Improvements in the Method of and Means for the Unloading and Delivery of Coal, and also for its Delivery In and Out of Store.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 25th Nov., 1889---Accepted, 25th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Means for the Unloading and
Delivery of Coal, and also for its Delivery In and Out of Store.
I WILLIAM LLOYD WISE, of No. 46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of
Middlesex, Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object Improvements in the means of and method for
the unloading and delivery and also for the delivery in and out of store of coal and is
more particularly designed for dealing with coal used in locomotives.
Hitherto coal for locomotive service has usually been shovelled into baskets or other
receptacles of about one hundred weight capacity and carried and emptied into the
tender, basket after basket, involving heavy labour.
Now according to the present invention coal is unloaded from the railway wagon in
which it arrives into tipping wagons. These tipping wagons are then hoisted by
mechanical power on to a line above the height of the tender. If desired the coal
may be weighed at the same time.
The contents of the tipping wagon are delivered either into the tender or into
store.
In the latter case when the coal is required the tipping wagons are filled again on
the low level from the store and are hoisted to the high level by mechanical power,
and, after being weighed if required, the contents of the tipping wagons are shot into
the tender.
In carrying out this invention, the railway coal wagon to be unloaded is situated
upon a normal gauged railway line; at the sides of this railway line are two other
lines of narrow gauge crossing two turntables which communicate with another
narrow gauged line crossing the first mentioned narrow gauged lines at right angles,
or at any other convenient angle. This last line terminates in a building upon the
platform of a hoist. Upon the narrow guage lines alongside of the coal wagon to be
unloaded are placed tipping wagons; the body of each tipping wagon is made by
preference of sheet iron and holds about 10 hundredweights of coal. The side doors
of the coal wagon, of which there are by preference, three at each side are capable
of turning downwardly and are provided at their sides with. vertical rims or flanges
preferably of sheet iron to enable the doors to act as shoots to deliver the greatest.
part of the coal automatically into the tipping wagons.
These shoots when down rest on the tops of wooden docks or platforms between
which the tipping wagons are situated.
Small boards may be arranged of triangular form with the edge upwards, pro-
jecting over the tipping wagons, and covering the space between two wagons, so that
the coals are prevented from falling between them."
The filled tipping wagons are individually transported. over one of the turntables to:
the second narrow gauge line and to the platform of the hoist and are lifted by:
mechanical power through the boist to the high level line.
The hoist may be worked by any suitable motive power. The platform of the hoist
may be arranged to constitute the platform of a scale or weighing machine, so that
the net weight of the coal in the tipping wagon may easily be ascertained, the tare
weight of the car itself being known.
The scale or weighing machine is provided with two superposed beams, divided into
graduations. On the upper beam a sliding or running weight is provided for
indicating the weight up to one hundred weight, while a sliding weight on the lower
beam is provided for indicating any weight above one hundred weight. To put the,
platform of the scale at rest a lever is raised, so that the knife edges of the scale are

page_text: raised from their seats, so as to prevent the knife edges becoming blunt, by
unnecessary use. A second lever serves to bring the beams to rest, after the weight
of the load has been ascertained.
The high level line which is conveniently about 10 to 12 feet above the lower line
terminates at one end in a framing to which a part of the said line is pivotted, so that
it may be turned by the weight of a loaded tipping wagon from its vertical position,
into a horizontal position, in order to bring the tipping wagon above the tender. As
soon as the tipping wagon is removed from the pivoted part of the bigh level rail, this
part will return by the action of counter weights into its vertical position, so that the
main line is always free for the passage of a locomotive after the emptying of a wagon
into the tender is finished.
I prefer to construct the high level line between the hoist and the tilting pivotted
part with double tracks so as to be able to cause a series of tipping wagons to be
unloaded or emptied into the tender without loss of time and in quick succession.
