Improvements in Road Mud or Refuse Elevators, specially applicable for use on Scavengering Carts
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 12th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Road Mud or Refuse Elevators, specially applicable
for use on Scavengering Carts."
I, JOHN HODGES CHATTLE of 105, High Street Sydenham Printer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to dispense with certain manual labor in shovelling
mud and street refuse into carts as at present. With this purpose in view I
construct a gutter or trough of any depth and width but preferably the width of
the cart and on one or more parts or sections. When in position one end is hooked
on to a rod affixed to the top edge of the back of the cart, the lower end is curved
and hollowed in any part to contain the refuse and terminating in a lip resting
evenly on the ground. A chain or band connects the lip end of the gutter or
trough with the aforesaid rod or with the cart itself for the purpose of being
pulled over by means of a handle or wheel either of which may be conveniently
fixed to the cart for this purpose.
The action is as follows. The mud is swept into the lower end and when the
hollow is full it can be raised by means of the chain to any height necessary to
tilt the contents into the cart. Releasing the chain lowers it into position again.
The apparatus can be also used for other purposes than for refuse and for other
carts than scavengers.
Dated this 26th day of March 1892.
GRAHAM & GRAHAM,
Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Road Mud or Refuse Elevators, specially applicable
for use on Scavengering Carts.
I, JOHN HODGES CHATTLE, of 105, High Street Sydenham, London S.E.
Printer, 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 :-
My invention consists of a trough or gutter of any depth and width but
preferably less than the width of the cart, and in one or more parts or sections.
When in position one end is hooked on, or otherwise affixed to, the top edge of
the back of the cart, the lower end is curved and hollowed in any part to contain the
refuse, and terminating in a lip resting evenly on the ground, and hinged to
the base of the trough. A chain or band connects the lower end of the gutter or
trough with the aforesaid back of the cart or with the cart itself for the purpose
of being pulled over by means of a handle or wheel, either of which may be
conveniently fixed to the cart for this purpose.
The action is as follows:-The slush is swept into the lower end of the trough,
and when this is full it can be raised by means of the chain or the like to any
desired height necessary to tilt the contents into the cart or wagon.
In order that my invention and the manner of its operation may be fully under-
stood, I have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings, in which
Figs. 1, 2 and 3, are, side elevation, plan and back elevation respectively of an
ordinary slush or scavengers cart, to which has been connected the elevator
forming the subject of my invention.
1 carry my invention into effect by constructing of iron or other suitable metal,

page_text: a trough or basin A, to one end of which is connected or formed integrally
therewith, a gutter or shoot B, both of which may be of corresponding width, and
the same as, or less than the width of the cart or wagon to which it is to be
connected, or the trough A may be, and preferably would be, wider than B, and,
relatively to the cart or wagon, of the size shewn in the drawings.
The upper end of B may be hooked, hinged or otherwise pivotally connected to
the top edge of the tail board of the slush cart or wagon C, or if a supplementary
tail board be used to increase the holding capacity of C, to the upper edge of this,
or where means are provided for discharging the contents of the cart or wagon,
other than that of lowering the tail board, or where the back of the vehicle is a
fixture, B would in like manner be connected to the upper edge of said fixed back.
To the opposite end of A is hooked, hinged or otherwise pivotally connected, a
lip or flap D, which may be a perfectly flat surface as shewn, or provided with
upturned sides if desired, and this when A is resting upon the ground forms a
passage or path over which the slush or the like may be swept into A, until filled
or partly filled therewith.
A chain, rope or band D' may be used for raising A and B when A. is filled as
stated, and one end of this may be attached to the side or other part of C as in
Figs. 1 and 2, while the opposite end would be connected to a reel or pulley E,
fixed upon one end of a rod F, mounted upon A, the opposite end of F being
provided with a handle G for rotating the same, as in Fig. 2, in which case A
and B would be raised by the winding of D' upon E until in the position shewn by
the dotted outline thereof in Fig. 1, when the contents of A would pass through B,
and be deposited in C. The reverse motion of G would pay out D' until A was
again deposited upon the ground to be refilled.
Or one end of D' may be connected to the centre of a cross rod or roller H,
mounted upon the back end or other part of C, and provided with a like handle G
for rotating the same, in which ease the opposite end of D' would be connected by
means of a hook or its equivalent to the centre of the free end of A as shewn at
Fig. 3, which would be raised and lowered in a like manner by the rotation of H
by G.
In either or both these methods of raising the trough a suitable ratchet
and pawl would be provided for arresting and holding A at any degree of elevation
required, such for instance as when C is moving from place to place.
The apparatus can be also used for other purposes than the collection of slush
or other refuse and in connection with carts or wagons other than those employed
by scavengers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is.
The construction and use of an improved elevator for the collection of slush and
other liquid or semi liquid refuse, and for other purposes, consisting of a trough A,
shoot B, and lip D, the whole raised and lowered by the means of a chain or its
equivalent D', operated either as at Fig. 2 or Fig. 3, in combination with a slush
or other cart or wagon, connected thereto and operating therewith substantially as
herein described and shewn by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 10th day of December 1892.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
4, Moorfields, Fore Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.