IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE STORING OF GRAIN AND SEED
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Bayzand Ellington and Joseph Liddell
Anderson, both of the City of Chester, Engineers, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE STORING OF GRAIN AND
SEED."
Sealed the 20th December 1872, and dated the 22nd October 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Bayzand
Ellington and Joseph Liddell Anderson at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 22nd October
1872.
We, EDWARD BAYZAND ELLINGTON and JOSEPH LIDDELL ANDERSON,
both of the City of Chester, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE STORING OF
GRAIN AND SEED," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the machinery
employed in warehousing grain and seed in bulk, the grain being
elevated by means of cranes, hoists, or other known appliances, and
distributed over the warehouse by creepers or travelling carrying bands.
At the point or points where the grain leaves the creepers or bands we

page_text: place spouts mounted so that they can be made to revolve, iuto which
the grain passes, and by swinging these spouts the grain is directed to
any desired point.
We also employ similar spouts to distribute grain from the elevator
on to any one of a number of creepers or bands radiating from the
clevator. By combining two or more of such spouts so that each will
command all the creepers or bands the grain can be taken from two or
more points, generally elevators, and sent from either or all down to any
one, two, or more of the creepers or bands.
The revolving spouts may also be so arranged as to receive the grain
from one travelling band, and either to deliver it on to other travelling
bands at a lower level, which convey the grain to different parts of the
warehouse, or by turning the spout it may be made to deliver the grain
directly on to the floor or into shoots.
In cases where a travelling band is passed at one or more points over
and under two guide rollers, situated the one below the other, so that
different portions of the band are thereby at different levels, the said
spouts may be placed so as to receive the grain from the part of the band
at the higher level, and either to deliver it on to the part of the band at
the lower level, or by turning the spout it may be made to deliver the
grain on to other bands or creepers, or directly on to the floor or into
shoots.
These revolving spouts may either be moved and set directly by hand
or they may be shifted by wire ropes, bands, or rods connected from
them to levers mounted at a central point of the warehouse, so that an
attendant at that point can by moving the levers alter the directions of
the several spouts.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Bayzand Ellington and Joseph Liddell
Anderson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th April 30
1973.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto us, the said Edward Bayzand Ellington and
Joseph Liddell Anderson, Her special license that we, the said Edward
Bayzand Ellington and Joseph Liddell Anderson, our executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, or such others as wc, the said Edward Bayzand
Ellington and Joseph Liddell Anderson, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, usc, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE STORING OF
GRAIN AND SEED," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Edward Bayzand Ellington and Joseph Liddell Anderson, our executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their hands
and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Bayzand Ellington, on
behalf of myself and the said Joseph Liddell Anderson, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement thercof, reference being had to the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the machinery
employed in warehousing grain and seed in bulk, the grain being
elevated by means of cranes, hoists, or other known appliances, and
distributed over the warehouse by creepers or travelling carrying bands.
At the point or points where the grain leaves the creepers or bands we
place spouts mounted so that they can be made to revolve, into which
the grain passes, and by swinging these spouts the grain is directed to
any desired point.

page_text: We also employ similar spouts to distribute grain from the elevator
on to any one of a number of creepers or bands radiating from the
elevator. By combining two or more of such spouts, so that each will
command all the creepers or bands, the grain can be taken from two or
more points, generally elevators, and sent from either or all down to
any one, two, or more of the creepers or bands.
The revolving spouts may also be so arranged as to receive the grain
from one travelling band, and either to deliver it on to other travelling
bands at a lower level which convey the grain to different parts of the
warehouse, or by turning the spout it may be made to deliver the grain
directly on to the floor or into shoots.
In cases where a travelling band is passed at one or more points over
and under two guido rollers, situated the one below the other, so that
different portions of the band are thereby at different levels, the said
spouts may be placed so as to receive the grain from the part of the band
at the higher level, and either to deliver it on to the part of the band at
the lower level, or by turning the spout it may be made to deliver the
grain on to other bands or creepers, or directly on to the floor or into
shoots.
These revolving spouts may either be moved and set directly by hand, :
or they may be shifted by wire ropes, bands, or rods connected from
them to levers mounted at a central point of the warehouse, so that an
attendant at that point can by moving the levers alter the directions of

page_text: turned so as to deliver into a spout or creeper F. Fig. 3 represents a
side view of a spout similarly constructed, and applied for transferring
the grain from one portion of a travelling band G to another portion of
the same band conducted to a lower level by guide rollers g, I.
The spouts, as above described, may be turned to the desired direction
either by band or in the following manner:-Round the cylindrical neck
of either or both of the parts of the spout is formed a groove for a band
or cord H, which is passed round suitable guide pullies h, h, and con-
veyed to any convenient position. By pulling such bands or cords in
the one direction or the other either part or both parts of the spout can
be turned as required; and thus from one central point in a granary or
warehouse the direction in which the grain is to be received or delivered
at various distant points can be commanded.
Fig. 4 represents diagrammatically a plan of an arrangement of such
spouts as have been above described in connection with several elevators,
travelling bands, creepers, or fixed spouts. e¹, e², are clevators by which
the grain is raised to the upper floor; and c, c, are a number of creepers,
travelling bands, or delivery spouts for conveying the grain in different
directions, as, for example, to millstones or store bins. By arranging
those points of delivery circularly round revolving spouts s¹, &, such as
have been described above, grain can be conveyed from either elevator
to any of the points of delivery. For example the spout 8' can be set
so as to convey from the clevator e¹ to the point d, as shown in the
Figure, or the lower part can be turned to such an attitude as is indi-
cated by the dotted lines 8³, so as to deliver at d'; and in like manner the
spout 8 can be made to convey grain from the clevator e³ to d³, d³, or
other points in the same circle. Again the upper part of the spout &¹
may be turned to e*, as indicated by the dotted lines so, and the upper
part of 8 may be turned as to e¹, and thus either elevator can be
placed in connection with any of the points of delivery.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we claim,-
First. The use of revolving spouts constructed and operating sub-
stantially in the manner and for the purposes herein described.
Second. The mode of turning revolving spouts, such as have been
above referred to, by means of cords or bands, so that from one point in a

page_text: granary or warehouse the reception and delivery of grain, seeds, and the
like at various distant points can be commanded, substantially as hercin
described.
Third. The arrangement of revolving spouts, such as have been above
referred to, so as to bring into connection with one another the elevators,
travelling bands, or other apparatus for conveying grain, seeds, and the
like throughout a granary or warehouse, substantially as herein described
in reference to Fig. 4.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Bayzand Ellington, have
hereunto set my hand and scal, this Seventeenth day of April,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
EDWARD BAYZAND ELLINGTON. (L.s.)