GB190617466A - Improvements in Ship Loading Apparatus. - Google Patents

Abstract

17,466. Hulett, G. H. Aug. 2. Loading and unloading. -Comprises ship-loading apparatus in which a continuous horizontal conveyer capable of longitudinal and vertical adjus t men directs the material into any part of the ship. Fig. 1 shows a ship 2 being loaded from a barge 3, the apparatus being mounted on a float. An open framework A supports a bucket 4 by which fuel or other material is removed from the barge 3 and deposited in a hopper 5. This directs the material into an inclined conveyer 6, which carries it up and deposits it into the conveyer 7. The conveyer 7 comprises an endless belt mounted to run on rollers 8 at the ends of a frame 9, and is supported at intermediate points by idle rollers arranged so as to give a trough-like shape to the upper member of the conveyer. The frame 9 runs in and out on rollers 12 supported in the carriage 20, which is hinged to the frame 18<a> at one end and at the other end runs on trackways 22 secured to the frame 18<a>. The lower part of the conveyer 7 passes over two idle rollers 13 and down below a drive roller 14 secured on a flexible shaft 15, to which motion is transmitted by bevel-wheels 16, 17 from a shaft 18 having a grooved pulley 20<a>, which is driven by a rope 20<b> on which the pulley has free adjustment up and down. The conveyer 7 can be moved in and out by locking its belt to either of the rollers 8 and allowing the drive roller 14 to turn in the proper direction. One method of doing this is shown in Fig. 3. The lever a can press a shoe b down and thus lock the belt to the pulley 8. The frame 18<a> is supported by cables 25 passed over sheaves at the top of the main frame A and thence down over drums in the bottom of the float 1 to a motor. The frame can thus be raised to any convenient height. The conveyer 6 comprises a casing hinged between its ends and provided with gearing so as to raise or lower the hinged portion to position the same exactly over the conveyer 7. A scraper chain mechanism serves to draw the material up through the conveyer 6 to a discharge opening, several of which are provided having enclosures thus permitting of any one being opened as may be necessary to discharge the material into the conveyer 7.