IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING, LOWERING, AND OTHERWISE MOVING OR DISPOSING CASKS AND OTHER BODIES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Thomas Marzetti and John Watson, of Vine
Street, Minories, E.C., for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING, LOWERING, AND OTHERWISE MOVING OR DISPOSING
CASKS AND OTHER BODIES."
Sealed the 15th August 1862, and dated the 19th February 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Thomas Marzetti
and John Watson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 19th February 1862.
We, CHARLES THOMAS MARZETTI and JOHN WATSON, of Vine Street,
Minories, E.C., do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING, LOWERING, AND
OTHERWISE MOVING OR DISPOSING CASES AND OTHER BODIES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in employing a tangent wheel and screw or worm
and worm wheel movement in combination with a winding barrel or shaft,
upon which is wound the chain or rope, to the one end of which the cask or other
body or the object to be raised is attached by a sling and hook or other means,
so that instead of employing "a pair of blocks and fall," by which much head
room is lost and several men required for raising and adjusting (more especially
in the raising and storing of casks and other such vessels upon the top &

page_text: stillions or scantling in a vault or storehouse, or in the hold or the under side
of the decks of a ship, and in such like situations,) the employment of the
apparatus according to this Invention effects considerable economy both of
labour and space.
In applying this Invention in vaults or warehouses each range or row of
stillions or scantlings is commanded by a length of winding barrel or shaft
supported in bearings close to the roof or ceiling upon which the chain is
wound, and the cask or other object or articlo slung to the end of the winding
chain or rope may be raised or otherwise moved upon motion being commu-
nicated to the apparatus. When the roofing or ceiling is arched, the winding
barrel or shaft may be supported in bearings connected or fixed to an iron
frame or girder formed to the curve of the roof or ceiling, and such arched
piece or spandril may be of either wrought or cast iron, and be fixed trans-
versely to the length of the run, and in such position as to enable the cask or
other body or object or article to be properly slung and placed; the worm
wheel or tangent wheel is fitted either to one end or to both ends of the winding
barrel or shaft, and the worm or screw is made to take into it either horizon-
tally or vertically or at any intermediate angle; thus the weight whilst being
raised or lowered cannot run down, but may be left safely at any part of the
height to which it has been raised or lowered.
When this apparatus is applied in a long range of vaults or rows of stillions
or scantlings for supporting spirit, wine, or beer casks, or other closed vessels,
as between ranges of columns or longitudinal division walls the winding barrel
or shaft (which may contain several independent lengths of chain or rope in
accordance with the numbers of tiers or rows of barrels) may, instead of being
supported in bearings fixed to the columns, to the side walls, to the roof, or to
a spandril, or bearer, be supported in bearings within a carriage or frame
having bearing and guiding wheels for the purpose of enabling the carriage
and winding apparatus to be readily removed from one part of..the length of a
row to another, suitable guide rails being fixed or suspended for that purpose.
Thus, after stacking one tier consisting of several casks in height, the carriage
is moved into such a position as to enable, another stack to be raised, and so
on. In raising or lowering casks the chain or rope is wound on to or unwound
from the horizontal barrel or shaft, which is actuated or turned by means of a
screw or worm working tangentially into a wheel, so that whether or not there
be a ratchet wheel and pawl connected with, the winding handle or shaft, the
weight may be safely left suspended in any position.
This apparatus may be fitted on board of ship between the beams or under

page_text: the ceiling formed by the under side of the deck, so that the stowage may be
effected close up to the ceiling or under side.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Thomas Marzetti and John Watson in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 19th August 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHARLES
THOMAS MARZETTI and JOHN WATSON, of Vine Street, Minories, E.C., send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Charles Thomas Marzetti and John Watson, Her special licence that
we, the said Charles Thomas Marzetti and John Watson, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Charles Thomas
Marzetti and John Watson, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING, LOWERING, AND OTHERWISE
MOVING OR DISPOSING CASKS AND OTHER BODIES," upon the condition, amongst
others, that we, the said Charles Thomas Marzetti and John Watson, our
executors or administrators by an instrument in writing under our, or one of
our, or their, or one of 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 NOW YE, that we, the said Charles Thomas Marzetti and John
Watson, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement and accompanying Sheet of Drawings:-
This Invention consists in employing a tangent wheel and screw or worm
and worm wheel movement in combination with a winding barrel or shaft,

