Improvements in Floating Apparatus for Discharging Ships' Cargoes
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Dec., 1886.
Complete Left, 11th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 12th Aug., 1887.
I WILLIAM GOODWIN of 7 Brunswick Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Corn Broker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention relates to floating apparatus movable from ship to ship and the
object is to so make such apparatus that the portion used for raising the grain or
other substance from the ships hold may readily and fully be raised, lowered and
moved to and fro as desired.
The invention consists essentially in the combination of a floating structure or
carrier having an arm pivotted thereto, with a band and bucket or equivalent elevator
carried in sliding bearings on the said arm-suitable driving gear is provided.
Under a modification both the arm and the elevator are provided with sliding
bearings.
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JAMES JOHNSON,
Agent.
Improvements in Floating Apparatus for Discharging Ships' Cargoes.
I WILLIAM GOODWIN of 7 Brunswick Street Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Corn Broker, 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 invention relates to floating apparatus movable from ship to ship and the object
is to so make such apparatus that the portion used for raising the grain or other

page_text: substance from the ships hold may readily and freely be raised, lowered and moved to
and fro as desired.
The invention consists essentially in the combination of a floating structure or
carrier having an arm pivotted thereto, with a band and bucket or equivalent elevator
carried in sliding bearings on the said arm, suitable driving gear is provided.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1. is an elevation and Figure 2 a front view of apparatus under my
invention. a is a floating structure or carrier in the form of a barge, or lighter, or
pontoons provided with a stage or standards b. c arm pivotted to the stage or
standards of the carrier at d. e band and bucket elevator of convenient or usual
construction. The said elevator is pivotted in bearings f which are capable of sliding
in slots g in the arm c. The bearings are moved to and fro in the slots as required,
by means of screw hydraulic or other appliances as may be found desirable. h. winch
actuating a rope or chain * for turning the arm c on its pivots so as to raise or
lower the elevator, i engine for giving motion through belts or pulleys or chains, or
toothed gearing to the elevator band and buckets. These parts may be arranged in
any suitable way. Instead of slots 9. solid guides may be used. ship being
discharged. conveyer for delivering the grain or cargo to a weighing bucket or on
to a Quay or other place. The conveyer is constructed and arranged in any usual
and convenient way.
Under a modification I provide guides or sliding bearings so that the arm may be
moved to and fro on the stage or standards in a similar manner to that in which the
elevator may be moved to and fro on the arm. The motion of the elevator on the
arm and the motion of the arm on the stage or standards facilitates the passage of
the elevator down the hatchways and its withdrawal therefrom and also allows of
adjustment in case the ship being discharged should take a list.-The dotted lines
show the position of the arm and elevator when they are housed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :—
First The combination of floating structure or carrier having an arm pivotted
thereto with a band and bucket elevator or its equivalent carried in sliding bearings
on the said arm for the purposes set forth.
Second-Floating apparatus having both an arm and an elevator capable of sliding
in bearings, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.
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