IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OF AND APPARATUS FOR INDICATING OR REGISTERING GOODS RAISED OR LOWERED IN BREWERIES, GRANARIES, WARE- HOUSES, AND OTHER BUILDINGS
Year: 1870

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Louis Watson and Julius Hall
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 21th March 1870.
We, LOUIS WATSON and JULIUS HALL, both of Craven Street, Strand,
in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OF AND APPARATUS FOR INDICATING
OR REGISTERING GOODS RAISED OR LOWERED IN BREWERIES, GRANARIES, WARE-
HOUSES, AND OTHER BUILDINGS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to certain improvements in the means of and
apparatus for indicating or registering the number and quantity of goods
elevated or raised or lowered in breweries, granaries, or other buildings,
the object of the Invention being to afford a self-acting check or register
shewing at all times the number of sacks or bales raised or lowered to
any floor of a building, and thus avoiding the necessity of recording by
hand the number of such sacks, and preventing in consequence all
possibility of error in such record.
As an example of the application of our Invention to breweries where
sacks of malt are raised to a double-hinged platform, opening as the

page_text: sacks pass through them, we propose to fix a short vertical standard to
the frame of the platform close to the wall and through the standard to
form a bearing for a rocking lever set horizontally and having a move-
able or jointed projecting tooth on which the flap of the platform
operates when opened or raised, the other end of the lever is joined to
an upright rod passing on the inside or outside of the wall, from which
rod a second connecting horizontal lever is joined which acts on a pall
and ratchet wheel fixed or set in an indicating apparatus, so that cach
motion of the rod caused by the ascent of the trap floor causes one tooth
to move of the primary ratchet wheel. Now the upright rod is made in
two parts set in bearing sockets, the lower part having a certain degree
of play instead of being rigid with the upper rod, this is necessary to
prevent jar, shock, or strain by any undne motion of the flap or other
cause. Thus cach passage of a sack of goods through the trap is registered
by the pall action on the ratchet wheel as an unit to be increased
as hereafter described. The platform may be furnished with a curved
detent or lever near the hinge, so that when the flap is raised the lever
shall descend and act on a horizontal shaft passing through the wall and
turning down the vertical rod by an excentric or crank so as to operate the
pall action. So, also, any other equivalent mechanical means may be
employed and applied to the trap door, whereby the recording apparatus
shall be actuated by units. The ratchet wheel being set on a shaft
behind the frame of the indicator and being moved one tooth at a time,
the shaft or axis carries within the frame a wheel or disc having only
one projecting tooth, the face of the wheel having numbers engraved or
marked thereon; this wheel or disc at each revolution causes a second
wheel to turn one tooth to indicate tens, the second wheel has fixed
behind it a disc with one projecting tooth which acts like the first unit
wheel on a third toothed wheel of a similar number of teeth, in front of
which a dial is fixed with numbers to shew up to one thousand. The
wheelwork being concealed within frame or case in which apertures
are cut through which the numbers may be seen. In lowering goods
the indicating apparatus may be actuated by means of rocking levers or
other equivalents with which contact may be made during the descent
of the goods.