The foregoing description refers to the means for emptying the tipping wagons
directly into the tender. In order to be able to empty them into the coal store the
emptying or unloading of the coal wagon into the tipping wagons and the hoisting of
these latter is accomplished in the same manner as above described. But instead of
bringing the tipping wagons towards the pivotted delivery shoot, they are pushed on
the high level the opposite way on to a turntable from where they may be pushed on
one of the lines leading over the coal stores or heaps. In this manner the unloading
of the wagon, and the filling of the stores is accomplished in an easy quick and cheap
manner.
In order to load a tender with coals from these stores a low level line is arranged,
to the one end of which a temporary track is connected; this track may be prolonged
at will and be provided with the necessary curves, so as to be able to bring the tipping
wagons into any desired spot within the stores for filling these wagons which when
loaded are pushed along the track to a turntable, by which they can be turned on to
the platform of the hoist to be hoisted to high level and emptied into the tender. In
this manner the filling of the tender with stored coals is also accomplished in an easy
quick and cheap manner.
The lines and tracks referred to in the foregoing description may be altered in
direction and level according to local circumstances, without departure from the
essential feature of the invention.
Dated this 25th day of Fahman 1000
W. LLOYD WISE.
ID
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Means for the Unloading and
Delivery of Coal, and also for its Delivery In and Out of Store.
Communicated by Julius Herrmann, Engine-House Superintendent, Royal Saxon
State Railways, Pieschen, near Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire.
I, WILLIAM LLOYD WISE, of No. 46 Lincolns Inn Fields, in the County of Middle-
sex, Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent, do bereby 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 for its object improvements in the method of and means for the
unloading and delivery of coals and also for its delivery in and out of store, and is
more particularly designed for dealing with coal used in locomotives.
Hitherto coal for locomotive service has usually been shovelled into baskets or other
receptacles of about one hundredweight capacity and carried and emptied into the
tender, basket after basket, involving heavy labour.
Now according to the present invention coal is unloaded from the railway wagon in
which it arrives into tipping wagons. These tipping wagons are then hoisted by
mechanical power on to a line above the height of the tender. If desired the coal

page_text: may be weighed at the same time. The contents of the tipping wagon are delivered
either into the tender or into store.
In the latter case when the coal is required the tipping wagons are filled again on
the low level from the store, and are hoisted to the high level by mechanical power
and after being weighed, if required, the contents of the tipping wagons are shot into
the tender.
In carrying out this invention the railway coal wagon A to be unloaded is situated
upon a normal gauge railway line I ; at the sides of this railway line are two other
lines II of narrow gauge, crossing two turntables B B, which communicate with
another narrow gauge line III, crossing the first mentioned narrow gauge lines II
at right angles or at any other convenient angle. This last line III terminates in a
building C upon the platform D of a hoist. Upon the narrow gauge lines 11 along.
side of the coal wagon A to be unloaded, are placed tipping wagons E; the body of
each tipping wagon is made by preference of sheet iron and holds about 10 hundred-
weights of coal. The side doors a of the coal wagon A of which there are by
preference three at each side are capable of turning downwardly and are provided at
their sides with vertical rims or flanges, preferably of sheet iron b b to enable the
doors to act as shoots to deliver the greatest part of the coal automatically into the
wagons. These shoots, when down, rest on the tops of wooden docks or platforms
between which the tipping wagons are situated.
The bottom of the coal wagon A may be roof-shaped, so as to be highest in the
middle and forming inclines towards both sides, thus facilitating the tendency of the
coal to run down into the tipping wagons or cars E.
From the gangways F, small boards may be arranged of triangular form with the
edge upwards, projecting over the tipping wagons and covering the space between
two wagons, so that the coals are prevented from falling between the cars E. E.
The coal wagon A may also be provided, in place of the side boards turning down-
wardly, with any suitable doors turning on vertical or horizontal hinges, in which
case, if such coal wagons are in use, the narrow gauge lines II may be laid down
nearer to the normal gauge line I and the gangway F may be dispensed with, as
shewn at the right hand side of wagon A in Fig. 1.
The filled tipping wagons are individually transported over one of the turntables B
to the second narrow gauge line III and to the platform D of the hoist and are lifted
by mechanical power through the hoist to the high level line IV.
