Improvements in Apparatus for Conveying Rolling Packages.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 11th June, 195-Accepted, 27th July, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Conveying Rolling Packages.
I, EDGAR FRIEDMAN of Dobbs Ferry, Westchester County, New York,
Inventor, do bereby 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 has particularly in view the provision of apparatus which will
enable barrels to be conveyed at the same time that they are rolled over in pitching
so that the two operations can be carried on at once and to this end, my invention
consists in certain apparatus comprising a track and means for propelling an
article along the same in such manner as to permit it to roll while forcing it
positively along.
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Referring to the accompanying drawings which form part of this
Specification
Figure is a side elevation of my improved conveyer part being in vertical
section.
Figure II is a plan view of the same.
Figures III and IV are end views taken respectively at the upper and lower
ends.
Figure V is a sectional detail view of the track and part of the conveyer.
The conveyer may be inclined as shown or horizontal and may be operated in
either direction. The frame of the conveyer is made up of iron tubing 1 having at
the higher part suitable braces 2 and supporting part way up a track 3 of angle
iron and at top the track of T-iron. The web of the T-iron is bolted to the
frame of the conveyer and the upper surface acts as a track for the small rollers
of the carrying chain. Guard rails 5 are provided formed of square iron or pipe
having perfectly rounded upper surfaces. Two endless chains 6 are carried by
sprocket wheels 7 on shafts 8, 9 at opposite ends of the conveyer frame and one
of the shafts 8 bas suitable means of driving; for example, a hand winch 10. The
other shaft is mounted in boxes 11 carried by screws 12 which pass through
suitable threaded sockets (not shown) journaled in the posts of the conveyer frame
at the lower end. To obtain sufficient rigidity, these posts may be filled.
Adjustment of these screws can be had by turning the screw threaded socket
pieces in their supporting collars 14, and the chains may thus be kept taut.
This adjustment is not illustrated in detail for the reason that it is quite common
and well-known.
At suitable distances apart are arranged cross bars or shafts 15 which are
connected to the chains in any preferred manner. The chains may, for example,
be connected to the shafts by being rigidly attached to clips 16 which run on
bearings 17 on the shafts 15. The spindles 18 of the shafts carry two freely
running rollers 19, 20. The latter acts as a support for the shaft and the carrying
chain from the tracks 3, 4. When a barrel is put in position upon the conveyer,
its ends rest upon the rails 5 and when the chains are driven by the hand winch 10
or otherwise, the barrel may be propelled along its track, being pushed by the
abutment rollers 19 which revolve freely in contact with the barrel. If pitch or
any other material used for lining of packages is applied to the barrel just before
it is put upon the conveyer, it will, by this rolling operation, be spread over
the entire surface thereof, before the barrel has reached the other end of the
conveyer.

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The lower ends of the tracks 4 are extended slightly, as shown at 22, to guide
the barrel to place and at the upper ends the tracks may have suitable holes to
receive the hooks of a skid 23.
In returning to the lower end, the shafts and their rollers are carried by the
small rollers 20 resting upon the under track rails 3 as shown in Figure III.
The track composed of T-iron 4 and guard rail 5 may be used in any position,
without the conveying apparatus herein described, where a track or skid is required
for sliding packages.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what inanner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. An apparatus for conveying rolling packages comprising suitable rails for
supporting the rolling package, conveying chains, sprocket wheels, cross-shafts or
bars fixed to said chains, a suitable distance apart, rollers loosely journaled upon
said cross-shafts, a track upon which said rollers operate for supporting the chains
and cross-shafts, and abutment rollers also loosely journaled upon said cross-shafts
and adapted to serve as rotating abutments for the rolling packages being conveyed
by the chains along the supporting rails, substantially as set forth.
2. The combination of the supporting frame 2, the guard rails 5 for supporting
the rolling package, the upper track 4, the lower track 3, the sprocket wheels 7
having suitable means of operation, the chains 6 supported on the sprocket wheels,
the cross-shafts or bars 15 connected to the chains a suitable distance apart, the
supporting rollers 20 loosely mounted on the ends of the shafts 15 and running on
the tracks 3 and 4, and the abutment rollers 19 also loosely journaled on the
shafts 14 and adapted to serve as rotating abutments for the rolling packages being
conveyed along the supporting rails, substantially as set forth.
3. The combination of the supporting frame, the T-iron rails 4 mounted upon
the supporting frame and forming tracks, the guard rails 5 mounted upon the
T-iron rails, the angle iron rails mounted below the T-iron rails and forming a
lower track, suitable conveyer chains supported upon sprocket wheels, cross-shafts
secured to the chains, and supporting and abutment rollers 20 and 19 mounted
upon the shafts, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 10th day of June 1895.
JOHNSONS,
115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.