LIFTING AT ONE LIFT A LOAD OF CORN, HAY, STRAW, OR MANURE, OR OF OTHER THINGS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Archibald White, of Great Missenden, in the County
of Buckingham, Gentleman, for the Invention of "LIFTING AT ONE LIFT
A LOAD OF CORN, HAY, STRAW, OR MANURE, OR OF OTHER THINGS."
Sealed the 4th October 1860, and dated the 5th April 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Archibald White at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 5th
April 1860.
I, ARCHIBALD WHITE, of Great Missenden, in the County of Buckingham,
Gentleman, do declare the nature of the said Invention for "LIFTING AT ONE
LIFT A LOAD OF CORN, HAY, STRAW, OR MANURE, OR OF OTHER THINGS," to be as
follows:-
Its object is to lift at one lift a load of corn, hay, or straw, from a cart or
waggon to a rick or stack, or a load of manure to a heap, and for other lifting
purposes. The general outline of the apparatus is as follows.―
A triangular frame of timber, one side about one-sixth longer than either of
the other sides. Such frame to be laid on the ground horizontally, with its
long side parallel to and a sufficient distance from the intended site of the
rick or stack to be built, or heap of manure to be made, to allow a load on a
cart or waggon to be drawn between such frame and such site.
A tripod, each of its feet resting on and fixed by a joint to an angle of such
frame, such tripod being formed of three poles, having their tops or thin ends
connected, and an iron loop suspended from and under the top of such tripod,
and with sufficient braces, if necessary, connecting such poles at a proper

page_text: distance from the top of such tripod to insure sufficient strength. The size of
the frame and the length of the poles to be according to the height to which
the load of corn, hay, straw, or manure was required to be raised, and the
length of the beam (herein-after mentioned) to be according to the width of
the rick, stack, or heap to be built or formed.
A windlass, fixed to the long side of the frame and to the poles resting on
the ends of such long side, as shewn in the sketch referred to in the detailed
description, such windlass to have the usual notches and catch, and also a
friction break.
A similar frame, and tripod, and braces, but without a windlass, to be
placed the long side of such frame, parallel and close to the opposite side of
the intended site of the rick, stack, or heap.
A beam, swung by one of its ends from the iron loop under the top of one
tripod, and by its other end from the iron loop under the top of the other
tripod, and having a moveable projection to act as a stop as after mentioned.
An iron (call it the traveller), fitting and loosely embracing such beam for
about nine inches of its length, and having two rollers at the top and inside
of such iron, on which it may rest on the top side of the beam, and travel
from one end of such beam to the other, and an eye or hook on the outside of
the under side of such iron, to which to attach the pullies by which the load
is to be raised, and also a hook (call it the long hook), sufficiently long to
receive such load from such pullies when it is hauled up to such hook, with
means, as after described, of transferring such load from the pullies to such
hook, and again, when required, returning it to such pullies, and also means
as after described of raising the ends of such beams to and suspending them
from such loops, and also of again lowering them.
A net in which to enclose the corn, hay, or straw, when carried in the
ordinary cart or waggon, or a frame in or on which to place such corn, hay,
or straw or manure, or other thing to be lifted, with shafts, axle, and wheels
for such frame, but which frame could be lifted from and again placed on such
shafts, axle, and wheels.
The apparatus would act thus:-On the load of corn, hay, straw, or manure,
being drawn or placed under the part of the beam next the windlass, the
pulley attached to the traveller on the beam would be attached to the top of
such load, and the rope from such pulley being passed round the windlass,
such load would, by means of such windlass and pullies, be raised to the beam,
when the long hook would receive it, and if the end of the beam over the
windlass was a little higher than the other end of such beam, the load would,
by means of the rollers in the traveller and when the hold of the rope by the