The hoist may be worked by any suitable motive power.
Instead of working the platform of the hoist by a separate motor or gas engine, it
may be worked by a double acting steam hoist, fed by the steam from the locomotive.
In this case each locomotive may hoist the coals required for its tender or for any
future loading purposes, and lift the tipping cars up to the high level railway IV.
Thus an opportunity is given for using up the steam of locomotives, returning home
from service and before returning into the shed.
The steam may be led from the locomotive boiler into the working cylinder of the
steam hoist through one of its valves and a hose R, or a fixed tube S in combination
with a hose R as shewn in Fig. 1.
Both manners of working the hoist, that is by a separate motor and by the steam
hoist with steam from the locomotive are shewn in the drawing.
The separate motor is not shewn but the hoist worked by it is shewn in direct
connection with the high and low level railways.
The steam hoist fed by steam from the locomotive is shewn as a modification in
Figs. 1 and 2 separately from the high and low level railways. Such double acting
steam hoists are well known and I do not claim the use of a steam hoist as my inven-
tion except when applied to lifting coals by means of the steam from the locomotive,
the tender of which has to be provided with coals.
The platform D of the hoist may be arranged to constitute the platform of a scale
or weighing machine, so that the net weight of the coal in the tipping wagon may
be easily ascertained, the tare weight of the car itself being known.
The scale or weighing machine is provided with two superposed beams & and d

page_text: divided into graduations. On the upper beam d a sliding or running weight d' is
provided for indicating the weight up to one hundredweight, whilst a sliding weight d³
on the lower beam d² is provided for indicating any weight above one hundredweight.
To put the platform of the scale at rest, a lever d' is raised, so that the knife-edges of
the scale are raised from their seats so as to prevent the knife-edges becoming blunt,
by unnecessary use. A second lever d³ serves to bring the beams d and d² to rest,
after the weight of the load has been ascertained.
The high level line IV which is conveniently about 10 to 12 feet above the lower
line III, terminates at one end in a framing G, to which a part of the said line IV is
pivotted so that it may be turned by the weight of a loaded tipping wagon from its
vertical position into a horizontal position, in order to bring the tipping wagon above
the tender H. The tilting of the car is caused by withdrawing a bolt on the car.
As soon as the tipping wagon is removed from the pivotted part g of the high level
rail, this part will return by the action of counter weights g' into its vertical position
so that the main line Vis always free for the passage of a locomotive after the empty-
ing of a wagon into the tender is finished.
Automatic means may also be provided for bringing down the movable end part of
high level line IV into horizontal position for emptying the tipping wagon or for
raising said part of line into vertical position after use.
For this purpose there is provided a part or lever e in the rail of the high level to
be kept up by a spring or other means and pressed down by the wheels of the first
tipping wagon. The part e by its connection to a spur wheel e¹ on the pivot or shaft
of the movable line and by means of the levers e³ eese and the toothed quadrant e
will, if pressed down, cause the movable line to swing down into horizontal position,
in which it is held by the bolt e, which, forced by spring e, will take into a notch in
the wheel e¹. Thus all the following tipping cars will find the entire line at horizontal
level. Now in order that the turned down part of line may automatically replace
itself in a vertical position, when the loading of coal into the tender is completed and
so that this part of line may be out of the way for the locomotive on line V there is
arranged a lever e¹0 next to one of the rails of the line V. This lever is met by a
flange of the tender wheel when moving either way and by suitable connection to the
rod or bolt e causes the latter to descend and to be withdrawn out of the notch in
wheel e as soon as this takes place the weight gl will cause the movable part of
high level line IV to return into the vertical position.
The bolt or rod e8 may as shewn in Fig. 3, be provided at top with a handle e¹¹, to
allow the attendant to press upon the said bolt or rod for turning the movable part
of line up into vertical position if necessary.
It is preferred to construct the high level line IV between the hoist and the tilting
pivotted part g with double tracks, so as to be able to cause a series of tipping
wagons to be unloaded or emptied into the tender without loss of time and in quick
succession.
