US173847A - Improvement in dumping-scows - Google Patents

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D. DAILEY. DUMPING-SCO'W.

Patented Feb. 22,,1876.

Nv PETERS PHOTQ LlTHOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON. D. C,

UNITED STATES DANIEL DAILEY, OF NEW YORK, 'N. Y.

PATENT Orrrca.

IMPROVEMENT m DUMPING-SCOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,847, dated February 22, 1876; application filed January 22, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL DAILEY, of

the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Dumping-Scow, of which the followin'g'is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a topview, Fig. 2 a vertical longitudinal section on the line 0 c, Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a

7 vertical transverse section on line x :10, Fig. 2,

of my improved dumping-scow.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. 7'

My invention relates to an improved dumpiug-scow, from which the refuse may be more readily and conveniently dropped forsubmersion than in the present systems of scows; and it consists of a scow divided by a longitudinal center bulk-head and lateral bracewalls into compartments, which are each closed a by hinged bottom gates that are raised or dropped by chains winding on a top shaft.

In the drawing, A represents a dumping-- scow, which is dividedinto two symmetrical sections by a .center bulkhead, B, that extendslongitudinal shaft, E, is supported in central bearings of the. lateral walls, and operated by a hand-lever crank, Windlass, or other wind ing-up device. being retained by means of both gates, and being aifixed near the ends of the gates, serving to drop or close jointly both gates of a compartment. The gates of adjoining compartments on either side of the center-board may be connected to oneshaft, so that a certain number of compartments may be emptied simultaneously by releasing the shaft. The gates are a'suitable distance below the lateral braces of the scow, Which, together with openings at the after end of the scow, admit the entering of the'water, and thereby the sweeping of the same through the scow, which facilitates, when all the gates are dropped, the submerging of the refuse, and the carrying away of the scum or lighter parts. The smaller size of the-compartl'nents admits the easier handling of the gates, and thereby their readier and quicker emptying,

so that the scow requires a less number of I bands, and is attended to with greater facility and dispatch.

Having thus described my invention, I cl ai m as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-'- A garbage-scow, separated longitudinally by a close and transversely by open-work par- Witnesses:

PAUL G'oEPEL, T, B. MOSHER.

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