page_text: windlass was relaxed, be by gravity passed along the beam until its progress
was arrested by the stop; the windlass and pullies would then be made again
to relieve the long hook of the load, such hook would, by the means herein-
after described, be drawn out of the way, and the load, by means of the
friction break on the windlass, be lowered to the rick, stack, or heap to be
built or formed, and before it ceased to be suspended be pulled or pushed by
hand to the part of such rick, stack, or heap required, when the frame or net
would be relieved of its load and again raised to the beam by the windlass,
and also by it drawn to the proper part of such beam for lowering, and be
lowered to the vehicle by which it was brought. The detailed description of
the apparatus so far as it is not herein-before given, is as follows:-
The frame to be in the shape shewn in the sketch No. 1, on the Sheet of
Drawings or Sketches accompanying this Specification, the side A being about
one-sixth longer than either of the other sides, and the ends of each of the
three pieces of timber forming it to be bound with iron to prevent splitting.
The timber forming the sides B, B, to be rectangular, and in cross section
about four or five inches square, and the timber forming A, to be in its cross
section rectangular, and about 4 inches by seven inches, and when fitted to
the frame to present one of its narrow sides up and the other of its narrow
sides down; the joint at each of the angles to be made by notching, fitting,
and lapping a proper and sufficient portion of the end of one piece of timber
over a proper and sufficient portion of the end of the other piece of timber, or
by mortise and tenant, and passing an iron bolt vertically through each of
the ends so jointed, such bolt to have at one end a worm and at the other end
an eye and a nut to be countersunk into the under side of the joint, into which
nut such bolt to be screwed, leaving the lower side of the eye of such bolt
nearly flush with and the eye projecting above the timber.
An iron eye to
be so attached to A, near each of its ends D, D, and at such a distance
towards the centre of A, from the eye of the said vertical bolt, as that when
the eyes at the end of each of the two poles of the tripod which are to rest on.
the angles D, D, respectively, are respectively placed between the eye of such
bolt and the eye so to be attached, a round bolt may be passed horizontally
through all three of such eyes and so connect them as to form a joint which
will hold the foot of the pole when the tripod is erected, and also when such
tripod is laid on the ground.
An eye E, E, to be so attached to each B, B, near the angle C, as that when
the foot of the pole of the tripod that is to rest on the angle C is in its place,
and butting against the top of the vertical bolt at the joint C, a bolt may be.
passed horizontally through such eyes E, E, and the eye at the bottom of that

page_text: pole, and so hold such pole there. If necessary, an iron stake with an eye at
top to be driven into the ground close to each of the three angles of the
frame, and such angles secured to such stakes by cords, or otherwise secured
to a stake in the ground at each of such angles. The tripods each to be
formed of three poles of equal lengths, and of sufficient strength, and suffi-
ciently braced to render each tripod capable of sustaining a weight of two tons
slung to and from under its top; the bottom or large end of each of such poles
to be cut to such an angle as that when the tripod is set up such bottom will
have an even and flat bearing on the angle of the frame on which it rests.
The bottom of each pole to be bound with iron to prevent its splitting, and
connected with such iron binding, and fixed with sufficient firmness to each
pole to be a strong iron eye so countersunk into the end of such pole as that
one outside of such eye would be flush with the bottom, and form part of the
bearing part of such pole, and another outside of such eye would be flush with
the outside of such pole, such eye at the end of the pole which is to rest on
angle C of the frame to be as wide as the side of the end of the pole to which
it is to be attached.
The tops or thin ends of the three poles forming each tripod to be each
bound with iron to prevent splitting, and such tops to be connected by an iron
bolt passing through them, and also through such 'iron binding, or to be
otherwise so connected as that when the tripod is erected the iron eye at the
foot of each pole will be in a line with and in proper position to receive the
bolt to connect such pole with the angle of the frame on which it is to rest.
A small pulley to be fixed to the inside and within a few inches of the top of
each of the two poles, the feet of which rest on the angles D, D, of the frame,
through one of which to pass a string to act on the hook next mentioned. A
loop of iron sufficiently strong, with an eye at each end, through which the bolt
passing through and connecting the tops of the poles to pass, and by which to
suspend such loop under the centre of the top of such tripod, but if the tops
of such poles be not so connected, then such loop to be otherwise suspended
in that position; the lower part of the sides of such loop to be flat and parallel
to each other, and a pulley (call it g) to be fixed, and revolve vertically
between such parallel sides, and a hook to be so suspended from the bottom of
such loop as that it would swing freely with its sides in a direction parallel to
the side A of the frame, and at right angles to such pulley. Such hook to
have a small eye at the bottom of it. The braces to each tripod to be three
pieces of wood, each piece of sufficient strength, and each long enough to
reach horizontally from each pole to the next pole at the height at which it
was determined to place them, the attachment of such braces to the poles to

