IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR TILTING CASKS AND OTHER VESSELS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter James Catterall, Machinist, and John Sidney
Crowley, Engineer, both of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, for an
Invention of " IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR TILTING CASKS AND OTHER
VESSELS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter James Catterall &
John Sidney Crowley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
4th November 1880.
PETER JAMES CATTERALL, Machinist, and JOHN SIDNEY CROWLEY, Engineer,
both of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster. "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
TILTINO CASKS AND OTHER VESSELS."
In performing our Invention we make use of a worm wheel and a sprocket wheel
cast or fixed together on a shaft, and supported in suitable bearings, by preference
in a small frame casting, and we pass a chain over the sprocket wheel, at one
end of which chain is a hook to hook under the end of the cask or other
vessel; we use a worm on a shaft on which is a handle fitted in bearings in the
frame, above mentioned, taking into the worm wheel, and when it is desired to
tilt the cask or other vessel the worm is turned round, thus slowly and steadily
raising the vessel to which the chain is hooked.
The apparatus is fixed to a wall or beam or placed on a bar on which it may
slide above the vessel or vessels to be tilted.
In some cases we use a ratchet wheel and catch instead of the worm wheel and
worm, and place the handle on the shaft on which are the ratchet wheel and
sprocket wheel. This apparatus may be fixed on the stillage or to a frame below
the vessel to be raised, and a rack, on which is a crutch, to rest under the end of
the vessel is used, the worm wheel gearing into the said rack to raise it.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Peter James Catterall & John Sidney Crowley in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 4th May 1881.
PETER JAMES CATTERALL, Machinist, and JOHN SIDNEY CROWLEY, Engineer,
"IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
both of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster.
TILTING CASKS AND OTHER VESSELS."
In performing our Invention we make use of a worm wheel and a sprocket
wheel cast or fixed together on a shaft, and supported in suitable bearings, by
preference in a small frame casting, and we pass a chain over the sprocket wheel,
at one end of which chain is a hook to hook under the end of the cask or other
vessel; we use a worm on a shaft on which is a handle fitted in bearings in the
frame, above mentioned, taking into the worm wheel, and when it is desired to
tilt the cask or other vessel the worm is turned round, thus slowly and steadily
raising the vessel to which the chain is hooked. The apparatus is fixed to a wall
or beam, or placed on a bar on which it may slide above the vessel or vessels to be
tilted. In some cases we use a ratchet wheel and catch instead of the worm wheel
and worm, and place the handle on the shaft on which are the ratchet wheel and
sprocket wheel. This apparatus may be fixed on the stillage or to a frame below
the vessel to be raised, and a rack, on which is a crutch, to rest under the end of
vessel is used, the worm wheel gearing into the said rack to raise it.
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect, we will describe the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, reference being
had to the Figures and letters marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of our improved tilting
apparatus. 'is the sprocket wheel cast with the worm wheel band shaft c that
turns in bearings in the frame sides; d is a shaft that turns in bearings in the
back and front of the frame on which is formed the worm e taking into the worm
wheel b; the front and upper part of the sides of the frame are cast in one piece
'marked f, and the lower part of the sides and the back of the frame are cast in one
On the shaft d is á
piece g; the front and back are held together by the bolts h.
crank i, and fitting over the sprocket wheel a is a chain j, at one end of which is
a hook by which it is fastened to the cask or vessel to be tilted; this apparatus
may be suspended on a bark on which it may slide, or it can be fixed to a wall
or beam..
5.
.
When the chain has been hooked to the cask to be tilted the crank i'is turned
until the end of the cask has been raised slowly and steadily to the height
required. This apparatus may be used to tilt any vessel.
"
Having stated the nature of our Invention and described how the same is to be
performed, we would have it understood that we do not limit ourselves to the
details given, but what we claim is,
... I
The combination of the sprocket wheel and worm wheel'actuated by the worm
for tilting casks and other vessels, substantially. as shown and described.
.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter James Catterall, for myself and on
the behalf of the said John Sidney Crowley, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Second day of May, One thousand eight hundred and eighty
one.
PETER JAMES CATTERALL. (LS.)