Improvements in or relating to the Means of Conveying Coal and the like, and Loading it into Wagons or other Receptacles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 31st May, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 28th Feb., 1899-Accepted, 27th May, 1899
Improvements in or relating to the Means of Conveying Coal and
the like, and Loading it into Wagons or other Receptacles.
I, TOM NEWSUM TURNER, of the Vulcan Iron Works, Langley Mill, near
Nottingham, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to convey coal and the like as delivered from
sorting and screening machinery at collieries into railway wagons without shock
or breakage as far as practicable.
For this purpose at the ends of each sorting or picking belt I have a travelling
or lowering belt or shoot carried by a suitable girder framing. The upper end of
this framing near the sorting helt is hinged, and the lower end is left free to enter
the wagons, in such a manner that the angle of inclination of the framing into the
wagon may be altered at will by means of a hoist or other appliance at the free end
of the framing.
This framing carries on suitable friction rollers, an end-less travelling belt formed
of a series of iron plates, each plate having one or more corrugations formed across
or nearly across the same. These plates are secured to two or more series of iron
links which pass round hexagonal drums at the top and bottom of the framing, the
top drum is fitted with driving teeth, and is caused to revolve by power in a suitable
manner, and the shaft of the bottom drum revolves in adjustable bearings, so as to
keep the belt at the necessary tension.
Coal is received from the sorting belt on to the upper end of this travelling shoot,
and the corrugations on the plates prevent the coal from slipping on the belt-when
at any reasonable angle-as it is being carried down and deposited into the wagons
thereby without breakage. The free end of the shoot is balanced in a suitable
manner, and is arranged to load wagons of varying heights.
The bottom side of the framing is made flush and smooth so as to offer no
impediment should the wagons run on an incline under the belt; by this means any
possible chance of a breakdown is reduced to a minimum, as the wagon would either
be arrested in its motion by the belt framing, or the latter would be gently lifted up
out of the way by the balancing arrangement for this purpose.
In some cases I may arrange this shoot so as to form a continuation of the picking
belt; or it may be fitted separately, and a small screen shoot placed between the two
so as to take out any small quantities of dust made in dressing the coal on the
picking or sorting belts.
1000
Lurra Con 11207 sina na
of
H. WALKER HILL,
2, Church Gate, Nottingham, Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: at F, while its lower end enters the wagon W, and the angle or inclination of the
shoot is altered at will by the hoist H, and chain or rope H¹; this hoist may be
worken by hand shown in the arrangement at Fig. 3, or by power-as shown in the
arrangement at Figs. 1 and 2. The belt B is formed of a series of iron or steel
plates K-Figs. 4 and 5-having one or more corrugations K¹ formed either across
or nearly across the same. The side plates L, M are attached to the ends of the
corrugated plates to stiffen samne, and also to form ends for the plates. These plates
are secured to two or more series of links N,N, which pass round the drums D¹, D¹ at
the top and bottom of the framing C, C¹, which are driven by power in a suitable
manner.
Coal is received from the sorting belt A, on to the screen E, and thence on to the
upper end of the travelling shoot B; the corrugations K' on the plates K of which
prevent the coal from slipping thereon as it is being curried down and deposited in
the wagon W. The end D1 of the shoot is balanced by the balance weight H² in
such a manner, that if from any cause the wagon W is inoved to the right hand-as
shown on the drawing at Fig. 1; or to the left-shown at Fig. 3-the shoot will be
gently lifted up out of the wagon thereby.
In some cases I arrange the shoot B so as to form a continuation of the sorting
belt A-as shown in Fig. 3-and a small screen shoot E may be placed between the
two for taking out any small quantities of dust from the picked coal.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be under-
stood that I am aware that it has been proposed to use endless travelling belts or con-
veyors with hinged or pivoted framings and that I do not claim such construction
generally but I declare that what I claim is:-
In coal sorting and conveying machinery of the kind in which endless travelling
belts or conveyors are used in connection with hinged or pivoted framings
forming the travelling belts or shoots for conveying coal or other material with a
series of plates, each plate having one or more corrugations K' formed therein across
or partially across the same; for the purposes nained and substantially as herein before
described and shown on the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 27th day of February 1899.
H. WALKER HILL,
2, Church Gate, Nottingham, Agent for the Applicant.