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Patented June 17, 1890.

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CHARLES S. SCHENCK, OF NEW' YORK, N. Y.

MEANS FOR CONVEYING OR TRANSFERRING COAL, 84C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0.43o,23e,1ated June 17,1890.

Application led October 29, 1888. Serial Nox 289,424. (No model.)v

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. SCHENCK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Delivering or Transferring Coal, Grain, Sand, or other similar Material, of which the following is a speciication.

My invention is an improvementin means or apparatus for delivering coal, grain, sand, or other material from vessels or other depositories, and is designed more particularlyto provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive .apparatus by which cargoes of coal, grain,

sand, or other material may be discharged at various points of delivery or transferred in elevators or other structures, or by which ocean steamers or other vessels may be loaded or supplied with coal at a much less expense than has heretofore been possible, and whereby such substances as those above named may be handled with economy of time and labor.

The invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts disclosed in the following speciiication, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, and in which similar letters of reference represent like or equivalent parts wherever found throughout the several views.

Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section of a coal-barge provided with my improve# ment. Fig.'2 is a top plan view of one of thev conveyers and elevators employed by me. Fig. 3 1s a transverse vertical section on the line a: a: of Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a view of certain details of construction; and Fig. 5 is a section on the line 'y y of Fig. l, looking toward the bow, and on an enlarged scale.

Although I have herein shown and described my invention as applied to a barge for the 'purpose of discharging coal therefrom, it is sprocket-wheels D3, journaled at the angles of the troughs, each of said troughs forming` as shown, a continuous inclosed passage, in which the endless conveyer moves. For the purpose of illustrating these parts the side wall of the trough in Fig. l is removed.

Referring now to Figs. 1 and 2, E represents two elevators consisting of double shafts E and E2, united at each end, which elevators l correspond with the troughs in the bottom of the barge, with which they communicate, as shown at G, and each of these elevators is provided with a conveyer similar to those within the chutes or troughs B, which are arranged to travel over suitable sprocket-wheels D3, placed at each end of the elevators. A portion of the side walls of one of the elevators in Fig. l is removed, so as to show the conveyer, and the sprocket-wheel is shown in dotted lines. The elevators may extend to any desired height, and may besupported in any preferred manner, the best arrangement being probably that shown in the drawings, wherein the connection between the elevators and the conveyers in the bottom of the barge is made near the stern, the elevator being then carried forward and upward over the bowl to the desired height.

Attached to the discharge end of each of the elevators is a spout or tube D', which may be so connected as to admit of its being swung around, as shown in dotted lines,

whereby the coal or other substance may be A IOO longitudinal compartments, each converging to the troughs B, thus causing the entire load to gravitate toward these troughs, which are provided with openings in the top controlled by gates K, each of which is provided with a rack-bar K on the under side thereof, which is engaged by a gear-wheel L, journal'ed beneath the hoor at the top of the trough and operated by a pinion through the agency of a shaft L2, which extends above the deck, and is provided with a hand-wheel at the top, by meansof which the shaft may be turned toopen or close the gate. These gates are arranged to move upon rollers k, or arranged to form a movable support for'the gates in any desired manner. It is obvious that the gates K anywhere along the bottom of the vessel may be opened to discharge the cargo into the trough B from any particular part of the barge or from all parts of it at once, as may seem desirable or necessary; and it is also evident that the barge may be divided transversely into separate compartments, each of which may be filled with a different substance, which may be unloaded separately, if desired.

The conveyors and elevators will be operated by a belt M, which runs from the drivewheel M of the engine, by which power is supplied to a pulley N upon the main shaft N', these two latter parts being shown more clearly in Fig. 5. Mounted upon the main shafts N is a gear-wheel N2, which engages with a gear-wheel O on the counter-shaft O, and upon this counter-shaft is also mounted two clutch-pinions 0 o, which engage, respectively, with corresponding gear-wheels o o', mounted upon shafts o2 o2, by which sprocket-wheels D D in the bottom of the elevator-shafts are operated. The clutchpinions o o are operated or thrown in and out of connection with the gear-wheels o o by means of levers O2 O2, and by this means either one or both of the elevators may be operated at pleasure. All the parts described in this paragraph, except belt M and drivevwheel M are shown in Fig. 5 in dotted lines.