page_text: be at each end of each brace, a pair of iron chops with an eye and two pairs of
eyes on each pole, each pair to so receive the eye at the end of one of the
braces that is to be attached to it, as that a pin could be passed vertically
through such three eyes, and hold that end of the brace in its place.
The windlass to be formed as shewn by the Sketch number 2 on the Sheet
of Drawings or Sketches accompanying this Specification, A being the side A
of the frame a, a, the poles of the tripod resting at the angles D, D, of such
frame c, a piece of timber similar to A, and bound at the ends with iron to
prevent splitting, and placed parallel to and about two feet above A, and
attached to the poles a, a, at each end by an iron eye in each of such poles,
and an iron square turned hook so placed at each end of c, that when c was in
its place such hook would point upwards, d, d, being four pieces of wood, each
end of each being bound with iron to prevent splitting, and each in its cross
section about six inches by three inches, and each two pieces placed vertically
and parallel, and opposite to each other, one piece of each side of A and c, and
bolted or otherwise fixed to A and c, and to a block of wood resting on the top
of c, and between and filling the space between and reaching to the top of
d, d, through holes, in which blocks the axle of the windlass to work; 0, 0, are
braces, so placed and held in their places by iron chops at each end of each,
as that such braces would cause a pressure on the books at the ends of c, and
keep such hooks hard in their respective eyes. These braces are to aid A and
c to sustain the upward strain the pull from the windlass will cause. e is the
windlass, to which and the frame supporting which must be attached a friction
break and the usual notches and catch.
The beam to be, if necessary, trussed on each side, and when so trussed to be
in its cross section about nine inches by five inches, or of such width or depth
in cross section as may be necessary to give the requisite strength, and when
suspended the narrow sides to be up and down, the side uppermost being convex
and the eyes by which to lift and suspend it being as shewn by the sketch
numbered 3 in the Sheet of Drawings or Sketches accompanying this Specifi-
cation. n, n, are the eyes by which the beams to be suspended when slung
under the tripods for use; i, i, are eyes to which to attach a rope to pass over
the pulley g, and by which to haul the end of the beam up to the top of the
tripod, each of such eyes (i, i,) being so placed with reference to the eyes n, n,.
that when the end of the beam is up to the pulley g, the eye n, may be in a
position proper to receive the hook by which the end of the beam is to be
suspended for use, such hook being by a string attached to an eye at the bottom
of it and passed over the pulley in the inside near the top of one of the poles
and thence to the ground, held out of the way until the end of the beam is up,

page_text: when such hook is to be let fall into n, and the end of the beam lowered to
its bearing on such hook and there left for use and such beam to be again
lowered by raising it by the same rope from its bearing on the hook, drawing
such hook out of the way by the said string and then lowering the end of the
beam by such rope. The traveller to be an iron case of sufficient strength to
cover and encase the beam for about nine inches of its length of a width just
sufficient to allow it to be passed easily along the beam and of a depth suf-
ficient to allow the rollers after mentioned to be placed and to act in its upper
part and for the attachments to its under side of the hooks or hook and eye
&c. after mentioned. A small iron roller so fixed at each end of and in the
inside of the upper part of such traveller as that they would rest and act and
roll on the top side of such beam, and enable such traveller whether loaded or
not to pass easily along such beam, such rollers to be concave in the cross section
of their circumference; so as to fit the convex top side of the beam. A piece
of iron to be firmly fixed to such traveller and project from its side at right
angles to the beam as many inches from the centre of such beam as the long
book is long, and to have at its extremity a pair of chops for and a small
pulley (call such pulley a,) fixed and working vertically in such chops, and
another pulley fixed and working horizontally on such projecting iron near
its junction with the traveller. At each end of the under side of such traveller
to be such a square turned eye descending vertically as that a pulley (call such
pulley w,) could be fixed in one of such eyes, over which the rope from the
lifting pulleys could pass in its way to the windlass if it was found desirable
to pass it over w, and a rope could be attached to the other eye which by
passing under the beam over a pulley attached to the under side of the stop, and
thence over another pulley attached to the under side of the end of the beam
which is not over the windlass to the ground would enable the traveller to be
drawn to the stop if gravity was not sufficient to take it there. A hook or eye
to be attached to about the centre of the bottom of such traveller, to which to
attach the pullies by which the load is to be raised, and a book (the long hook)
with a small eye at the bottom of it to be also so attached to the same part of
such traveller as that it (such hook) would swing freely on its attachment in the
direction of the pulley (x,) i. e. at right angles to and with its back and point in
a direction at right angles to the beam, its back being towards the pulley (,) and
such long hook to be of such a length as that when the load was by the pullies
raised to the beam it would reach sufficiently low to fall by its own weight into
the hook or eye by which such load was attached to the pullies, a small cord to
be passed over the pulley (*,) and also over the pulley working horizontally on
the same iron and one end of it attached to the eye at the bottom of the long