page_text: upon which is wound the chain or rope, to the one end of which the cask or
other body, or the object to be raised is attached by a sling and hook or other
means, so that instead of employing a pair of "blocks and fall," by which
much head room is lost, and several men required for raising and adjusting
(more especially in the raising and storing of casks and other such vessels
upon the top stillions or scantlings in a vault or storehouse, or in the hold,
or the under side of the decks of a ship, and in such like situations,) the
employment of the apparatus according to this Invention effects considerable
economy both of labor and space.
In applying this Invention in vaults or warehouses, each range or row of
stillions or scantlings is commanded by a length of winding barrel or shaft
supported in bearings close to the roof or ceiling upon which the chain is
wound, and the cask or other object or article slung to the end of the winding
chain or rope, may be raised or otherwise moved, upon motion being com-
municated to the apparatus. When the roofing or ceiling is arched the winding
barrel or shaft may be supported in bearings connected or fixed to an iron frame
or girder formed to the curve of the roof or ceiling, and such arched piece or
spandril may be of either wrought or cast iron, and fixed transversly to the length
of the run, and in such position as to enable the cask, or other body, or other
object, or article to be properly slung and placed, the worm wheel or tangent
wheel is fitted either to one end or to both ends of the winding barrel or
shaft, and the worm or screw is made to take into it either horizontally or
vertically, or at any intermediate angle, thus, the weight whilst being raised
or lowered cannot run down, but may be left safely at any part of the height
to which it has been raised or lowered. When this apparatus is applied in
a long range of vaults, or rows of stillions, or scantlings for supporting spirit,
wine, or beer casks, or other closed vessels, as between ranges of columns,
or longitudinal division walls, the winding barrel or shaft (which may contain
several independent lengths of chain or rope, in accordance with the numbers
of tiers, or rows of barrels,) may instead of being supported in bearings fixed
to the columns, to the side walls, to the roof, or to a spandril, or bearer,
be supported in bearings within a carriage or frame, having bearing and
guiding wheels for the purpose of enabling the carriage and winding apparatus
to be readily removed from one part of the length of a row to another, suitable
guide rails being fixed or suspended for that purpose. Thus after stacking
one tier consisting of several casks in height, the carriage is moved into such
a position as to enable another stack to be raised, and so on.
In raising or lowering casks the chain or rope is wound on to or unwound
from the horizontal barrel or shaft, which is actuated or turned by means of

page_text: a screw or worm working tangentially into a wheel, so that whether or not
there be a ratchet wheel, and paul connected with the winding handle or
shaft, the weight may be safely left suspended in any position. This apparatus
may be fitted on board ship between the beams, or under the ceiling formed
by the under side of the deck, so that the stowage may be effected close up to
the ceiling or under side.
In the accompanying Sheet of Drawings we have illustrated one of the
modes or methods in which we apply our Invention, or put the same into
practice.
Figure 1 represents a transverse sectional elevation of a storehouse or
warehouse with arched ceilings, and provided with the arrangement or
disposition of apparatus herein-before described. In the upper part of this
Figure the several parts of which the apparatus consists are shown more in
detail whilst in the lower part of the Figure the apparatus is shown in outline.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal elevation in section taken on the line A, B, Figure
1, and exhibits the arrangement of stillions with the cross passages. In the
upper floor or series of vaults, the apparatus according to our present Invention
is shown in the act of raising a cask, whilst in the lower floor or series of
vaults, (in the same Figure,) the travelling apparatus with its arched frame
or girder is shown in section, and the winding handle and gearing is applied
on one side of the apparatus. Figure 3 is a plan view of the apparatus detached
and shown in the act of lifting a cask, the worm and wheel with the winding
handle being within the line of rails between which the traveller moves back
and forth. The traveller is framed together with arched framing or girders,"
the roller upon which the chain is wound revolving in suitable bearings at
each end.
Thus in Figure 1 in the accompanying Drawing the machinery or apparatus
is fixed or secured under an arched roof, and secured thereto, and is intended
to raise one row or range of casks only, and the position of the winding chains
or ropes may be varied so as to command different positions in the length of
the winding barrel, whilst in Figure 2 the travelling apparatus is shown
capable of being shifted or moved along the length of vaults or tiers or ranges
of stillions, or when such apparatus is to be employed for other purposes than
for storing casks the rails are laid along the line of the warehouse or building.
Instead however of the travelling apparatus, and its barrel being above the
line of the rails, the carraige may be hung or suspended below, so that further
vertical space or height may be saved in situations where this arrangement
can be adapted.

page_text: What we claim is the combination of the worm and wheel movement with
the horizontal barrel and chains or ropes in the manner and for the purposes
herein-before described, and as illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Watson, on behalf of myself
and the said Charles Thomas Marzetti, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Nineteenth day of August, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-two
Witness,
JAMES STEVENSON,
19, Salisbury Street,
Adelphi, W.C.
(L.S.) JOHN WATSON.