Improvements in or relating to Kickups or Tipplers for Tubs or Wagons.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 29.h Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 29th July, 1895-Accepted, 14th Sept., 185
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Kickups or Tipplers for Tubs or
Wagons.
I, SIMON TATE, of Trimdon Grange Colliery, in the County of Durham,
Mining Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has reference to improvements in or relating to kickups or
tipplers for tubs or wagons by which I propose to not only weigh the tub and
contents but also to register automatically by a counter device the number of
tubs or scores of tubs which pass through or over the tippler of whatever
description.
For this purpose the tippler may be constructed as part of or in combination with
the weighing machine or platform by which means the tare of the tub as well as the
contents thereof can be ascertained.
By way of illustration I may describe my invention with reference to that class
of tipplers known as automatic revolving tipplers to the bottoms of which vessels
are applied for containing liquid as described in my Patent Specification No. 31380
or machine-driven or other revolving tipplers of whatever description may be in like
manner caused to operate as hereinafter foreshadowed.
Thus to effect the automatic registration of numbers I may utilise any convenient
moving or revolving portion of the tippler or its connections such as the tippling
axle or gudgeon to which there may be applied any suitable form of gear such as a
disc crank lever or equivalent device acting in conjunction with a leyer or bar or
system of such which in turn may serve to actuate a further system of cranks and
levers in connection with the registering dial lever or gear. The dial may be
situated in any convenient position and constructed in any suitable known fashion
by gear wheels or otherwise to register the numbers of tubs or scores or both or
any like required information or if more convenient in certain cases a striking bar
lever or projection may be employed so that the movement of the tippler shall cause
the dial lever or levers or gear to be operated to the required extent by any suitably
timed arrangement of striking contacts and gear,
Dated this 27th day of October 1894.
A. CRAWHALL CHAPMAN,
3 St. Nicholas Buildings, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Patent Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Kickups or Tipplers for Tubs or
Wagons.
I, SIMON TATE, of Trimdon Grange Colliery in the County of Durham,
Mining 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 :-
This invention has reference to improvements in or relating to kickups or tipplers

page_text: for tubs or wagons and has for its object to provide means whereby I am able not
only to weigh the tub and contents but also to register automatically by a counter
device the number of tubs or scores of tubs which pass through or over the tippler
of whatever description.
For this purpose the tippler may be constructed as part of or in combination with
the weighing machine or platform by which means the tare of the tub as well as
the contents thereof can be ascertained.
In further description of my invention I will refer to that class of tipplers known
as automatic revolving tipplers to the bottoms of which vessels are applied for
containing liquid in such inanner that after the tub is emptied the weight of the
liquid causes the tippler to automatically right itself, but it is to be understood that
machine-driven or other revolving tipplers of whatever description may be in like
manner caused to operate as hereinafter shown.
According to my present improvements in order to effect the automatic registration
of numbers I may utilise any convenient moving or revolving portion of the tippler
or its connections such as the tippling axle or gudgeon to which there may be
applied any suitable form of gear such as a disc crank lever or equivalent device
acting in conjunction with a lever or bar or system of such which in turn may
serve to actuate a further system of cranks and levers in connection with the
registering dial lever or gear. The dial may be situated in any convenient
position and constructed in any suitable known fashion by gear wheels or
otherwise to register the numbers of tubs or scores or both or any like required
information or if more convenient in certain cases a striking bar lever or projection
may be employed so that the movement of the tippler shall cause the dial lever or
levers or gear to be operated to the required extent by any suitably timed
arrangement of striking contacts and gear.
I have illustrated two arrangements of my invention in the accompanying
drawings in which
Figures 1 and 2 are respectively side and end elevations of a gravity-operated
tippler constructed on known principles, showing one arrangement of my
invention;
Figure 3 is an end elevation of an alternative arrangement adapted to a power-
operated tippler.
Similar letters indicate similar parts in all the figures.
Referring to Figures 1 and 2, H is the tippler frame which is shown as suspended
from the platform of a weighing machine of any suitable type (not shown in the
drawings) by the bolts B; or the weighing machine and tippler may be arranged
and combined to act in unison in any convenient and known manner. C is the
counter which is graduated as desired and constructed as usual and mounted upon
any convenient part of the frame H. The counting mechanism is actuated from
the revoluble axle A of the tippler by means of a crank such as D suitably secured
and having connected to it by eyes formed on its side or otherwise one end of a
rod E. The other end of E is pinned to one arm of a bell-crank F centred at G
on the side of the tippler frame H and to the other arm one end of rod I is
attached the other end being pinned to the lever J which operates the counting
gear.
Thus on every revolution of the axle A the connecting rods are operated and
the action automatically recorded on the counter C.
Instead of the arrangement hereinbefore described the parts may be arranged
and the counter operated as shown in Figure 3. In a suitable position on the side
of the revolving tippler is secured a projecting lever or finger K and the counter C
is arranged upon a post M erected upon one side of the fixed frame H and its
counting mechanism is connected through the pivoted rods J and I to one end 7 of
a lever L centred upon the post M at m and having its other end projecting
inwardly for a sufficient distance and in such position as to lie in the path of travel
of the said finger K of the tippler when saine is revolved. By this arrangement
at each and every revolution of the tippler the finger K striking the arm of L

page_text: serves to oscillate same and through the connections 1, I and J causes the counter C
to record the action.
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 :-
1. The adaptation to and use with a tippler or kickup for tubs or wagons such as
is berein referred to and having a weighing machine in connection therewith of a
mechanical counting and recording appliance connected to or actuated by a moving
part of the tippler in such inanner that each and every revolution of the apparatus
is automatically registered and recorded substantially as above set forth.
2. The arrangements of mechanical recorder and gear in combination with the
tippler or kickup substantially as shown respectively in Figures 1 and 2 and in
Figure 3 and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 26th day of July 1895
A. CRAWHALL CHAPMAN,
3 St. Nicholas Buildings, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Patent Agent.