US1218908A - Combined receiving, discharging, and conveying device. - Google Patents

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COMBINED RECEIVING, DISCHARGING, AND CONVEYING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 8.1913.

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COMBINED RECEIVING, DISCHARGING, AND CONVEYING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV, 8. 1913.

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' COMBINED RECEIVING, DIESCHARGING, AND CONVEYING DEVICE.

To all whom it may concern: a

Be it known that I, Iflnwann W. Snn'rr, a citizen of the United States of America, residin in'Pueblo, in the county of Pueblo and tate of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Receiving, Discharging, and Com veying Device for Concrete-Mixers and the like. This invention relates more especially to labor saving devices which are used in construction work where'large quantities of material are to. be handled, said material be- 'ing dumped into a receptacle which is provided with a regulated discharge outlet, said discharge being in communication with a. moving platform whereby the material 'upon being received by the aforesaid rccep' tacle can be conveyed in a properly regu '20 lrted steady flow to its objective point.

Another object is' to provide an elevator adjacent the discharge end of the receiving receptacle in which the material that has been discharged from the receiving receptacle'is carried by said elevator to storage bins, or to places where the material is to be used.

A further object is to provide a receiving receptacle with a regulated discharge end, and a moving platform adjacent the discharge end, to receive the material when the :material is discharged from the receiving receptacle.

' Other and further objects will appear in 'the' specification, and be specifically pointed out in the-appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings exemplifying theinventi-on, and in which,

proved receiving and dischargingreceptacle mounted on a portable base,'and having an elevator located thereadjacent, said elevator being for the purpose of discharging material from the receptacle to storage bins which are located above a concrete'mixer.

Fig. 2 is a." plan View of Fig. '1. I

Fig! 3 is an enlarged transverse section- 1 on the'li'ne III-J11, Fig. 1.

"Fig; 4 isfan enlarged longitudinal section taken on the line IV-IV,.Fig. 2. Fig 5 is a view of the rear portion of a train of'oars showing this improved device used ina different embodiment. I i

Fig. 6 's a View similar to Fig. 5, but

showing the forward end of a: train of cars.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Figure leis a side elevation of this im Patented Mar. 13, 19-17.

2 Application filed Nol 'einbert, 1913. Serial No. 799,813.

Fig. 7 is an enlarged cross section on the line VII-VII, Fig. 5.

Referring to the drawings: 1 designates the rear wheels of a vehicle which are mount ed on the rear axle 2, and 3 are front wheels which are mounted on the front axle 4. Suspended from the rear axle 2 at one end, and mounted on the front axle 1 at their opposite ends are a pair of side members 5.

Mounted between said side members 5, from their forward ends to a point intermediate, is a receiving receptacle 6, said de- 'ceptacle having inclined side walls 7, and

inclined end walls 8. Mounted longitudinally on each side wall 7 is an'inclined ledge 9, and secured to each end wall 8 1s one end of a diverging'nlember 10, said diverging member being in approximate horizontalali'i'i'ement with the ledges 9.

' Formed between each ledge S.) and the diverging portion 10, is a longitudinal opening 11. livotally mounted at 12 to each. side wall 7 is a closure 13, said closures extending longitudinally of the receptacle 6, and being located adjacent the under sides of the ledges J. Secured to each closure 13 is one end of a pair of cables 14, each of said pair of cables having their opposite ends secured to a horizontally arranged shaft 15, said shafts being su 'iported at their ends in the end walls 8, and being supported interln'cdiately of their ends by brackets 16, said 'brackets being mounted on transverse bars 17,. said 'bars being supported in the side walls 7.

Mounted on one end of eachshaft 15, ad jacent the forward end of the receptacle 6 is a sprocket 18, each sprocket having mounted-the'reon an endless chain 19, each chain being geared to. a handle 20. Mounted on each side Wall 7, beneath ,each closure 13 is aninclined ledge 21, said ledges 21 adapted to serve as supports to said closures 13 when said closures have been fully opened. Connecting said side walls 7, adjacent their lower ends are aseries of transverse bars 22, and mounted acrosssaid bars area pair of roller supports 23, in which is re'volubly mounted a series of rollers 24. Mounted in said supports adjacent each end is areturn roll'er 25, said return rollers having an endless belt 26 mounted thereon, the under side of the up ported by sea rollers 24.

lper ply of said belt being sup-1 their rear ends, is a platform 27 and mounted on said platform are a series of vertical uprights 28, said uprights being for the support of storage Jams 28 and 29. Vertically mounted between said storage bins are uprights 30, said'uprights being for the purpose of supporting a pair of vertical guides 31, and slidably mounted on said guides is a hoisting bucket 32. Depending from the under side of each of said storage bins 28 and 29 are discharge spouts 33, only one being shown, each spout having a slide damper 34.

