IMPROVED APPARATUS OR APPLIANCES FOR ELEVATING AND DELIVERING WEIGHTS, PARTICULARLY BULK CARGO
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Robinson, of Widnes, in the County of Lancaster,
Ironfounder, for the Invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS OR APPLIANCES
FOR ELEVATING AND DELIVERING WEIGHTS, PARTICULARLY BULK CARGO."
Sealed the 12th March 1878, and dated the 17th September 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION .left by the said Thomas Robinson at the
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Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th September 1877.
THOMAS ROBINSON, of Widnes, in the County of Lancaster, Ironfounder.
PROVED APPARATUS OR APPLIANCES FOR ELEVATING AND DELIVERING WEIGHTS,
PARTICULARLY BULK CARGO."
The object of this Invention is to provide simple, cheap, and durable elevating
and delivering apparatus, suitable for use in a variety of ways, such as the raising
of grain, coal, salt, or like bulk cargo from flats and ships, and the depositing of the
same in carts, warehouses, or other receptacles; the raising of earth and stones from
out of excavations, and delivering them on trucks or the like, and for a variety of
like purposes.
For this object, under one modification, I provide a pillar or stand, and pivot
thereto, at or near the top, an arm or arms, at the extremity of which is secured a
channeled or tube piece, provided at one end with a receiver or holder.
When in
use the channeled or tube piece is in a vertical or nearly vertical position, and the
receiver or holder rests on or near the material, substance, matter, or articles which
is or are filled into the said receptacle or holder. An upward motion is then given
to the arm or arms around its or their axes by means of hydraulic, steam, manual,
or other power, and the channeled or tube piece is raised into an inclined position,
having the receptacle or holder uppermost. The materials, substances, or articles in
the said receptacle or holder thereupon slide or move down the said channeled or
tube piece, and are delivered at the other end into a shoot, wagon, truck, or the
like, or on a warehouse floor or other desired place.
Under a second modification the above described channeled or tube piece, instead

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of being rigidly attached to the arm or arms, is pivotted thereon, and is controlled
in position by radius rods, rack and pinion gearing, or by other means.
channeled or tube piece is by the above means maintained in a vertical, or nearly
vertical position, whilst being raised from out of the hold of a ship or like place, and
is, when sufficiently raised, rapidly turned into an inclined position, with the recep-
tacle or holder uppermost. The contents of the said receptacle or holder then slide
or move down the incline, and are delivered into or on the desired place.
In practise I prefer to use a steam or hydraulic pressure acting on a piston in
a cylinder to give motion to the arm or arins. The attendant who fills the holder or
receptacle may controul the motion of the piston by means of a rod or other appliance
connected to the steam or hydraulic valve or valves.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas Robinson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th March
1878.
THOMAS ROBINSON, of Widnes, in the County of Lancaster, Ironfounder. "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR APPLIANCES FOR ELEVATING AND DELIVERING
WEIGHTS, PARTICULARLY BULK CARGO."
The object of this Invention is to provide simple, cheap, and durable elevating
and delivering apparatus, suitable for use in a variety of ways, such as the raising of
grain, coal, salt, or like bulk cargo from flats and ships, and the depositing of the
same in carts, warehouses, or other receptacles; the raising of earth and stones from
out of excavations and delivering them on trucks or the like, and for a variety of
like purposes.
The Invention consists essentially in employing a container, fixed or secured at
the end of a tube or channeled piece so suspended and arranged that when the tube
or channeled piece are raised the contents of the container slide or move down the
said tube or picce.
Under one modification I provide a pillar or stand, and pivot thereto at
or near the top, an arm or arms, at the extremity of which is secured a
channeled or tube piece provided at one end with a receiver or holder.
When in
use the channeled or tube piece is in a vertical or nearly vertical position, and the
receiver or holder rests on or near the material, substance, matter, or articles which
is or are filled into the said receptacle or holder. An upward motion is then given
to the arm or arms around its or their axis by means of hydraulic, steam, manual,
or other power, and the channeled or tube piece is raised into an inclined position
having the receptacle or holder uppermost; the materials, substances, or articles in
the said receptacle or holder thereupon slide or move down the said channeled or
tube piece, and are delivered at the other end into a short wagon, truck, or the like,
or on a warehouse floor or other desired place.
Figs. 1 and 2 are side elevations of apparatus or appliances constructed under
my Invention.
In Fig. 1a is the pillar or stand, having pivotted at the top the arm b, at the
extremity of which is secured the channeled or tube piece c, formed with the

page_text: container d. Motion is given to the arm and container from the piston rod e,
operated from the steam or hydraulic cylinder f.
In Fig. 2 the arms are dispensed with and the tube or channeled piece c is itself
pivotted to the pillar a; f is the steam or hydraulic cylinder.
Under a second modification the above-described channeled or tube piece, instead
of being rigidly attached to the arm or arms, is pivotted thereon, and is controlled
in position by radius rods, rack and pinion gearing, or by other means.
The said
channeled or tube piece is by the above means maintained in a vertical, or nearly
vertical position whilst being raised from out of the hold of a ship or like place, and
is, when sufficiently raised, rapidly turned into an inclined position with the recep-
tacle or holder uppermost. The contents of the said receptacle or holder then slide
or move down the incline, and are delivered into or on the desired place.
Figs. 3 and 4 are side elevations of further modification of apparatus or appliances
constructed under my Invention:-a, pillar; b, arms; c, tube or channeled piece;
d, container; e, piston and rod; f, hydraulic or steam cylinder; g, radius rods or
links pivotted to the pillar and to the tube or channeled piece.
The action of the apparatus or appliances will be obvious, as also that many
modifications of detail and arrangement may be made without departing from my
Invention.
In practice I prefer to use steam or hydraulic pressure acting on a piston in a
cylinder to give motion to the arm or arms. The attendant who fills the holder or
receptacle may control the motion of the piston by means of a rod or other appliance
connected to the steam or hydraulic valve or valves.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of the said Invention in such
manner that others will be enabled to carry my improvements into effect, I claim,
apparatus or appliances constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as herein
described for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Robinson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.