provements in Mechanical Conveyors and Elevators.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Apr., 1899
Camalato Cannifination Loft 27th Lon 1000 Accented 17th Mar 1900
PROVISIONAL DIUITIATION
Improvements in Mechanical Conveyors and Elevators.
I, MATTHEW BROWN WILD, of 7, York Road, Erdington, near the City of
Birmingham, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to the construction and arrangement of machines or
mechanical appliances for use in conveying or elevating various materials, but
especially hot coke in gas-works, my object being to produce compact, strong,
and durable machines having the wearing parts away from the heat and dust,
and the water employed for slaking and washing the coke.
In the application of my invention to the construction of one type of a horizontal
coke conveyor I employ a trough or conduit made of cast iron sections with socket
like ends to engage the on with the other, which I bolt to cast iron brackets
fixed between a pair of rolled joists or girders. The buckets or scrapers by
which the coke is carried along such trough or conduit are shaped to suit the
interior of the trough into which they enter but do not touch the surface of the
being each suspended by an angle iron or other bracket or bridge piece
whose ends are connected with the endless chain which is driven in any convenient
manner. The ends of the said brackets or bridge pieces are also provided with
rail wheels which run respectively upon the upper and lower flanges of the joists
or girders or suitable brackets during the out and return movement of the
buckets or scrapers.
same,
On their return movement the buckets or scrapers are preferably arranged
The chain and
to pass clear under the trough and its supporting brackets.
the rail wheels move quite clear away from the trough or conduit in both direc-
tions of movement and their wearing surfaces are thus but little effected by the
heat and dust from the hot coke as it is carried along by the conveyor, or from
the water employed for slaking and washing.
I sometimes support the conveyors by suitably shaped pedestals or other
supports without the use of joists or girders such as herein before described, and
I make other modifications in the construction of horizontal conveyors and also
of vertical and incline conveyors or elevators, to meet varying services or
requirements.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and 25, Cross Street, Manchester,
Agents for Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Mechanical Conveyors and Elevators.
I, MATTHEW BROWN WILD, of 7, York Road, Erdington, near the City of
Birmingham, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to the construction and arrangement of machines or
mechanical appliances for use in conveying or elevating various materials, but
especially hot coke in gas-works, my object being to produce compact, strong,
and durable machines having the driving parts away from the heat and dust,
and from the water employed for slaking and washing the coke.
In the application of my invention to the construction of one type of a horizontal
coke conveyor I employ a trough or conduit made of cast iron seotions with socket
like ends to engage the one with the other, which I bolt to cast iron brackets
fixed between a pair of rolled joists or girders. The buckets or propelling plates
by which the coke is carried along such trough or conduit are shaped to suit the
interior of the trough into which they enter but do not touch the surface of the
same, being each suspended by an angle iron or other bracket or bridge piece
whose ends are connected with the endless chain which is driven in any convenient
manner. The ends of the said brackets or bridge pieces are also provided with
rail wheels which run respectively upon the upper and lower flanges of the joists
or girders during the out and return movement of the buckets or propelling
plates.
On their return movement the buckets or propelling plates are preferably
arranged to pass clear under the trough and its supporting brackets. The chain and
the rail wheels move quite clear away from the trough or conduit in both direc-
tions of movement and their wearing surfaces are thus but little effected by the
heat and dust from the hot coke as it is carried along by the conveyor, or by
the water employed for slaking and washing.
I sometimes support the conveyors by suitably shaped pedestals or other
supports without the use of joists or girders such as herein before described, and
I make other modifications in the construction of horizontal conveyors and also
of vertical and incline conveyors or elevators, to meet varying services
requirements.
On the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings.—
or
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 a sectional end elevation of a coke
conveyor constructed in accordance with my invention.
A pair of endless chains as A and A¹ are driven, in any convenient manner,
over a pair of drums arranged at opposite ends of the trough or conduit Bas
illustrated. To such chains are secured the ends of brackets or bridge pieces C
and to each of the said brackets or bridge pieces I bolt a propelling plate as D.
Upon the pins or bolts connecting the ends of the brackets or bridge pieces with
the respective conveyor chains, I mount rollers as E which run upon rails F
secured to the supporting pedestals G.
As the rollers travel along the upper pair of rails the propelling plates 1) are
driven through the trough or conduit B and thus convey the coke from the
receiving to the discharge end of such trough, whilst for the return of the
propelling plates the rollers are caused to travel along the lower pair of rails.
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. In mechanical conveyors and elevators, the arrangement of the driving

page_text: parts clear away from the trough or conduit through which the material is
conveyed or elevated, substantially as described.
2. The improved coke conveyor constructed and arranged substantially as and
for the purpose described and as illustrated.
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MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and 25, Cross Street, Manchester,
Agents for the Applicants.