Located adjacent said spouts is a receiving trough 35, said trough leading to a concrete mixer 36, which is located on the plat form 27 Mounted on top of each storage bin 28 and 29, is a bracket"37, said brackets being for the support of a horizontal shaft 38. Mounted on said horizontal shaft are a pair of sprockets 39, each of said sprockets aving an endless chain 40 mounted thereon. Mounted betwe wn said chains. and spaced at equal distances apart are a series of buck- 'ets 41, said buckets and chain forming an elevator Mounted beneath the platform 27 is ahorizontalshaft 43, said shaft having a pair of .sprockets 44 mounted thereon,

which sprockets engage the lower ends of the endless chains 40.

Located below said sprockets 44 is a re ceiving chamber 45. Secured'to' one brackets 46, in which is mounted a horizontal shaft 47, said shaft having sprockets 48 and of the. side walls of the storage bin28 is a pair of 49 mounted thereon, and mounted on one end of the shaft 38 is a s'procket'50, said sprockets 49 and 50 being linked together by the endless chain 51. Mounted on the sprocket 18 is an endless chain 52, said endless chain engaging at its opposite end a sprocket 53, said sprocket 53 being mounted on the shaft 54 of'a motor 55.

The storage bins 28 a conveyer 56 located thereabove, and exerable by a shaft 57,. having-afriction drum acha'in belt 61. Mounted to one side of said c'onveyer 56 adjacent the. centerjthereof, is

an. inclined chutefi2, and mounted on the site'lv oppositelside of said conveyor, and oppo- Formed.- on each side of the receiving re ceptac'le- 6, and at the top thereof, is aborizonta-l extension 64, said extensions forming a platform for the reception of wagons loaded with material to be dumped into said reoeptacle 6. Secured to one of the end walls @101? saidreceptacle 6 by'hooks 65, is an inc ined runway 66. Mounted to one side of disposed from the chute 62 is a de-' and 29 being spacedapart as shown more clearlyin Fig. 2, have 5.8 mounted thereon, said drum being infrictional contact with a disk 59 mounted the elevator 42 on the platform 27 is a windlass67, said Windlass having a cable 68 secured thereto, said cable upon being placed around the pulleys ()9 for the purpose of drawing a wagon on to the extensions 6% of the receptacle 6. Mounted on the front axle 4 is a turn table 70, said turn table and axle having a segment 71 secured thereto, said segment being in mesh with the )inion 72, and mounted on tlie under side 0 said pinion is a. pulley 73 on which is wound a cable 74.

In the embodiment shown in the drawings, this improved device is mounted on a vehicle so that it is portable, and can be moved about tothe most advantageous points in erly installed'relativc to the work, the run-' way (36 is secured to the forward end of the receptacle 6 by engaging the hooks 65 on one of the walls 8. The wagons that (-on vey the material which is to be handled by 1 this improved device are drawn up adjacent the runway (36, and the cable 8 of the. windlass'(' 7 is let out and is attached to'the rear axle of a wagon, and the windlass is thenmanipulated, and the wagon drawn up the runway, the wheels of the wagon. riding on the extensions (34.

The contents of the wagon is then deposited into the receiving receptacle 6, the closures 13 of said receptacle of course being previously closed. In order to convey the material from the receptacle 6, the motor is started, and power is transmitted to the vertical conveyer 42 by the endless chain'i'i2 transmitting power to the shaft'47, and the endless chain 51, which is'mounted on the sprockets Q9 and 50, said sprocket fidqbeing inounted on the shaft 38, which shaft operates said conveyer. \Vhen the elevator 42 is in motion, the endless belt 26 is also put into operation by the; sprocket 79', which is mounted on one endof the shaft 43, and the link belt 80, which is mounted on said sprocket 79, and asprocket 81, which is mounted at one end of one of the rollers 25 of the endless belt 26. Th'e'closures 13 of the receptacle 6 are then allowed to open by turning the shafts '15 in an unwinding direction; thereby unwinding the cables 14 from said shafts. I i

The material ,that has been dumped into the receptacle 6 will pass through the openings 11 on to the upper ply of the endless belt 26, and its the upper ply of said endless belt travels toward the conveyor 42, the material that has been deposited on said belt, will be in turn deposited into the receiving chamber 15, and the buckets 41, as said buckets ride through said'chamber.

The loaded buckets are then carried upwardly and are deposited on the chute 62, and on to the horizontal conveyer 56. This conveyor is put in operation simultaneously with the conveyer 42, and is for the purpose of depositing the material therefrom into either of the storage bins 28 or 29, as is de sired by the will of the operator.