page_text: hook and the other end to pass along the side of the beam to and over a pulley
in the side of such beam, close to the end of such beam next the windlass, and
to reach thence to the ground, that by means of such cord the long hook when
not wanted for use might be drawn out of the way of the pullies carrying the
load. A stop formed of a piece of iron about one inch square in cross section
with a joint and thumb screw to so embrace and fit the beam as that by means
of the screw it might be firmly fixed on any part of the beam at which it was
desired to stop the traveller.
The hook by which the lifting pullies are to be attached to the load to have
at its junction with the pullies two eyes crossing each other and at right angles
to each other and such hook if found necessary to be double or quadruple
so as to be attached to the load in several places or to be otherwise so
formed as that it might be attached to the load in several parts of such load.
If the load was not too bulky to pass between the poles resting on D, D,
the long side A, of both frames might also be placed close to the sides of
the intended site of the rick, stack, or heap, and the load be drawn under
the centre of that tripod, and thus a considerable portion of the length of
the beam be dispensed with, but in that case the frame over which the load-
was brought must be so sunk in the ground, that the upper sides of B, B,
were flush with the surface of the ground, or if such frame was laid on the
surface of the ground earth must be placed on each side of B, B, for a
sufficient distance and sloping to the level of the top of B, B, to prevent the
load jolting in passing over B, B. The braces to the tripod under which the
load was brought must be the shape shewn in the Sketch numbered 4, on
the Sheet of Drawings, or Sketches accompanying this Specification, instead
of the shape before specified. The windlass must not be attached to A, but
must be at and just within, and as near as it could be placed (without impeding
its efficiency) to the angle C, and the part by which it is worked must
project outside the frame, and d, must be firmly braced by irons bolted
to B, B. There must also be another stop on the beam, placed near, but
at such a distance from the end of it, which is over the load, as to prevent the
traveller approaching nearer that end of the beam than might be desirable ;
and to give the load, as it was raised, a tendency to swing clear of the tripod
and its braces. There must also be a pulley at the extremity of that end
of the beam over which the rope by which the load is raised must pass
on its way to the windlass, and if found necessary to cause the load while
raising to swing clear of the tripod, a rope must be attached to such load,
by which a person on the rick, stack, or heap, might pull such load clear of
the tripod as it was ascending. In this case A might be the same size in

page_text: cross section as B, B. In this case also the windlass, instead of being placed
at the angle C, might be attached to A, of the other frame, and act in raising
the load by the rope passing from the windlass, so placed to a pulley fixed
to the part of the under side of the beam, which is immediately over such
windlass, when so placed, and thence along the under side of the beam to the
pullies, from which the load to be swung with means of holding by a rope
attached to it, and passing over a pulley attached to the under side of the
end of the beam over the load; the traveller in a proper position on the beam.
for raising the load, until such load was raised and placed on the long hook.
The net to be of a size adapted to the cart, waggon, or other vehicle used,
and to cover the bottom and reach thence, nearly but not quite to the top
of the ends and sides of the load, and to be formed of two strong cords to
embrace the load of corn, hay, or straw lengthways, and three strong cords
to embrace the load cross-ways, the meshes to be formed with smaller cords
united together, and to such strong cords, and for the purpose of tying the
strong cords, to be sufficiently longer than the net is long or wide. For
use with this net as stretchers, and to prevent the form of the load altering
while being raised, two light frames of wood, each of or about the shape
shewn by the Sketch, numbered 5, in the Sheet of Drawings or Sketches
accompanying this Specification, and of the length and breadth it was inten-
ded to make the load, one to be placed in the load, in a horizontal position,
as near the bottom of the cart or waggon as practicable, and the other to be
placed horizontally on the top of the load, such frames to have eyes or
hooks or rings on their sides, through which the strong cords of the net
might pass, or whereby such cords might be attached to such frames at
the sides and ends, and the top frame also to have eyes or rings attached to
the top of it through which the long cords might pass.
For use, instead of the net, a carriage composed of a pair of wheels, an axle,
and a pair of shafts, with splinter bar, and a cross bar at back end of such
shafts with a frame, which could be easily removed from, and again attached
to such carriage, such frame to be of a size to hold about as much corn or
hay as is usually carried in a load to a rick, and to be formed of spars of
wood, about twelve or eighteen inches apart each way, and have a bottom,
two sides, and two ends, such sides and ends to be either at right angles to
such bottom, or sloping outwards, and have ropes attached to the tops of
the sides and ends by which to secure the top of the load. For use, in
carrying manure to a heap, the frame must have either closely boarded
bottom, sides, and ends, or additional spars must be put sufficiently close
together to prevent the manure falling out, such additional spars or such

