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

1st. An apparatus for shipping coal consisting essentially of an endless series of conveying plates or platforms so guided and supported as to be capable of motion in a horizontal and vertical direction and of retaining their horizontality during the outward and downward movements, substantially as herein shown and described.

2nd. The apparatus consisting of a series of conveying plates or platforms pivoted by one edge to pairs of endless chains, outgoing and return guides for supporting and guiding the plates and of endless lowering chains, the whole constructed, combined, and arranged to operate substantially as herein described and represented in Figures 1 to 9 of the drawings.

3rd. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the several apparatus for shipping and distributing coal operating substantially as herein described and represented in the drawings.

In Witness whereof I the said George Taylor have hereunto set my hand and seal this fifteenth day of March, A.D. 1884.        G. TAYLOR. (L.S.)

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1884.