. -'\ssuming that material such as gravel or crushed rock is desired to be deposited into the bin 28, the friction drum 58, which is slidably mounted on the shaft 57 is moved on the face of the friction disk 59 to a position which will operate the conveyer 56 toward the bin 28. If material such as cement has been deposited inthe receptacle 6, audit is desired to deposit said material into the storage bin 29, then the friction drum 58 is,

moved on the face of the friction disk 59 to a point opposite its former position on said disk relative to theunloading of the material from the conveyer 56 to the bin 28, and the conveyor 56 will then be moved in the direction toward the bin 29, so that the cement which has been deposited on said conveyor will be deposited in said bin 29. When it is desired to deposit material into the mixer 36 from either or both of the bins 28 or 29, the slide daii'ipers 34 of the discharge spouts 33 are manipulated, and the material is deposited into the receiving trough 35. i After the material has been mixed in the mixer, the product therefrom is then deposited intothe hoisting bucket 32, and the material is then carried to its placeof discharge. The discharge openings 11 of the receiving leceptacle 6, being regulated by the closures l3, i provide means for allowing the requisite amount of material to be deposited on the endless belt 26, which amount of material conveyed bysaid belt is the amount to be carried by the elevator 42. This regulating of the amount to be discharged from the receptacle 6 is very essential, owing'to the, fact that some materials weigh very heavy as per quantity, and the lifting or conveying load can thus be thereby regulated.

As shown in Figs. 5, 6 and 7, this improved device can be used on railway cars, and will be very desirable in railroad construction work such as the building of roadbeds, the filling up of ditches. Tn connec-* tion with this Work, the cars 82 have a receiving receptacle 83 formedtherein. At the lower endof each receptacle of each ear is 'formed a pair of discharge openings 84. Pivotally mounted-to each of said openings is a closure 85.

Mounted n each car 82, and arranged" horizontally between the discharge o enings is an endless chain belt 86 on which is e. distributing conveyor 101.

mounted a series of buckets 87 Said chain, at one end of the car to which it is mounted, is in'clincd upward'l and over a pair of sprockets 88, then dbwnwardly and under idle sprockets 89, passing in anapproximate horizontal plane beneath the axles 90 of the car wheels 91, then passing upwardly around another pairof s rockets 92 mounted at the op )osite end of t m car to said sprockets 89.

' hen' a number of cars havingthis im- -per cars, such as 96, thereupon so that the material which is conveyed in these cars, such as fill-in material, can be dumped into the conveyer cars 82. v

In order to form an approach for the cars 96 to be mounted on the cars 82, an approach car 97 having inclined trackways 98 is cou'-.

pled to the last car 82. Said approach car has an inclined extension 99 which is adapted to rest at one end on the main rails 100.

The forward car 82 has mounted theretoby supporting rods 102', atits forward and, One end of said conveyor 101 is adapted to be under the A upwardly inclined end of the conveyer 93 of said forward car- 82.

It is now readily seen that when a number of loaded hopper cars 96 have been shunted on top of a number of conveyer cars 82, the contents of said hopper cars are dumped into the receptacles 83 of said cars 82. The closures 85 of the forward car are then opened and'the material is conveyed onto the conveyer 93 of said forward car, said conveyer, of course, being set in motion by a motor, such as. 103. The conveyor is moved upwardly and over the sprockets-88, and the contents therefrom are dumped onto the dis tributing conveyer 101. This conveyer 1'01 has power applied thereto by the chain belt 104.

c When the first car has been emptied, the second car can be operated upon, and the material conveyed therefrom Wlll be dumped onto the conveyer 93 of the preceding car. Whenthe second car has been emptied-,the

third car can be worked on in like manner,

and so on u'ntil'the' entire number of cars which are coupled together can be emptied one conveyor to another until the me as a serial is finally deposited on the distributing Q Meyer 101.

As the embankment of thie railroad bed i;

extended from the dumping of material from the distributing conveyer 101, the main rails 100 are laid out on the embankment so the conveyor cars and distributing conveyor can be moved up in order that the unloading end .of the distributing conveyer will always I be adjacent the edge of the embankment.

This improved device, as applied to railwav cars, will facilitate the unloading of the hopper cars and their n'iaterial as the loaded hopper cars, when shunted on top of the conveyer cars, can be immediately emptied into the conveyor cars, and can be immediately removed and taken to the place of refilling. The conveyer cars thus serve a temporary place, ()f storage for the mate rial until. it is finally (tlischarged onto the distributing com-'eyer;

What I claim is: 1. In a combined receiving and discharging receptacle, a regulated discharge opening therefor, a door for said discharge opening, a support'for said door, and a movably mounted platform located below said discharge opening, said door when swung wide open adapted to rest on said support.

,2. In a; combined receiving and discharg- 111 receptacle, a discharge opening therefor, a ownwardly swinging door for said open- .ing, means for regulating the swinging movement of said door, a moving platform located beneath said discharge opening, and a support adapted to support said door and prevent saiddoor from being swung wide open. 1 A

In a vehicle, a combined receiving and discharging receptacle, a regulated discharge opening for said receptacle, a door for said discharge opening, amovable platform lo end engaged beneath said platform, and 55 trackways located above said receptacle, said trackways being for the reception of a loaded vehicle. p

EDWARD W. SHUTT. In the presence of- M. C..HAMMON, H. G; FLETCHER.

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