt, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Louis Stuckenschmidt, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OF AND APPARATUS FOR LANDING, TRANSHIPPING,
OR DISCHARGING GRAIN AND OTHER SUBSTANCES IN OR FROM SHIPS, VESSELS,
GRANARIES, OR WAREHOUSES, AND FOR TAKING OR DRAWING SAMPLES OF GRAIN
FROM GRANARIES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Louis Stuckenschmidt, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Louis Stuckenschmidt, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-
The object of my Invention is to facilitate the landing or discharging from
vessels of grain or other analogous substances and transferring such substances
to granaries or warehouses, or to remove such substances from the granaries
or warehouses to ships or vessels; this has been usually done by means of
stationary cranes, sack tackle, or other devices which under some circumstances
are inconvenient to use.

page_text: According to my Invention this object is effected by means of a travelling
elevator which is capable of being moved along the front of the wharf, granary,
or warehouse on rails provided for the purpose, so that the cargoes of barges or
vessels that may be aground may be discharged and stored in the granary.
In the accompanying Drawings, Fig. 1, Sheet I., is an end elevation, and
Fig. 2 a front elevation of one arrangement of travelling elevator constructed
according to my. Invention. In this instance the travelling elevator is mounted
on a platform provided with wheels or trucks which run upon rails laid along
the roadway in front of the quay or granary. A portable or other engine is
placed upon the platform for the purpose of working the elevator by mechanical
power through the intervention of the gearing shewn in the Figures.
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a, a, is the elevator which is constructed in the ordinary manner, and is
actuated by the bevil gearing b, b, as shewn. The upper bearings of the
elevator are mounted in a frame c, c, which is capable of being raised or
lowered in the vertical guides d, d, as occasion may require. The vertical
adjustment of the frame c is effected by means of the chain e, which is actuated
by a winch or windlass f on the platform. The weight of the frame c and
elevator a is counterbalanced by the weight e at the end of the chain e; and
in order that the toothed gearing b may be capable of acting whatever may be
the position of the frame c in its vertical guides the bevil toothed wheel bis
capable of sliding up or down on the long driving shaft 6', which is actuated
from below. The grain when elevated is discharged into a covered channel h,
which conducts it to a hopper or chamber, from whence it is conducted to any
If desired the channel h and
part of the granary in the ordinary manner.
hopper may be raised more or less from the position shewn in the Drawing
so as to deposit the grain at once into any desired part of the granary without
the use of any other apparatus. In some cases where there is no roadway
along the water front of the granary or warehouse, or where it may be incon-
venient to use the arrangement of apparatus just described, I adopt the
arrangement shewn in Sheet II., in which a travelling elevator a is connected
to a horizontal shaft i which is mounted in moveable bearings ; secured to the
front wall of the building, as shewn at Fig. 3, which is a side elevation, and
Fig. 4 a front elevation of the apparatus; along this horizontal shaft i the
elevator a can be moved from one end of the building to the other, so as to
bring it in front of any part and over any barge or other vessel which requires
unloading. It has been shewn that the elevator a may be mounted on
adapted to a framing provided with the necessary driving gear, and when a
moveable platform is employed as shewn at Sheet I., it may if desired carry a
steam engine and boiler to actuate the machinery. The moveable frame may
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page_text: also be made to carry a hopper and shute, as shewn at Fig. 3. Cleaning
apparatus and the necessary gear for raising and lowering the elevator together
with the necessary counterbalance weights may be mounted on the travelling
frame, as shewn in Sheet I. so as to accommodate the elevator to the rise and
fall of the water or state of the tide.
Archimedean screws are employed when the grain is required to be moved
in or near a horizontal direction; and in order that access may be readily
obtained to them when they require cleaning, or for other purposes, the bottom
or lower part of the casing of the screws is provided with removable flaps so
as to obtain an opening for cleaning them.
Fig. 5, Sheet II., is a longitudinal section, and Fig. 6 a cross section of a
screw casing constructed in the improved manner. kis the screw; 1, the
metallic or other casing; and ', ', doors or flaps at the bottom of the casing,
and by opening which access may be obtained to the screw in the interior.
In order to obtain samples of grain from a large bulk of grain stored in
granaries doors or openings are made in the sides of the silos or bins at con-
venient places for the introduction of covered sampling troughs provided at
their upper side with an opening which may be uncovered when the trough
has been pushed into the bulk to a sufficient distance.
One of these sampling troughs is shewn in section at Fig. 7, Sheet II; it
consists of two tubes placed one within the other, and each provided at its upper
side with an opening as at m, so that when both the openings are brought into
coincidence the grain from the central part of the bulk may be drawn out and
examined.
Fig. 8 is a sectional view of a modification of the sampling trough just
described; Fig. 9 is an end view of the same.
In this instance the opening m
to receive the grain is made at the end of the trough, and is closed by a
moveable shutter m², Fig. 9. Creepers or carrier bands are employed to carry
the grain along the narrow passages between the silos; these creepers and
the mechanism for actuating the same are placed in sunken channels between
the silos as shewn in the sectional views, Figures 10, 11, 12, and 13, Sheet III.
In order to facilitate the proper working of these creepers or carrier bands
friction rollers n, n, Fig. 10, are adapted so that the band or webbing runs
between these rollers, which will thus guide the band or webbing on the
drums p and cause it to run straight.
Fig. 11 is a diagram on a small scale representing the endless band or
creeper o passing over the drum p and guided by the rollers n, n, which keep
the band or creeper extended in a lateral direction.

page_text: Fig. 12 is a longitudinal section of another arrangement for actuating the
carrier band or creeper o.
Fig. 13 is a cross section of the same drawn on an enlarged scale. Rails q, q,
are placed at proper distances apart in the sunken channels, and the carrier
band or webbing o is fastened to the axles r of small wheels s, which run on
the rails q, and thus the wheels s take the friction instead of the bands or
webbing o. The carrier band o is actuated by means of an endless chain t
provided with projecting spikes which come against the axles r of the wheels s
and carry them forward, and with them the band o which is secured thereto.
The above improvements are more particularly adapted to Alexandre
Devaux's improved construction of granaries, for which he obtained Letters
Patent, bearing date Eighth May, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six,
No. 1087.
Having now described my Invention of "Improvements in the Means of
and Apparatus for Landing, Transhipping, or Discharging Grain and other
Substances in or from Ships, Vessels, Granaries, or Warehouses, and for Taking
or Drawing Samples of Grain from Granaries," and having explained the
manner of carrying the same into effect, I claim as the Invention secured to
me by Letters Patent as aforesaid,-
The mode of applying travelling elevating apparatus which is capable of
being moved along the quay or along the face of the granary or warehouse as
herein set forth, so that grain or other substances may be landed, transhipped,
or discharged at any state of the tide, and even when the vessel is aground.
I also claim the apparatus shewn for sampling, and the creepers for moving
or transferring grain in granaries or warehouses, as herein set forth.
And, lastly, the improvement in the archimedean screw casing as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Stuckenschmidt, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Twenty-first day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Witness,
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lane.
LOUIS STUCKENSCHMIDT. (L.S.)