Improvements in Trucks, Buckets, or Vehicles for Transporting Substances of Various Kinds, including Iron Ore, Coal, Grain, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 27th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 23rd Jan., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Trucks, Buckets, or Vehicles for Transporting
Substances of Various Kinds, including Iron Ore, Coal, Grain,
and the like.
We, GEORGE HENRY COLLINS of 3 Fairfax Place, Dartmouth in the County
of Devon, and ALFRED EDWARD GARWOOD of Hazelwood, Stow Park, Newport
in the County of Monmouth, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
This invention relates to an improved construction of trucks, buckets, or vehicles
adapted for transporting substances of various kinds including iron ore, coal, grain
and the like, whether from ship to ship, wharf to ship, vice versa or otherwise.
The vehicle body which may be of any suitable form (preferably square in plan
as being more convenient than the rounded shape usually adopted in this class of
vehicle) is constructed with a bottom composed of two parts, hinged at each of the
ends (or sides) of the vehicle and each being balanced by a weighted overhanging
part adapted to be engaged by a trigger (or arm) with which is connected a chain
or equivalent whereby the respective bottom parts can be released so that it will
then fall open if the vehicle be loaded or partly loaded, the arrangement being
such that when the vehicle is empty the two parts of the bottom will automatically
close and they will become automatically locked by their respective triggers if
these be released by letting go their respective chains or operating connections.
The vehicle can be constructed with wheels so as to serve as a truck or if
designed for use only as a bucket, wheels may be dispensed with.
A handle or chain sling is provided at the upper part of the vehicle by which it
may be hoisted by a crane.
The triggers are protected on each side by skeleton frames or by a shield
specially provided for that purpose.
The skeleton frames also serve the purpose of protection when lowering the
vehicle through hatchways of vessels, and when fitted with suitable couplings
afford a convenient and simple means for hauling the vehicle from place to place if
it be provided with wheels. On arrival at its destination the vehicle body may be
lifted off the axles, truck or railway, by a crane of suitable capacity and when in
the proper position the triggers may be released to open the bottom and discharge
the contents by pulling a chain on a lever attached to the trigger or by a direct
blow on the lever when the contents will be at once released and discharged.
Vehicles such as described may be constructed of corrugated steel plates
combining great strength with lightness.
Dated this 7th day of November 1801
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Trucks, Buckets, or Vehicles for Transporting
Substances of Various Kinds, including Iron Ore, Coal, Grain,
and the like.
We, GEORGE HENRY COLLINS of 3 Fairfax Place, Dartmouth in the County
of Devon, and ALFRED EDWARD GARWOOD of Hazelwood, Stow Park, Newport
in the County of Monmouth, 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 construction of trucks, buckets, or vehicles
adapted for transporting substances of various kinds including iron ore, coal, grain
and the like, whether from ship to ship, wharf to ship, vice versa or otherwise.
The vehicle body which may be of any suitable form (preferably square in plan
as being more convenient than the rounded shape usually adopted in this class of
vehicle) is constructed with a bottom composed of two parts, one hinged at each of
the ends (or sides) of the vehicle and each being balanced by a weighted over-
hanging part adapted to be engaged by a trigger (or arm) with which is connected
a chain or equivalent whereby the respective bottom part can be released so that it
will then fall open if the vehicle be loaded or partly loaded, the arrangement being
such that when the vehicle is empty the two parts of the bottom will automatically
close and they will become automatically locked by their respective triggers if
these be released by letting go their respective chains or operating connections.
The vehicle can be constructed with wheels so as to serve as a truck or if
designed for use only as a bucket, wheels may be dispensed with.
A handle or chain sling is provided at the upper part of the vehicle by which it
may be hoisted by a crane.
The triggers are protected on each side by skeleton frames or by a shield
specially provided for that purpose.
The skeleton frames serve to protect the vehicle when it is being lowered
through hatchways of vessels, and when fitted with suitable couplings will also
afford a convenient and simple means for hauling the vehicle from place to place if
it be provided with wheels. On arrival of the vehicle at its destination the body
may be lifted off the axles, truck or railway, by a crane of suitable capacity, and
when in the proper position the triggers may be released to open the bottom and
discharge the contents by pulling chains on levers attached to the triggers or by
a direct blow on each lever when the contents will be at once released and
discharged.
Vehicles such as described may be constructed of corrugated steel plates thereby
combining great strength with lightness.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is a side view,
Fig. 2 an end view, and
Fig. 3 a transverse section of a vehicle constructed according to this invention.
A is the vehicle body. B B are the two parts of the bottom, which are hinged
at C C to brackets C₁ and are provided with overhanging parts D D furnished
with weights D'D' for balancing them. EE are the triggers carried in
brackets EE and adapted to engage at D2 with the respective bottom parts D, D.
FF are the wheels upon which the vehicle is mounted. G is a handle for hoisting
the vehicle. G✶ is a chain which may be employed in lieu of the handle G (Fig. 1).
H H are the projecting skeleton frames bolted or rivetted to the vehicle body A.
To permit the opening and closing of the bottom of the vehicle with facility each
of the triggers E is provided with a cranked part E¹ to which a chain, or its
equivalent, may be attached for operating the trigger, and the parts D are loaded

page_text: as shewn or otherwise made sufficiently heavy to cause the respective half bottom
to close of itself after the contents of the body A have been discharged. Each
bottom part is provided with a recess at D' into which the corresponding trigger E
is adapted to enter so as to lock the bottom part when it closes. The triggers E E
are protected to a considerable extent from accidental blows when in use by the
projecting parts of the skeleton frames H.
mounted
upon
To permit of the vehicle body A and the parts secured thereto being readily
and lifted off the wheels F when in use, the axles F¹ of the wheels F
take into inverted U-shaped bearings F' as well understood these bearings being
rivetted to the vehicle body A and being open at their lower ends as shewn.
Where a handle G is provided for hoisting the vehicle, it may be provided with
the eye G' shewn in Fig. 3 for engaging with the hook of the hoisting chain. In
some cases however this eye may be dispensed with a sharp bend being formed
in the upper part of the handle to enable the hook of the hoisting chain to engage
securely. The handle is connected to the vehicle by studs G' passing through the
edge of the body A and through pieces A¹ secured thereto, and held in place by
split pins G.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The improved truck, bucket or vehicle for transporting substances of various
kinds, such as iron ore, coal, grain and the like, constructed with a body A, a
movable bottom consisting of hinged parts B adapted to close automatically and
having triggers E for automatically locking or securing the said parts of the
bottom when they close, substantially as described, with or without wheels.
W. Lloyd Wise,
Per C. E. B.,
G. H. COLLINS.
A. E. GARWOOD.
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.