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 USE IN LOADING VESSELS WITH COAL. "

In shipping coal by means of a staith, an inclined shoot is usually employed for conveying the coal from the railway waggons to the vessel and in order to obtain sufficient inclination to make the coal run down the shoot, it becomes necessary, when the waggons enter the staith at a low level, to hoist them up to a considerable elevation.