IMPROVED MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR ELEVATING, DELIVERING, OR STORING AND WEIGHING COAL AND OTHER MINERALS AND GOODS FOR SHIPMENT
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Hopkinson, of Normanton, in the County
of York, Colliery Manager, for the Invention of "IMPROVED
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR ELEVATING, DELIVERING, OR STORING AND
WEIGHING COAL AND OTHER MINERALS AND GOODS FOR SHIPMENT."
Sealed the 31st October 1871, and dated the 4th May 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Hopkinson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th May 1871.
I, JOHN HOPKINSON, of Normanton, in the County of York, Colliery
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVED MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR ELEVATING, DELIVERING, OR STORING AND
WEIGHING COAL AND OTHER MINERALS AND GOODS FOR SHIPMENT," to be as
follows:-
For elevating the coal I use a series of buckets or boxes attached to
an endless chain working over a tumbler and propelled by steam or
other power so as to deliver the same cither upon a shoot or into a
hopper; upon a shoot if the coal is required to be lowered directly into

page_text: a ship or in case the coal is required to be stored. In order to empty
the wagons I prefer to deliver it into a large box or hopper having
sloping sides from which it can be delivered as required by a shoot or
spout into the hold of the ship. The coal in either case is to be weighed
in passing from the shoot or hopper by means of weighing machinery
fixed in the shoot, which machinery can have a machine for registering
or indicating the quantity weighed attached thereto, or the coal can be
weighed in the usual manner.
Means whereby my said Invention is carried into effect are exemplified
by the Drawing accompanying this Provisional Specification, where A
denotes the elevator arrangement consisting of buckets secured to an
endless chain; B, the hopper to which the elevator delivers the coal;
C, place for weighing machine; D, shoot for delivery of coal into the
vessel.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Hopkinson in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 4th November 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HOPKINSON, of Normanton, in the County of York, Colliery Manager,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by 'Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Hopkinson, Her special licence
that I, the said John Hopkinson, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said John Hopkinson, 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 "IMPROVED MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR ELEVATING, DELIVERING, OR STORING, AND WEIGHING COAL AND
OTHER MINERALS AND GOODS FOR SHIPMENT," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Hopkinson, my exccutors or administrators,

page_text: 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 John Hopkinson, 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 :-
For elevating the coal I use a series of buckets or boxes attached to
an endless chain working over a tumbler and propelled by steam or
other power so as to deliver the same upon a shoot or into a hopper;
upon a shoot, if the coal is required to be lowered directly into a ship,
or in case the coal is required to be stored. In order to empty the
waggons I prefer to deliver it into a large box or hopper having sloping
sides from which it can be delivered as required by a shoot or spout
into the hold of the ship or other receiver for it. The coal in either
case is to be weighed in passing from the shoot or hopper by means of
any suitable tipping weighing machinery fixed in the shoot, but I prefer
such weighing machinery to be of the character of construction which
is described in the Provisional Specification lodged with my application
for Letters Patent, 13th May, 1871, No. 1292, which machinery can be
provided with machines for registering or indicating the quantity weighed
in the usual manner.
Having thus particularly described the nature of my said Invention,
and described generally in what manner the same is to be performed,
or put in practice, I will now proceed to particularly and fully describe
and ascertain in what manner the same is to be performed or put in
practice by the aid of the accompanying Drawings, where A denotes the
elevator arrangement consisting of buckets secured to an endless chain;
B, the hopper to which the elevator delivers the coal; C, place for
weighing machine; D, shoot for delivery of coal into the vessel or other
receiver for it. The use and application of these parts will be readily
understood upon perusal of foregoing statements.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and
object of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed or put in practice, I hereby declare that I claim the said

page_text: Invention of "Improved 'Machinery or Apparatus for Elevating,
Delivering, or Storing, and Weighing Coal and other Minerals and
Goods for Shipment," as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Hopkinson, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of October,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.
Witness,
JOHN JONES,
3, Moorland Road,
Leeds.
JOHN HOPKINSON. (L.S.)