Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 20th June, 1887
Complete Left, 2nd Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted; 6th Apr., 1888
Langmoon
do hereby declare my invention to be as follows:-
The object of the said invention is to provide an elevator chain which by means of
suitable links is capable of carrying up articles such as bricks packages and the like
without special attachment links being required and also if desired to allow of fluid,
or semi-fluid materials being raised by means of buckets which buckets can be
removed from the chain when they arrive at the top of the elevator and emptied of
their contents instead of the buckets emptying themselves in the ordinary way.
This I propose to effect as follows: From a straight bar of iron, steel or other
suitable material and of any desired section, I cut off a sufficient length to make one
link this 1 bend into a double or channel shape the arms of the flattened U thus
formed being longer than the base. I then at any desired point bend part of the
arms till they form an open hook standing at an angle of about 45° to the plane of
the U.
The goods to be elevated rest on these bent ends of the arms and are carried up by
them. The chain simply hooks one link into the other so that no welding or rivetting
is required.
For carrying buckets and the like i bend the extreme ends of the hooks into the
form of an S the bandle or bail of the bucket being placed in the outer curve while
ascending and in the inner curve during its descent. For carrying bulky articles
where it is not desirable to have a projection on every link the intermediate ones may
be bent over parallel to the plane of the U instead of at an angle with it. This chain
will run on polygonal drums or sprocket wheels in the ordinary way.
Dated this 20th day of June 1887.
BROWNE & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Detachable Elevator Chain.
1 OTTO WILHELM GAUHE of Oberlahnstein in the Empire of 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 :—
The object of this invention is to provide an elevator chain which by means of
suitable links is capable of carrying up articles such as bricks packages and the like
without special attachment links being required and also if desired to allow of fluid
or semi-fluid materials being raised by means of buckets which buckets can be removed
from the chain when they arrive at the top of the elevator and emptied of their
contents instead of the buckets discharging themselves in the usual way.
These objects I attain by means of the chain hereafter described and shewn by the
accompanying sheet of drawings in which Fig. 1 represents a side elevation of a
portion of the elevator chain and drum over which it runs and fig. 2 front elevation
of same.
The same letters denote the same parts in all the Figures.
The link a is bent so as to form a hook, bricks e packages and the like resting on
the outer portion b.
For carrying buckets and skips the link a has at its outer ends or one of them an
Sshaped hook e. f. g formed by bending the end or ends of the said link. The handle
or bail of the ascending bucket or skip rests in the curved portion f and the descending
one in the curved portion g.
The links are simply hooked one into the other and the elevator chain runs on
polygonal drums d or sprocket wheels one of the drums, preferably the one at the top
being the driver.
When carrying bulky articles where it is not desirable to have a projection on
every link the intermediate ones may be bent over parallel to the other portion of the
link as at h.
This chain avoids the use of welds or rivets.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1st. In an elevator chain the link a b the portion b serving to carry bricks packages
and like articles on substantially as described.
2nd. In an elevator chain the link a having its outer extremity or extremities bent
into a double or S hook gfe substantially as described.
3rd. The improved elevator chain substantially as described with reference to
the accompanying sheet of drawings and operating as and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 2nd day of March 1888.
BROWNE & Co.,
Agents for Applicant.