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

Under this Invention horizontal plates are connected together in series by chains and form an area or surface upon which the coal is received and conveyed. The plates and coal are supported by guides and travel out horizontally from the staith to the hatchway where they pass in an inclined direction to the vessels' hold into which they are lowered down.

The coal then passes from this series of plates to similar plates of another series which travel horizontally in the hold and by means of which it is carried towards the ends of the vessel and discharged. In both series, after the coal has passed off from each plate the latter is taken away by the chains and so returns by means of guides to the place where it started and it is there reloaded and passes outwards as before described.

When the plates travel horizontally the side framework which supports the guides prevents the coal from falling off the plates and when the plates descend they are enclosed in framework which forms a tube or shaft and keeps the coal from falling off.

I have illustrated the Invention in the accompanying drawings and will now describe it with reference thereto.

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