Improvements in Trolleys for Transporting Coal Skips from Crane Heads to the Place where the Coal is to be Deposited.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Jan., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 27th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted. 2nd Nov., 1888
Improvements in Trolleys for Transporting Coal Skips from
Crane Heads to the Place where the Coal is to be Deposited.
I ARTHUR CHARLES HART of Harts Wharf Globe Lane Woolwich in the County
of Kent Coal Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My Invention relates to Improvements in Trolleys for transporting Coal Skips from
the Crane Heads to the place where the Coal is to be deposited. The main object of
the said Invention is to obviate the excessive breakage of Coal which occurs when the
Coal is placed in the Skip from the Ships hold and is there dumped into a truck
for conveyance to the Store or other place."
In carrying this Invention into practice I employ a Trolley which is provided with
a series of gudgeons or standards at its sides between which the bails of the Skips
are designed to pass when a Skip is lowered by the Crane on to the said Trolley.
These gudgeons or standards on the sides of the trolley keep the bail of the Skip in
an upright position just the same as if it were suspended by the crane-chain. After
one or more of such Skips have been lowered upon the trolley with their bails
between the gudgeons or standards as aforesaid they may be taken on to the trolley
to the desired place when on releasing the cotter of the Skip in the usual way the
contents of such Skip may be discharged thus dispensing with the necessity of
transferring the coal to a truck and the consequent extra breakage of the Coal.
Dated this 21st day of January 1888

page_text: Crane Heads to the Place where the Coal is to be Deposited.
ARTHUR CHARLES HART of Hart's Wharf Globe Lane Woolwich in the County
of Kent Coal Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
by the following statement :-
My invention relates to improvements in trolleys for transporting coal skips from
the crane heads to the place where the coal is to be deposited. The main object of
the said invention is to obviate the excess of breakage of coal which occurs when the
coal is placed in the skip from the ships hold and is then dumped into a truck for
conveyance to the store or other place.
The accompanying drawings illustrate the method of carrying my invention into
practice Fig 1 being a plan and Fig 2 an elevation of my improved Trolley with a
coal skip in position.
The frame A of the trolley is provided with a series of gudgeons or standards BB
on its side between which the bails C of the skip D are designed to pass when the skip
is lowered by the crane on to the said trolley. These gudgeons or standards BB on
the sides of the trolley keep the bail C of the skip D in an upright position just the
same as if it were suspended by the crane chain.
After one or more of such skips have been lowered upon the trolley with their
bails between the gudgeons or standards as aforesaid they may be taken on the
trolley to the desired place when on releasing the cotter of the skip in the usual
way the contents of such skip may be discharged thus dispensing with the necessity
of transferring the coal to the trucks and the consequent extra breakage of the
coal.
It will be evident that my trolley or skip can be used for carrying molten metal in
workshops and like places.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
The Trolley having gudgeons or standards substantially as described and for the
purposes set forth.
Dated the 20th day of September 1888