Improvements in Machines for Weighing Bale and like Goods.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1395
Complete Specification Left 6th Nov. 1805 Accented 7th Dec
1805
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Weighing Bale and like Goods.
I, HENRY POOLEY, of Albion Foundry, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference more particularly to weighing machines for
weighing bale goods, as cotton bales, and other analogous bales, and other analogous
packages.
According to this invention, in connection with a weighing machine-as a
platform weighing machine-I provide on or in connection with the platform,
a device adapted to act as a support or stop to hold or keep in position the bale
or goods when moved on to the platform, and also to act as a lever or means of
pressing or moving the bale or package off the machine, or to assist in so doing,
after the bale or package has been weighed.
In one arrangement, in a platform weighing machine, this device or means just
described is mounted centrally, preferably, upon a turn table on the platform, and
is adapted to vibrate or swing to and fro about the point of support on the turn
table, it being guided and held by side bars or frames on the turn table. In action,
a bale or package would be placed on the turn table and pushed or placed so as to
rest on the vibrating support or device, and in this position would be weighed ;
then, when the bale has been weighed, the turn table can be turned with the bale
on it, if desired, say half a revolution, and then it can be moved or tipped off by
pushing over the said vibrating support or device, so discharging it; or, it
may be assisted by this device in removing it from the turn table or platform.
When this action is complete, the turn table will be in position without revolving
or moving it, to receive another bale or package on the opposite side.
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CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON, Fels. Chart. Inst. P.A.,
15 Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.
Improvements in Machines for Weighing Bale and like Goods.
I, HENRY POOLEY, of Albion Foundry, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
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 :-
This invention has reference more particularly to weighing machines for
weighing bale goods, as cotton bales, and other analogous bales, and other
analogous packages.
According to this invention, in connection with a weighing machine-as a
platform weighing machine-1 provide on or in connection with the platform,
a device adapted to act as a support or stop to hold or keep in position the
bale or goods when moved onto the platform, and also to act as a lever or means of
pressing or moving the bale or package off the machine, or to assist in so doing,
after the bale or package has been weighed.

page_text: In one arrangement, in a platform weighing machine, this device or means just
described is mounted centrally, preferably, upon a turn table on the platform, and
is adapted to vibrate or swing to and fro about the point of support on the
turn table, it being guided and held by side bars or frames on the turn table.
In action, a bale or package would be placed on the turn table and pushed or
placed so as to rest on the vibrating support or device, and in this position
would be weighed ; then, when the hale has been weighed, the turn table can be
turned with the bale on it, if desired, say half a revolution, and then it can be
moved or tipped off by pushing over the said vibrating support or device, so
discharging it; or, it may be assisted by this device in removing it from the turn
table or platform. When this action is complete, the turn table will be in position
without revolving or moving it, to receive another bale or package on the opposite
side.
.
A platform weighing machine having the characteristics above described, is
illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an end elevation of
the machine, Figure 2 is a plan, and Figure 3 side elevation.
Referring now to these drawings, the vibrating support device is designated a, and
consists of a bar device mounted on pivots a' at the opposite ends of the platform b,
this platform being in itself a rotating one, i.e. is in the form of turn table, and
supported and adapted to revolve on wheels or rollers 6', which run upon a track
on the plate c of the machine. The vibrating support a is guided at each end,
and its movement in either direction about its pivots a¹ is limited by bars d, the
upper parts d' of which are struck at radii having for their centres, the centres of
the pivots a', while the side bars of the device a which come next the part d'are
cranked or bent as shewn. At this point there is a secondary bar a extending
between the sides of the device a. The bars d also serve as means for holding the
goods in position from a side direction, and prevent their falling off.
The type of machine illustrated is, as will be seen, of the well known platform
weighing machine type, of which e designates the part containing the steel-yard,
f the box in which the weighing levers are contained, and the column connecting
the part e with f, and supporting it upon the base of the machine. The machine
shewn is also provided with wheels i by which it can be moved about, and is
particularly adapted for weighing goods on quays, and other places where
merchandise is handled, as for instance, for weighing bales or packages of goods
as they are moved from one point to another, as from a ships hold, waggon, or the
like, to the quay, or other space, or to another vehicle.
The action of the apparatus is, that a bale or package being placed on the turn-
table b, say end wise, is so placed on the turn-table that one end rests on the turn-
table b, and the other end on the vibrating holder a'; and in this case, the device a
will take one of the positions shewn by the dotted radial lines, which represent
the extreme positions of the device a on either side of the machine. In this
position the bale or package would be weighed, and then when the bale has been
weighed, the turn-table with the bale on it is turned, say, half a revolution; and
the bale or package is then moved or tipped off by pushing over the vibrating
or oscillating support a, so discharging it; or the device a may be used to assist
only in the removal of the package or bale from the machine. The bale or
package having thus heen removed, the turn-table and vibrating device are in a
position ready to receive another package or bale from the same side, without
moving the table or the device or revolving the platform.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A weighing machine for weighing bales and like goods, having upon or
above the platform or turn-table of the machine, a supporting device such as
¨‚ described, adapted to move from one side to the other, and acting as and for the
purposes described.

page_text: 2. In a platform weighing machine for weighing bales and like goods, a turn-
table, and a vibrating support device mounted on said table, and adapted to move
about a pivot or support on said table, in opposite directions; as set forth with
reference to and shewn in the drawings.
Dated this 5th day of November 1895.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
15 Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.