There are also mounted upon the main shaft N clutch-pinions P P, which engage with corresponding gear-wheels P P,mounted on shafts P2 P2, by which the sprocket-wheels D D in the aft end of the conveyers are operated; and, as in the case of the elevatorshafts above described, the clutch-pinions P P may be thrown in or out of connection with the gear-wheels P P by means of. the levers R R, and thus either or both of the conveyers in the troughs B may be operated when desired.

The lower end of each of the elevator-shafts is in communication wit-h one of the troughs B, as hereinbefore stated, the end of the elevator-shaft being placed just within the trough, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5, and the bottom and side of the trough being cut away and provided with a passage, as G, which empties into the base of the elevator-shaft.

The operation is as follows: The barge being filled with coal or other material, the gates K are opened by turning the hand-wheels L3 at the top of the shafts L2,` the gates moving easily upon the rollers 7c. The conveyers and elevators are then put in motion, the conveyers in the troughs B moving in the direction of the arrows S S and those in the elevatorshafts in the direction of the arrows V V. The coal is moved rapidly along the lower part of the trough B till it comes to the passages G, communicating with the elevatorshafts, when it drops into the bottom of said shafts, and is taken up by the conveyers within the elevator-shafts and carried to the top thereof, where it is injected into the spout or tube D from which it is automatically discharged, either at the front, sides, or rear of the barge, into any receptacle prepared for it and at almost any desired altitude.

It will be understood that my invention is not limited to the use of two conveyer-troughs and two elevator-shafts, as it is evident that three or more :might be employed without departing from the spirit of my invention, it being only necessary to alter the gearing so as to correspond with the number of conveyer-troughs and elevator-shafts employed. Neither is my improvement limited to any particular form of conveyer, the chain-links c and plates c .being employed only for purposes of illustration and description. It is probable that a bucket conveyer or carrier would be preferable in the elevator-shafts to the jform shown, as it would not be so liable to clog while lifting coal, grain, sand, or other loose, lumpy, or granular material on a steeply-inclined trough, while for the flight-conveyer the form shown is probably the best.

In my Patent, No. 424,937, dated April l, 1890, I describe, illustrate, and claim certain devices for opening and closing gates leading from the hold of a vessel to a trough running along its bottom. In this application I do not claim what is claimed in said patent.

Having fully described my invention, its construction and operation, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A storage-vessel for coal and other substances having a series of troughs, each constituting an inclosed passage approximately rectangular in outline and having one part thereof along the floor of the hold, in combination with a series of endless conveyers traveling in said passages, a series of inclined floors I-I, dividing the lower part of the hold into hopper-like compartments and guiding their contents into said troughs, a series of gates opening and closing communication between said compartments and said troughs, respectively, a series of endless inclosed elevators supplied by said conveyers, gearing for driving said elevators and conveyers, and a series of spouts supplied by said elevators and serving to discharge the coal where needed, substantially as set forth. l

2. The combination, in an apparatus for IOO IIO

conveying or transferring coal or other substances, of a storage-vessel having longitudinal hopper-like depressions in its bottom, a Series of ight-conveyer troughs, as B, provided with endless conveyers, a series of elevators, as E, consisting of separate shafts E and E2, united as shown, and provided with an endless oonveyer, said elevators and conveyers being in communication and provided with sprocket-Wheels, by which the endless convey'ers are carried, an engine and oonnecting-gearing consisting of a main shaft, as N, provided with a gear-Wheel N2 and oluteh-pinions P P, operated by levers R R, the gear-Wheels P P', in connection with which the eluteh-pinions P P operate, said gear-wheels P being mounted upon the shafts P2, by which the sprocket-Wheels D ofthe fiight-oonveyers are operated, and the gearof New York and State of-New York, this 245thl day of October. A. D. 1888.

CHARLES S. SCHENCK.

Witnesses:

DANIEL E. DELAVAN, D. ELWELL.

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