page_text: boards to be made to fit, and fix in temporarily for use, only when the frame
was used for carrying manure, and when it was so used, ropes (except if
necessary some to cross the top) might be dispensed with, and the load be
attached to the lifting pullies by irons or by spars of wood, having books at
their ends, attached to the hook at the end of the pullies, and reaching to
the sides, and if necessary to the ends of the frame. The frame would with
the load be lifted to and lowered on the rick, stack, or heap; it must
then be released from its attachment to the pullies, and such pullies must
be attached to the bottom of the frame, and such frame then by the wind-
lass be made to ascend bottom upwards, which would empty it of its
contents. The frame might be made to fit, and be carried on the common
waggon or cart instead of to fit the wheels, axle, shafts, &c., specified to
be made for it. For use, in carrying and lifting other things, the frame
must be adapted in shape, size, and make to the shape, size weight, and
nature of the thing to be carried or lifted, and the sides might, if desirable, be
so jointed at bottom and fixed at top that one or more of such sides could
be removed or let down, to facilitate the filling and emptying of such frame.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Archibald White in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th
October 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARCHIBALD
WHITE, of Great Missenden, in the County of Buckingham, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Archibald White, Her special licence, that I, the said Archibald White,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Archibald White, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "LIFTING AT
ONE LIFT A LOAD OF CORN, HAY, STRAW, OR MANURE, OR OF OTHER THINGS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Archibald White, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of

page_text: 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 Archibald White, 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 follow-
ing statement thereof, that is to say :-
The object of the apparatus is to lift at one lift a load of corn, hay, or straw
from a cart or waggon to a rick or stack, or a load of manure to a heap, or
for other lifting purposes.
The apparatus consists of two tripods, each of three poles with iron ferules
at each end, and united at top by a pin passed through their tops or otherwise
united at their tops, each pole being about 45 feet long, or of such a length as
the height to which the load was to be lifted required, and each tripod to be,
if necessary, braced by pieces of wood fixed to and extending horizontally
between the poles at proper distances from the tops or to be otherwise sufficiently
braced.
A beam of timber about 36 feet long, or of such length as the width of the
rick, stack, or heap might require, and sufficiently trussed for strength with a
large iron eye and a small iron eye projecting upwards from the top side at
each end, and a pulley or roller projecting downwards at each end and on the
under side of such beam.
For each tripod an iron loop with two eyes through which the pin by which
the top of the tripod is connected to pass, and by which to suspend such loop
under such tripod, or such loop to be otherwise suspended under the top of such
tripod, and a large hook to hang and swing from such loop with a small pulley
or staple attached to one of the poles, over which a string attached to such
large hook could pass in its way to the ground, and by which such hook
could be drawn out of the way when raising or lowering the beam; a pulley
to hang from each of such loops with cords to reach from it to the ground.
A traveller to straddle the beam and pass along it on rollers within, and
attached to such traveller with, on the under side of, and projecting downwards
from such traveller, an eye and a hook.
A moveable stop, or if necessary, two moveable stops for use on the beam
to prevent the traveller passing nearer to each end of the beam than might
be desired, such stops to be formed of jointed irons embracing and shifting on
the beam, and being held in the desired positions by thumbscrews, or to be
otherwise formed and held.

