An Improved Transporting or Conveying Apparatus, Applicable for Use in Combination with Excavators, Dredgers, Grain Elevators or the like, for Transporting or Conveying away the Materials Delivered therefrom, or for analogous Purposes.
Year: 1884

page_text: An Improved Transporting or Conveying Apparatus, Applicable
for Use in Combination with Excavators, Dredgers, Grain
Elevators, or the like, for Transporting or Conveying
away the Materials Delivered therefrom, or for analogous
Purposes.
I JOHN HENRY JOHNSON of 47 Lincolns Inn Fields in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
TRANSPORTING OR CONVEYING APPARATUS APPLICABLE FOR USE IN COMBINATION
WITH EXCAVATORS DREDGERS GRAIN ELEVATORS OR THE LIKE FOR TRANSPORTING
OR CONVEYING AWAY THE MATERIALS DELIVERED THEREFROM OR FOR ANALOGOUS
PURPOSES a communication to me from abroad by Michel Marolle of Paris in the
Republic of France to be as follows:-
»
This Invention has for its object to provide an apparatus especially suited for
use in combination with excavators dredgers grain elevators or the like for
transporting or conveying materials delivered by the said machines and discharging
the said materials at any desired spot but apparatus constructed according to the
said Invention is applicable generally for use in operations involving the removal
or transference of large quantities of loose materials.
An apparatus constructed according to this Invention consists as follows:-
A trussed beam, girder or other suitable frame is provided supported at suitable
intervals if required by intermediate supports and adjustable vertically and
horizontally so that the hereinafter described apron web or carrier supported
thereby is capable of delivering the materials in any desired direction. The said
apron web or carrier is an endless travelling apron web or carrier which is passed
round drums at each extremity of the frame and is supported at suitable intervals
by rollers. Motion is imparted to this apron web or carrier by a steam or other
motor engine connected with one of the aforesaid drums. The frame of the
apparatus is pivoted on a vertical axis and is carried by a truck or trucks travelling
on one or more lines of rails or by a barge which may also carry the boiler and

page_text: engine employed to give motion to the apparatus-When carried on a truck or
trucks the apparatus may be moved forwards when required by means of gearing
connected with the wheels of the truck and operated by hand or otherwise.
The travelling apron web or carrier herein before referred to is composed of sheet
steel or copper or other equivalent material possessing sufficient flexibility to enable
it to pass readily round the drums at the extremities of the apparatus and being at
the same time sufficiently strong to enable it to carry cups, corrugated plates, wire
cloth, or other fabric or materials or devices to hold the materials which are to be
transported thereby such for example as cloth made of hair or of Aloe Esparto or
other fibre, which may be rendered impermeable, for example by a treatment with
oxide of copper or by Guttapercha, India Rubber or caoutchouc. These cloths may
be supported by round or flat ropes and rest upon the endless apron web or carrier.
When corrugated plates or sheets are employed they are preferably secured to the
apron web or carrier by bolts or rivets-In cases where the apron web or carrier
has to work with the discharging end considerably elevated above the level of the
receiving end, the plates may be attached to the underside of the apron web or
carrier so that the materials rest in cups formed by the corrugations in the plates.
In order to prevent the materials from falling off the apron web or carrier
laterally a rim or raised edge of cotton hemp or other materials not liable to
contract to any objectionable extent when wetted is attached to the sides of the
apron web or carrier. The materials composing this raised edge may be covered
with coiled metal bands or wire to impart the requisite stiffness. When a cloth
apron is employed the edges may be turned up so as to enclose a filling of India
rubber or other substance which is thus protected from contact with the materials
on the apron
The drums at the extremities of the apparatus are preferably
mounted on adjustable bearings provided with springs in order to enable them to
accommodate themselves if required to possible expansions or contractions of the
endless apron or web or carrier.
The apparatus may be made in two or more parts or sections so as to be capable
of being lengthened or shortened as required in order to enable it to deposit the
materials at any convenient distance from the point where they are delivered upon
the endless apron web or carrier.

