IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CONVEYING PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Bleckly Dell of N° 26 Mark Lane in the city
of London for an Invention of" IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CONVEYING
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left, by the said William Bleckly. Dell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd August 1883.
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WILLIAM BLECKLY DELL of N° 26 Mark Lane in the City of London
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CONVEYING FLOUR OR OTHER PULVERULENT
OR GRANULAR MATERIALS,"
In the Specification to Letters Patent granted to me on the 31st July 1882
N° 3617, being a communication to me from G. T. Smith, I described an arrange-
ment for leading flour or other pulverulent or granular material from a shoot into
one or other of two worms or conveyors situated side by side, consisting of a series
of slides or drawers arranged side by side, and having inclined bottoms and
openings on one side thereof so that by sliding the drawer in in one position, it
was made to deliver the material into the one conveyor, and by sliding it in in
the other position, it delivered the material into the other conveyor.
According to my present invention, I employ in place of such sliding drawers, a
series of tumbling shoots of triangular shape and turning on pivots situated either
at the top or apex or in the middle of the bottom. Thus, by canting the shoot
over on its pivots into one position, the bottom is made to incline down from the
shoot through which the material descends, towards the one worm or conveyor, so
that the material is made to pass into this conveyor, while, by canting the shoot
over to the opposite position the material will be delivered into the other conveyor.
By this arrangement the construction of the apparatus is simplified and it is more
easily manipulated than with the previous arrangement.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Bleckly Dell in the Patent Office on the 21st February
1884.
WILLIAM BLECKLY DELL of N° 26 Mark Lane in the City of London
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CONVEYING FLOUR OR OTHER PULVERULENT
OR GRANULAR MATERIALS
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In the Specification to Letters Patent granted to me on the 31 July 1882
N° 3017, being a communication to me from G. T. Smith, I described an arrange-
ment for leading flour or other pulverulent or granular material from a shoot into
one or other of two worms or conveyors situated side by side, consisting of a series
of slides or drawers arranged side by side, and having inclined bottoms and
openings on one side thereof so that by sliding the drawer in in one position, it
was made to deliver the material into the one conveyor, and by sliding it in in the
other position, it delivered the material into the other convoyor.
According to my present invention, I employ in place of such sliding drawers, a
series of tumbling spouts of triangular shape and turning on pivots situated either
at the top or apex or in the middle of the bottom. Thus, by canting the spout
over on its pivots into one position, the bottom is made to incline down from the
shoot through which the material descends, towards the one worm or conveyor, so
that the material is made to pass into this conveyor, while, by canting the spout
over to the opposito position the material will be delivered into the other conveyor.
By this arrangement the construction of the apparatus is simplified and it is more
easily manipulated than with the previous arrangement.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing shews a section of a conveyor with my
above described invention applied thereto, Fig. 2 shews a perspective view of two
of the spouts, placed in the two opposite positions.
A Aare the two conveyor shafts, into the boxes of either of which the material
passing down the shoot B is delivered by means of the tumbling spouts C C'.
These are formed as shewn at Fig. 2, and being pivotted at D to the cross bars E,
they can be turned either into the position at C, so as to deliver the material into
the left hand worm, or into the position at C, so as to deliver into the right hand
worm. It will be evident that tho pivots of the spouts might be situated at other
points than at D.
Having thus described the nature of my invention and in what manner the samo
is to be performed, I claim :-
In apparatus for conveying flour or other pulverulent or granular materials
having two worms or conveyors, the use of tumbling spouts arranged and operating
substantially as herein described, so as in one position to deliver the material into
one worm or conveyor, and in the other position to deliver it into the other worm
or conveyor.
In Witness whereof I the said William Bleckly Dell have hereunto set my hand
and seal this twenty first day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty-four.