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

Figures 10 to 12.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus for conveying the coal from the staith to the hold of the vessel. Figure 2 is a front elevation, and Figure 3 a plan of the same.

Figure 4 is a side elevation with the nearest side removed. Figures 5 and 6 are details showing the mode of transferring the plates from the return to the outgoing guides, and Figures 7, 8 and 9 show detail views of the plate itself.

A. are a pair of side frames braced together and provided with a downwardly extending leg B. B1. in two or more sections bolted together to suit the depth of the hold. This frame is suspended by chains attached at points C. C. from the staith with the leg B. lowered through the hatchway.

The apparatus consists essentially of a conveyor composed of a series of carrying plates or platforms D. working in outgoing guides or ways E. E1. and return guides or ways F., these plates being adapted to be pulled along their guides in the form of a train or series, this motion being produced by the force of gravity, supplemented by power when necessary and the plates are adapted to pass from the outgoing to the return ways on arriving at the point of discharge at the foot of the leg B.

These plates D. are each constructed as shown in figures 7, 8 and 9, of a steel or iron plate having at one end pivots d. projecting from each side and passing through a circular link g. in the pair of endless chains G. by which the plates are propelled. These pivots carry antifriction rollers and project into the grooves of the guides E. or F.

The other end of each plate D. is notched at the corners and has lugs d1. fixed to it and projecting above said notches in such position that this end of the plate will be supported by said lugs whether upon the horizontal or inclined portion of the guide E1. which is formed by the flange of an angle iron fixed to the side frame A.