But
The foregoing description refers to the means for emptying the tipping wagons
directly into the tender. In order to be able to empty thein into the coal store the
emptying or unloading of the coal wagon A into the tipping wagons and the hoisting
of the latter is accomplished in the same manner as above described. In this case
the tipping wagons are also shifted from line II over the turntable B upon the
line III to the hoist and the weight may be ascertained during hoisting or not.
instead of bringing the tipping wagons towards the framing G they are pushed on the
high level the opposite way onto a turntable K, whence they may be pushed on one
of the lines, leading over the coal stores or heaps. In this manner the unloading of
the wagon A aud the filling of the stores L is accomplished in an easy quick and
cheap manner.
In order to load a tender H with coals from these stores La low level line VI
is arranged, to the one end of which a temporary track VI is connected ;
this
track may be prolonged at will and provided with the necessary curves, so as to
be able to bring the tipping wagons into any desired spot within the stores for
filling these wagons, which when loaded are pushed along the track Vl to a

page_text: turntable M by which they can be turned on the platform D of the hoist to be
In this manner the
hoisted to high level and emptied at g into the tender H.
filling of the tender H with stored coals is also accomplished in an easy, quick
and cheap manner.
The lines and tracks referred to in the foregoing description may be altered
in direction and level according to local circumstances, without departure from
the essential feature of the invention.
Should the coal department of a railway station be somewhat limited in its area,
means according to this invention may be arranged according to the ground
plan Fig. 4 in which is the normal gauge line with the coal wagon A at one or
both sides of which are the narrow gauge lines II 11 with the tipping wagons E E
the lines II II being provided with the turntables B B leading by the narrow gauge
lines III III onto the platforms D D of the hoisting apparatus, which platforms are
also provided with turntables, so as to correspond at high level with the lines VII VII
over the stores L or with the lines IV IV leading with its pivotted end g g over the
tender H which latter is on the low level normal gauge line V. The low level narrow
gauge line 11 next to the stores L is also used for emptying the stores.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. The hereinbefore described method of unloading and delivering coal and also of
delivering coal in and out of store the said method comprising the unloading of the
railway coal wagons A and simultaneous loading of the tipping wagon or wagons E,
hoisting the latter by mechanical power to a high level line above the height of the
tender without or with ascertaining the weight of hoisted coals on the platform of
the hoist, delivering the coals from the high level line by means of a tipping or
movable portion into the tender H or into the coal store and in the latter case after-
wards loading the tipping wagons on the low level within the coal store, hoisting the
wagons by mechanical power to a high level line above the height of the tender with
or without ascertaining the weight of the coals on the platform of the hoisting machine,
and emptying the tipping wagons into the tender.
2. In unloading and delivering coals, and also in delivering coals in and out of
store the combination with the low level lines I and II for unloading coals into tipping
wagons and the low level lines III and VI for shifting the tipping wagons, of the
high level lines IV and VII, the low level lines II, III, VI, and the high level
lines IV VII being connected by a hoisting machine the platform D of which carries
suitable rails and is fitted as a weigbing machine to ascertain the weight of the coals
in the wagon E on it, the high level line IV terminating at one end in a tipping
part g which is made to tilt into a horizontal position by the weight of the loaded
car E, but which part 9 returns to its normal position, if freed from such weight.
g
3. Lifting the tipping wagons E from the low level railway to the high level
railway by means of a steam hoist, worked by the steam of the locomotive, the tender
of which is to be provided with coals substantially as described.
4. The arrangement substantially as described whereby the movable end part 9 of
the high level line IV is brought into horizontal position by mechanism worked by the
tipping wagon e and into vertical position by the movement of the tender H.
5. For unloading and delivering coals and also for delivering coals in and out of
store the combination of low level normal and narrow gauge lines with hoisting
apparatus and high level narrow gauge lines arranged and operating substantially as
described with reference to Fig. 4.
L
Naambon 1000
W. LLOYD WISE.