IMPROVEMENTS IN FLOATING VESSELS AND APPARATUS USED FOR UNLOADING VESSELS CONTAINING COALS, CORN, OR GRAIN
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Cory, of the Coal Exchange, in the City of
London, and John Henry Adams, C.E., of Campbell Road, Bow Road,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
FLOATING VESSELS AND APPARATUS USED FOR UNLOADING VESSELS CONTAINING
COALS, CORN, OR GRAIN."
Sealed the 8th December 1865, and dated.the 7th September 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Cory and John
Henry Adams at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 7th September 1865.
We, WILLIAM CORY, of the Coal Exchange, in the City of London, and
JOHN HENRY ADAMS, C.E., of Campbell Road, Bow Road, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
IN FLOATING VESSELS AND APPARATUS USED FOR UNLOADING VESSELS
CONTAINING COALS, CORN, OR GRAIN," to be as follows:
I
This Invention has for its object improvements in the combined arrange-
ment of the vessel, machinery, and apparatus described in the Specification of
Letters Patent 'granted to William Cory, junior, dated the 18th day of
September, 1861, No. 2325, by which such vessels and machinery are.
rendered more useful in the unloading of vessels containing coals, corn, or
grain.

page_text: According to the present Invention a vessel or floating platform such as is
described in the said Specification is used, but the upper platform for the
middle or central cranes is dispensed with, and in place of using weighing
cranes weigh-bridges are applied to the deck of the vessel near the discharging
shoots at each end of the deck. In the present arrangement or combination,
also as in that formerly described, three cranes, and, by preference, hydraulic
cranes, are employed on each side of the floating vessel or floating platform,
and when unloading coals, corn, or grain, they all deliver into trucks provided
with wheels suitable for running on parallel rails or trans, such delivery in
the case of coals being, when desired, by each crane on to a screen arranged
to separate the larger from the smaller coals, and to deliver the larger coals
into one truck whilst-the-smaller. coals are delivered into another truck, and
so that the truck containing the small coal and that containing the large coal
may be discharged at different discharging shoots.
The combined arrangement may be somewhat varied, but the one preferred
is as follows:: On the deck of the vessel near each crane are fixed four pairs
of parallel rails, and each pair at the ends is provided with curved guides
in order that when a truck is moved towards the ends of a pair of rails the
wheels of the truck may be guided correctly on to the rails by such guides.
The spaces between the ends of the sets of rails or trams of the cranes on
each side of the deck are covered with flat sheets of iron so that a truck may
be run thereon from the rails of one crane to the rails of another crane;
similar flat sheets are also fixed between the ends of the pairs of rails leading
to the weigh-bridges and the delivery shoots situated at the ends of the deck
where the barges or vessels receive the coals, as described in the Specification
of the said former Letters Patent. In some cases two pairs of parallel rails
are applied at each or at one side of the deck for the three cranes on one side,
such two pairs of rails having crossings so as to admit of the trucks on one
pair of rails being run on to the other pair of rails; in such cases there are
flat sheets between the ends of such two pairs of rails and the pairs of rails to
the weigh-bridges and discharging shoots as before mentioned. The coals
are raised by the cranes in suitable buckets or vessels, and such is the case
when corn or grain loaded in bulk is raised, and ordinarily the corn or grain
will be discharged from such buckets or vessels down shoots (or, in the case
of coals, down screens) into trucks, which will then be moved to the weigh-
bridges and discharging shoots. situated near the ends of the deck of the
floating vessel.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION. in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,.filed
by the said. William Cory and John Henry Adams. in. the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 7th March 1866.
TO ALL. TO WHOM THESE. PRESENTS. SHALL COME, we; WILLIAM
CORY, of the Coal. Exchange, in. the City of London, and JOHN HENRY ADAMS,
C.E., of Campbell. Road,, Bow Road, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen. Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of September,.in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said William Cory, and John Henry Adams,. Her special licence that
we, the
said.William Cory and John Henry Adams, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such.others as we, the said William Cory and John Henry Adams,
our executors, administrators, and. assigns, should at any time agree with, and.
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN FLOATING
VESSELS AND APPARATUS USED FOR UNLOADING VESSELS CONTAINING COALS, CORN, OR
GRAIN, upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said William
Cory and John. Henry Adams, our executors or administrators, by an instru--
ment in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and
seal, of one of us or them, 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 John Henry Adams, on behalf of
myself and the said William Cory, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof,
that is to say:
This Invention has for its object improvements in the combined arrange;
ment of the vessel, machinery, and apparatus described in the Specification of
Letters Patent granted to William Cory, junior, dated the 18th day of
September 1861 (No. 2325), by which such vessels and machinery are

