Improvements in Crane Apparatus for Lifting, Transferring, and Discharging Wagons or Trucks.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 4th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 9th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Crane Apparatus for Lifting, Transferring, and
Discharging Wagons or Trucks.
I, FRANCIS GOULD MORONY STONEY, of Waterside Works, Ipswich, in the
County of Suffolk, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows, that is to say :-
- My said invention has for its object, to enable wagons or trucks to be
expeditiously and conveniently lifted off the running road, and transferred to a
position for discharging their loads into a ship or other receptacle or for being
loaded.
The apparatus as designed for dealing with wagons or trucks which are
lischarged by opening hopper doors in their bottoms, comprises an improved
cradle and arrangement of slings, which latter are connected to the hoisting chain
of a crane of any suitable construction.
The cradle consists of a rectangular horizontal frame, the side bars of which are
adapted to lie on the rails on which the wagons or trucks run, or on the ground in
the absence of rails. The upper sides of the side bars are adapted to receive and
support the wheels of a wagon or truck when in the cradle; and the side bars
have jointed to their ends tapered ramp arms which when laid down form
easy inclines for running a wagon off the rails or ground into the cradle. The two
ramp arms at each end of the cradle are fixed on a transverse rocking shaft fitted
to the cradle; and at short distances from their centres have swivel-jointed to them
levers to the outer ends of which the sling chains are connected, or the sling
chains may be connected directly to the ramp arms. The sling chains depend
from an upper cross frame connected to the hoisting chain of the crane, this cross
frame spreading the sling chains connected to the cradle so as to be quite clear of a
wagon or truck when on the cradle or when entering or leaving it.
When a wagon or truck has been run on to the cradle and the hoisting operation
is proceeded with the first action is to turn up the ramp arms against the
wheels of the wagon or truck which is thereby held steadily in position on the
cradle.
The cradle can be made of ample strength with moderate weight. The sling
chains do not require to be unhooked during any part of the operations; and they
do not in any way impede the moving of the wagon or truck into or out of the
cradle. The hoisting operation adjusts and securely holds the wagon or truck in
the proper position in the cradle; and when the sling chains are. lowered they
allow the ramp bars to lie on the rails or ground ready for running the wagon or
truck into or out of the cradle.
Dated this Eighth day of February 1892
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Crane Apparatus for Lifting, Transferring, and
Discharging Wagons or Trucks.
1, FRANCIS GOULD MORONY STONEY, of Waterside Works, Ipswich, in the
County of Suffolk, Engineer, 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, that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object, to enable wagons or trucks to be

page_text: expeditiously and conveniently lifted off the running road, and transferred to a
position for discharging their loads into a ship or other receptacle or for being
loaded.
The apparatus as designed for dealing with wagons or trucks which are discharged
by opening hopper doors in their bottoms, comprises an improved cradle provided
with ramp arms which when laid down form easy inclines for running a wagon
or truck off the rails or ground onto the cradle, and which are connected by
an arrangement of slings to the hoisting chain of a crane of any suitable
construction.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings,
to be hereinafter referred to, and showing my improved crane apparatus.
Figures, 1, and, 2, of the drawings are respectively side and end elevations of
the apparatus and a waggon, and showing the positions of the parts when the
wagon is about to be lifted.
Figures, 3, and 4, are parts of similar views showing the positions of the parts
when the wagon is about to be run onto or off the cradle.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
The cradle, A, consists of a rectangular horizontal frame the side bars, B, of
which are adapted to be on the rails, C, on which the wagon or truck, D, runs, or
on the ground in the absence of rails. The upper sides of the side bars, B, are
adapted to receive and support the wheels, E, of a wagon or truck, D, when in the
cradle, A; and the side bars, B, have jointed to their ends tapered ramp arms, F,
which when laid down form easy inclines for running a wagon, D, off the rails or
ground onto the cradle, A. The two ramp arms, F, at each end of the cradle, A,
are fixed on a transverse rocking shaft, G, fitted to the side bars, B, of the cradle;
and at short distances from their centres have swivel-jointed to them levers, H, to
the outer ends of which the sling chains, J, are connected, or if desired the sling
chains may be connected directly to the ramp arms, F. The sling chains, J,
depend from an upper cross frame, K, connected to the hoisting chain of the crane
(not shown) this cross frame spreading the sling chains connected to the cradle, A,
so as to be quite clear of a wagon or truck, D, when on the cradle or when entering
or leaving it.
When a waggon or truck, D, has been run onto the cradle, A, and the hoisting
operation is proceeded with the first action is to turn up the ramp arms, F, against
the wheels, E, of the wagon or truck, D, which is thereby held steadily in position
on the cradle, A.
The cradle, A, can be made of ample strength with moderate weight. The sling
chains, J, do not require to be unhooked during any part of the operations; and
they do not in any way impede the moving of the wagon or truck, D, into or out of
the cradle, A. The hoisting operation adjusts and securely holds the wagon or
truck, D, in the proper position in the cradle, A; and when the sling chains, J,
are lowered they allow the ramp bars, F, to lie on the rails, C, or ground ready for
running the wagon or truck, D, into or out of the cradle, A.
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, arrangement, and combination of parts constituting my
improved crane apparatus for lifting, transferring, and discharging wagons or
rucks, substantially as herein before described and as shown in the accompanying
drawings.
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EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.