page_text: A windlass to be attached to one of the poles of one of the tripods or to the
frame on which such tripod stands, if it stand on a frame.
A pair of pullies with sufficient rope, one of such pullies to be suspended
from the eye under the traveller, and sufficient falls of such rope to proceed
thence to the other pulley, and one end of such rope to be attached to the
windlass.
A stretcher of one or more pieces of wood sufficient to prevent the chains
or ropes hanging from it binding the load of corn, hay, straw, or other
thing to be lifted, to hang suspended from the lower pulley, and from such
stretcher four or a sufficient number of chains or ropes to hang to attach to
the frame or vehicle in which such load is to raise it by.
A frame or vehicle, in which to place the load if of corn, hay, straw, or
such like stuff, such frame or vehicle to be on wheels, axle, and shafts with
sufficient splinter and cross bars made on purpose for it, or to be on and made
to fit an ordinary cart or waggon. For manure or such like, or any other stuff
or material, a frame or vehicle proper to load and carry it in must be made.
The apparatus should be used thus:-Place one of the tripods on and with
the bottoms of two of its poles about 20 feet apart, and both about 9 feet
from one side of the site of the rick, stack, or heap, the bottoms of all three
poles forming that tripod to stand on the ground, or to stand on or be fixed or
attached to a triangular frame lying on the ground, or to poles laid on the
ground in the form of a triangle; attach the windlass to such frame, or to the
pole of such tripod farthest from such site; place the other tripod with the
bottoms of two of its poles about 20 feet apart, and close to the opposite side
of such site, and immediately opposite the other tripod, the bottoms of all
three poles of this tripod to stand on the ground, or to stand on or be fixed or
attached to a triangular frame lying on the ground, or to poles laid on the
ground in the form of a triangle; place the beam eyes upwards with one of its
ends under the top of one tripod, and the other of its ends under the top of
the other tripod, and place the traveller on the beam, and attach the pullies
by which the load is to be lifted to the eye under such traveller, and pass the
rope which is to pass to the windlass over the pulley under the end of the
beam next the windlass, and attach a rope to the traveller and pass it over
the pulley on the under side of the other end of the beam, then to the small
eye at one end of the beam attach a pulley from the cord hanging from the
pulley attached to the loop over such eye, and to the small eye at the other
end of the beam attach a pulley from the cord hanging from the pulley
attached to the loop over that eye, and by means of such pullies and ropes
raise the beam till the hooks hanging from such loops respectively fall into the

page_text: large eyes at the ends of the beam, and on such hooks let the beam hang;
attach the end of the cord of the load-lifting pullies to the windlass; draw
the load into the space between the site of the rick, stack, or heap and the
tripod to which the windlass is attached, attach the chains or ropes hanging
'from the pullies attached to the traveller to the frame or vehicle in which the
load is, and by the windlass raise it till the hook suspended from the traveller
falls into the eye over the stretcher, then let go the hold the windlass has and
let the load rest on such hook, and by hauling on the rope passed over the
pulley at the under side of the other end of the beam, draw the traveller and
the load with it over any part of the rick, &c., which is under the beam to
which it may be desired to have it, then make the windlass take the weight
again, and by a string attached to the hook then relieved, passed over a small
pulley or small pullies on the side of the traveller, and on the side of the
beam draw such hook out of the way, and by a friction break on the windlass
lower the load to the rick, &c., and turn it from the frame or vehicle at once
on to the rick, &c. lowering such frame or vehicle from the rick, &c. at once,
'to be again sent off for another load, or leaving such load suspended until it
was pitched on to the rick, &c., or unloaded in the usual way. If it was not
desired to pass the load over the rick, &c. the beam and one of the tripods
and the traveller may be dispensed with, and the one tripod only used, such one
being placed close to the side of the rick, &c., the pullies by which the load is
to be lifted being attached to or suspended from the loop hanging under the
top of such tripod, and the load drawn under such loop and raised to the
required height by the side of the rick, &c., and unloaded in the usual way
while suspended from the pullies. The windlass also might be dispensed with
and horse power used instead.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is performed. I declare that I claim the combination of
apparatus, herein-before described, for the purpose of lifting at one lift a load
of corn, hay, or straw from a cart or waggon to a rick or stack, or a load of
manure to a heap, and for other lifting purposes.
In witness whereof, I, the said Archibald White, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
ARCHIBALD WHITE. (L.S.)