page_text: An Improved Transporting or Conveying Apparatus, Applicable
I for Use in Combination with Excavators, Dredgers, Grain
Elevators Or the like for Transnanting AM
I JOHN HENRY JOHNSON of 47 Lincolns Inn Fields in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
TRANSPORTING OR CONVEYING APPARATUS APPLICABLE FOR USE IN COMBINATION
WITH EXCAVATORS DREDGERS GRAIN ELEVATORS OR THE LIKE FOR TRANSPORTING
OR CONVEYING AWAY THE MATERIALS DELIVERED THEREFROM OR FOR ANALOGOUS
"
PURPOSES which Invention has been communicated to me from abroad by Michel
Marolle of Paris in the Republic of France and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This Invention has for its object to provide an apparatus especially suited for
use in combination with excavators dredgers grain elevators or the like for
transporting or conveying away materials delivered by the said machines and
discharging the said materials at any desired spot but apparatus constructed
according to the said Invention is applicable generally for use in operations
involving the removal or transference of large quantities of loose materials.
And in order that the said Invention may be fully understood I shall now
proceed to describe the same and for that purpose shall refer to the several figures
on the annexed sheet of drawings the same letters of reference indicating
corresponding parts in all the figures.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents an apparatus constructed
according to this Invention as employed in combination with a steam navvy or
excavator,
Figure 2 shows the apparatus combined with a dredger and figure 3 represents
the apparatus as employed in conjunction with a floating elevator.
In all these combinations trussed beams girders or frames A are employed being
supported by intermediate supports B and made adjustable vertically and
horizontally so that the hereinafter described endless apron web or carrier
supported thereby is capable of delivering the materials in any desired direction.-
The said endless apron web or carrier is indicated at C in the drawings and travels
round drums D E at the extremities of the frame A being supported at suitable
intervals by rollers C. Motion is imparted to this apron web or carrier by a
steam or other motor engine connected with one of the aforesaid drums, and the
frame A is capable of turning on a vertical axis so as to enable the materials
transported on the apron C to be deposited at the required spot.
In the arrangement illustrated in figure 1 the frame or girder A is supported
at B on a truck B¹ and is also connected to a truck F carrying the motor engine
and boiler. These trucks run on rails laid parallel with the rails on which the
excavator (indicated at X) travels and may be propelled by means of gearing
connected with the wheels of the trucks and worked by hand or otherwise.
In figure 2 the apparatus is represented in combination with a dredger Y the
frame A being supported at B by a barge B¹ and in figure 3 the frame is

page_text: similarly supported by a barge forming part of a grain elevator Z discharging
grain on to the apron C whereby the said grain is transferred to a truck at W.
The travelling apron web or carrier C is composed of sheet steel or copper or
other equivalent material possessing sufficient flexibility to enable it to pass readily
round the drums at the extremities of the apparatus and being at the same time
sufficiently strong to enable it to carry cups troughs corrugated plates wire cloth
or other fabric or materials or devices to hold the materials which are to bo
transported thereby such for example as cloth made of hair or of aloe esparto or
other fibre which may be rendered impermeable for example by treatment with
oxide of copper or by gutta percha india rubber or caoutchouc-These cloths may
be supported by round or flat ropes and rest upon the endless apron web or carrier―
When corrugated plates or sheets are employed they are preferably secured to the
apron web or carrier by bolts or rivets-In cases where the apron web or carrier
has to work with the discharging end considerably elevated above the level of the
receiving end the plates may be attached to the under side of the steel bands
forming the apron web or carrier so that the materials rest in cups or hollows
formed by the corrugations in the plates.
In order to prevent the materials from falling off the apron web or carrier
laterally a rim or raised edge of cotton hemp or other materials not liable to contract
to any objectionable extent when wetted is attached to the sides of the apron web
or carrier-The materials composing this raised edge may be covered with coiled
metal bands or wire to impart the requisite stiffness.
When a cloth apron is employed the edges may be turned up so as to enclose a
filling or stuffing of india rubber or other substance which is thus protected from
contact with the materials on the apron-The drums E are preferably mounted
on adjustable bearings provided with springs in order to enable them to accom-
modate themselves if required to possible expansions or contractions of the endless
apron web or carrier.
The frame A may be made telescopic or in two or more parts or sections so as to
be capable of being lengthened or shortened as required in order to enable it to
deposit the materials at any convenient distance from the point where they are
delivered upon the endless apron web or carrier and the details of the arrangement
and construction of the apparatus may evidently be varied according to circumstances
without affecting the spirit of the Invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1st The transporting or conveying apparatus provided with a flexible endless
apron, web or carrier of sheet steel or equivalent materials and a beam or frame
made in one or more sections and forming a way upon which the said endless apron
web or carrier travels substantially as herein before described.
2nd The combination of the transporting or conveying apparatus herein before
described and claimed and an elevator dredger or excavator substantially as
herein before described.
3rd The special arrangements and construction of the transporting or conveying
apparatus with endless apron web or carrier combined and operating substantially
as herein before severally described and illustrated in figures 12 and 3 of the
accompanying drawings.