Volume Eleven - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - some more aspects - Patent Applications by George Taylor, of Penarth, 1883 . . .

PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Taylor at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th September 1883.

GEORGE TAYLOR of Penarth in the County of Glamorgan " IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING COAL FROM RAILWAY WAGGONS TO VESSELS. "

In order to diminish the weight to be raised in the staith, I provide a receiver of special construction which may be used in the place ordinarily occupied by the tipping cradle or platform, into which receiver the waggon itself is discharged instead of running the waggon itself into the staith as usual.