page_text: rendered more useful in the unloading of vessels containing coals, corn, or
grain.
According to the present Invention a vessel or floating platform such as is.
described in the said Specification is: used, but the upper platform for the
middle or central cranes is dispensed with, and in place of using weighing
cranes weigh-bridges are applied to the deck of the vessel near the dis-
charging shoots at each end of the deck. In the present arrangement or
combination also, as in that formerly described; three-cranes-(and-by-pre--
ference bydraulic cranes) are employed on each side of the floating vessel or
floating platform, and when unloading coals, corn, or grain, they all deliver
into trucks provided with wheels suitable for running on parallel rails or
trams, such delivery in the use of coals being, when desired, by each crane on
to a screen arranged to separate the larger from the smaller coals, and to
deliver the larger coals into one truck whilst the smaller coals are delivered
into another truck, and so that the truck containing the small coal and that
containing the large coal may be discharged at different discharging shoots.
The combined arrangement may be somewhat varied, but the one preferred
is as follows:-On the deck of the vessel near each crane are fixed four pairs
of parallel rails, and each pair at the ends is provided with curved guides in
order that when a truck is moved towards the ends of a pair of rails the
wheels, of the truck may be guided correctly on to the rails by such guides..
The spaces between the ends of the sets of rails or trams of the cranes on
each side of the deck are covered with flat sheets of iron, so that a truck may
be run thereon from the rails of one érane to the rails of another crane;
similar flat sheets are also fixed between the ends of the pairs of rails leading
to the weigh-bridges and the delivery shoots situated at the ends of the deck
where the barges or vessels receive the coals as described in the Specification
of the said former Letters Patent. In some cases two pairs of parallel rails
are applied at each or at one side of the deck for the three cranes on one side,
such two pairs of rails having points and crossings so as to admit of the trucks
on one pair of rails being run on to the other pair of rails; in such cases
there are flat sheets-between-the-ends-of-such-two-pairs of rails and the pairs
of rails to the weigh-bridges and discharging shoots as before mentioned.
The coals are raised by the cranes in suitable buckets or vessels, and such is
the case when corn or grain loaded in bulk is raised, and ordinarily the corn
or grain will be discharged from such buckets or vessels down shoots (or, in
the case of coals, down screens) into trucks, which will then be moved to
the weigh-bridges and discharging shoots situated near the ends of the deck
of the floating vessel.

page_text: Having thus stated the nature of our said Invention we will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a plan, and Figure 2 shows a side elevation of one half of
a floating vessel, such as is above described; Figure 3 shews a transverse
section of the vessel. In each of these Figures the same letters of reference
are used to, indicate the same parts.
A, A, are the cranes, three on each side of the deck of the floating vessel.
At each crane a screen is employed to separate, when desired, the larger from
the smaller coals and to deliver them into different trucks. On one side of
the deck each crane has fixed near it four pairs of rails for the trucks, and
each pair of rails at its ends is formed with curves which guide the wheels of
the trucks correctly on to the rails. The cranes on the other side of the
deck have two pairs of rails, but they are formed with points and crossings so
that the trucks can freely pass from one pair to the other. Between the ends
of the sets of rails there are flat plates or sheets of iron on which the flanges
of the wheels may run freely, and by reason of the curved ends to the pairs of
rails a truck may be run off the flat plates or sheets on to any of the pairs of
rails on the other side of the plates or sheets, the wheels when they come
against the ends of the rails being thereby correctly guided on to the pair of
rails on which it is desired the truck shall next pass over. On each of the
pairs of rails in communicating with the shoots at the ends of the deck is a
weigh-bridge of the ordinary construction in order that the trucks with their
contents may be weighed and their weights recorded. When raising corn
brought in bulk the screens will not be necessary, and only ordinary shoots
will be required.
What we claim is, the combined arrangement herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Henry Adams, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord
⚫ One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
JOHN H. ADAMS. (L.S.)