Improvements in Apparatus for Charging Inclined Gas Retorts.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 17th Dec., 1889-Accepted. 18th Jan.. 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Charging Inclined Gas Retorts.
We, FRANK MORRIS of the Brentford Gas Works, Civil Engineer, and LUDOVIC
VAN VESTRANT of the Brentford Gas Works, Southall Assistant to the said Frank
Morris, both in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this inven
tion to be as follows:-
In setting inclined gas retorts they present their upper months at different heights,
and in different vertical rows. This invention relates to means of charging retorts so
set by the use of a shoot which can be adjusted in length and in position so as to
conduct the coal from a supply above to the mouth of any one of the group of retorts.
For this purpose, at a convenient height above the highest tier of retort mouths we
provide a frame or carriage that can be moved on rollers horizontally along suitable
rails, and from this carriage we suspend a tubular shoot which is made in several
sections, these sections fitted to slide freely along one another like the tubes of a
telescope. We balance each moveable section by counterweights attached to chains
passing over pullies mounted on the next higher section. When it is desired to charge
any one of the retorts, its mouth is opened, the carriage is run along the rails until
the shoot comes vertically over the retort mouth, and its sections are slid telescopically
until the lowest one reaches the mouth, whereupon coals can be delivered into the
upper end of the shoot so as to descend it into the retort.
Dated this 18th day of October 1880
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Charging Inclined Gas Retorts.
We, FRANK MORRIS of the Brentford Gas Works, Civil Engineer, and LUDOVIC
VAN VESTRANT, of the Brentford Gas Works, Southall, Assistant to the said Frank
Morris, both in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the saine is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
In setting inclined gas retorts they present their upper mouths at different heights
and in different vertical rows. Our invention relates to means of charging retorts so
set by the use of a shoot which can be adjusted in length and in position so as to
conduct the coal from a supply above to the mouth of any one of the group of retorts.
For this purpose at a convenient height above the highest tier of retort mouths we
provide a frame or carriage that can be moved on rollers horizontally along suitable
rails and from this carriage we suspend a tubular shoot which is made in several
sections fitted to slide freely along one another like the tubes of a telescope. We
balance each moveable section by counterweights attached to chains passing over pullies
mounted on the next higher section.
When it is desired to charge any one of the retorts, its mouth is opened, the
carriage is run along the rails until the shoot comes vertically over the retort mouth,
and its sections are slid telescopically until the lowest one reaches the mouth, where-
upon coals can be delivered into the upper end of the shoot so as to descend it into
the retort.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a part vertical section showing portions
of two inclined retorts to the charging of which a shoot according to this invention
is applied.

page_text: The shoot as shewn consists of a tube made in three lengths or sections A' A² A³ of
which A² can slide freely along A' and A³ can slide freely along A². The bighest
length A is carried by a carriage B having rollers b which run along rails C.
The lowest length A³ is connected to a counterweight E by three or more chains D
passing over pullies mounted at the upper end of the length A³, and the length A' is
similarly connected to a counterweight F by three or more chains G passing over
pullies mounted at the upper end of A³, or on the carriage B.
The counterweights E and F may be made, as shewn, in the form of rings.
To the lowest section A³ is hinged a curved shoot A' which can be adjusted so as to
direct the coals as desired into the mouth of any retort.
In Fig. 1 the shoot is shewn in position for charging the uppermost H of a
row of inclined retorts; the dotted lines A' indicate the shoot extended to charge
a lower retort K.
The retorts being arranged in several vertical rows, the shoot can be moved by
running the carriage B along the rails so as to come immediately above a retort in
any vertical row and it can be extended telescopically to reach the mouth of the retort.
Although we have shewn the shoot as made in three lengths or sections, it might
obviously be made in two lengths or in a number of lengths greater than three.
In cases where the rails for the carriage B cannot be conveniently placed above, the
shoot may be suspended from a frame, indicated by the dotted lines X Fig. 1, which
frame can be run along the ground or on rails carrying the shoot with it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
Apparatus for charging inclined retorts consisting of a telescopically extensible
tubular shoot suspended from a laterally moveable carriage or frame, substantially as
and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 16th day of December 1889.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.