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

I have illustrated the invention in the accompanying drawings wherein :

Figure 1 is a plan of the lower framing supporting the receivers at the receiving level.
Figure 2 is a plan,
Figure 3 is a side elevation and
Figure 4 an end elevation of the framing supporting the receivers at the discharging level.
Figures 5 and 6 are a plan and side elevation of one of the receivers.

Figures 1 to 6.

In Figure 1 A. is a frame fixed at the lower part of the staith having rails inclining downwards towards the receiving point on which the receivers B. which are boxes on wheels, run down to that point. C. is an open frame supported within the staith by chains or otherwise so as to be adjusted to the required height for discharging the receivers.

This frame has angle iron rails D. projecting from its inner sides for the receivers to run on said rails being inclined in the opposite direction to the incline of the lower rails.

A section D1. of the rails D. at the highest end is made in the form of a hinged flap capable of being raised by the wheels of the receiver as the latter is raised through tbe frame C. by any suitable elevating apparatus, said section after the wheels have risen past them falling down into line with the other part of the rails to support the receiver and enable it to travel along the rails to the other end of the frame.

This end C1. of the frame projects beyond the staith sufficiently to admit of the receiver being discharged into a shoot the discharge being effected by dropping down the hinged bottom of the receiver as shown in Figure G.