An Improved Machine for Collecting Mud.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 4th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 6th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Machine for Collecting Mud.
1, LUDOLF WALTER of Alvensleben, Reg. Bez Magdeburg, Germany,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
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This invention relates to an improved machine for collecting mud that has
preferably been brought or swept into strips in the streets or roads.
Such a machine according to this invention comprises a cellular wheel at the
rear part of which is a casing carried by a system of levers, and which serves to
retain the mud in the compartments or buckets of the cellular wheel until the
said buckets assume such a position in the rotation of the cellular wheel that the
mud therein slides into a tipping box suspended inside the said wheel.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a machine according to this invention, and
Fig. 2 is a plan of the rear part thereof.
A is the cellular chambered, or bucket wheel having two ring-shaped iron side
walls, and transverse walls of iron, about eighteen in number, dividing the wheel
into cells or buckets.
B is the casing at the rear part or periphery supported by a rocking frame e.
C is the tipping box mounted on the wheel axle.
D is a sliding piece or sledge which is drawn along in front of the wheel A.
The frame e of the casing B is connected by a system of links and levers f g h
with a handle by which it is raised or lowered. For tipping the box C a handle k
is provided on a shaft n upon which a chain o is wound, the other end passing
under the box C and being connected to the rear wall of the same. The apparatus
is mounted on a suitable frame provided with travelling wheels E (not shewn in
Fig. 1).
The wheel A is firmly connected with one of the carriage wheels, and rolls along
on the strip of mud, its transverse walls entering into the mud, which is enclosed
by the chambers or cells and is prevented from passing out to the rear by the
casing B, said mud being raised until it slides down into the box C which projects.
with one side into the cellular wheel.
The sledge D collects the mud from those places where the mud has been
flattened down by vehicles, by means of its side walls which converge towards the
cellular wheel.
After the casing has been raised by the lever mechanism f g h and the handle i
the emptying of the box C can be effected by turning the handle the chain
being wound up on the shaft n when the said handle is rotated, whereby the box is,
tipped over to the rear.
Jamming of stones between the cellular wheel A and casing B is obviated,
because in such a case, the casing, oscillating with the frame e about the journal
would rise into the position indicated by the dotted line
cellular wheel, the remaining lever system is held by the pawl w in a fixed
Fig. 1, away from the
position.
For the purpose of adapting itself better to the surface of the street or road the
casing is formed of a number of sections arranged side by side which are capable of
ising and sinking independently of the casing, concentrically to the casing.
The distance of the casing from the cellular wheel may be regulated by means
f suitable screw threaded extremities on which work nuts carried in brackets on
he lever frame e.

page_text: The sledge D is raised simultaneously with the casing B the sledge being
connected by the chain u and the lever with the common lever mechanism.
Dated this 28th day of December 1891.
L. WALTER,
By L. W., per F. B.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Machine for Collecting Mud.
I, LUDOLF WALTER of Alveusleben, Reg. Bez. Magdeburg, Germany, Engineer,
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 :-
This invention relates to an improved machine for collecting mud that has
preferably been brought or swept into strips in the streets or roads.
Such a machine according to this invention comprises a cellular wheel at the
rear part of which is a casing carried by a system of levers, and which serves to
retain the mud in the compartments or buckets of the cellular wheel until the said
buckets assume such a position in the rotation of the cellular wheel that the mud
therein slides into a tipping box suspended inside the said wheel.
In the drawings filed with my Provisional Specification
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a machine according to this invention, and
Fig. 2 is a plan of the rear part thereof.
A is the cellular chambered or bucket wheel having two ring-shaped iron side
walls, and transverse walls of iron about eighteen in number dividing the wheel
into cells or buckets.
B is the casing at the rear part or periphery, supported by a rocking frame e.
C is the tipping box mounted on the wheel axle.
D is a sliding piece or sledge which is drawn along in front of the wheel A.
The frame e of the casing B is connected by a system of links and levers f
with a handle i by which it is raised or lowered.
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For tipping the box C a handle is provided on a shaft n upon which a chain o
is wound, the other end passing under the box C, and being connected to the rear
wall of the same. The apparatus is mounted on a suitable frame provided with
travelling wheels E (not shewn in Fig. 1).
The cellular wheel A is firmly connected with one of the carriage wheels, and
rolls along on the strip of mud, its transverse walls entering into the mud, which
is enclosed by the chambers or cells and is prevented from passing out to the rear
by the casing B, the mud being raised until it slides down into the box C which
projects with one side into the cellular wheel.
The sledge D collects the mud from those places where it has been flattened
down by vehicles, by means of its side walls which converge towards the cellular
wheel.
After the casing B has been raised by the lever mechanism f g h and the handle i
the emptying of the box C can be effected by turning the handle k the chain o
being wound up on the shaft n when the said bandle is rotated whereby the box is
tipped over to the rear.
Jamming of stones between the cellular wheel A and casing B is obviated,
because in such a case, the casing, oscillating with the frame e about the journal p,
would rise into the position indicated by the dotted liner Fig. 1, away from the
cellular wheel; the remaining lever system f g h is held by the pawl wo in a fixed
position.
For the purpose of adapting itself better to the surface of the street or road, the
casing is formed of a number of sections arranged side by side which are capable
of rising and sinking independently of the casing, concentrically to the casing.

page_text: The distance of the casing from the cellular wheel may be regulated by means of
suitable screw-threaded extremities on which work nuts carried in brackets t on the
lever frame e.
The sledge D is raised simultaneously with the casing B, the sledge being
connected by the chain and the lever with the common lever mechanism.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved mud-collecting machine comprising the cellular wheel A. the
casing B the tipping box C and sledge D, the whole arranged and operating
substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
Dated thin h 1
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L. WALTER,
By L. W., per F. B.