US650510A - Portable dump. - Google Patents

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No. 650,5!0. Patented May 29, |900.

T. J. KIMLER.

PORTABLE DUMP.

(Application led Jan. 12, 1899.) (No Model.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 650,510, dated May 29, 1900. Application filed January 12, 1899. serial No. 702,013. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS J. KMLER, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Dumps, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide improved means for receiving, hoisting, and dumping earth or other desired material or substance into a wagon, car, or other receptaele.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of elements hereinafter set forth,pointed out in my claims, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan of the complete machine arranged to receive, hoist, and dump earth. Fig. 2 is an elevation, partly in section, longitudinally of the machine. Fig. 3 is a crosssection of the machine on the indicated line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an inverted plan of the conveying and hoisting platform detached from the machine. Fig. 5 is aside elevation of a portion of the machine, showing lever and cable for repositioning the dumping-section of the track. l

In the construction of the machine as shown the numeral designates a base-frame of approximately-rectangular form, built up of beams and cross-bars rigidly connected. An auxiliary base-frame 11 is mounted in horizontal alinement with the base-frame 10 and is hinged thereto at one end and arranged to be turned upwardly and forwardly thereon, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2. Posts 12 are mounted on and rise from the side beams of the base-frame 10, and track- beams 13, 14, 15, and 1G are arranged in pairs in in clined planes and supported on the upper ends of said posts and the base-frame. Rollers 17 -are mounted between the' individual beams forming the pairs of track-beams and project upwardly from the uppermost plane thereof. Posts 1S are mounted on and rise Rollers 23 are mounted between the individual beams forming the pairs of track- beams 19, 20, 21, and 22 and project above the uppermost plane thereof in alinement with the rollers 17. Brace-beams 24 are mounted in inclined planes on and are fixed to the posts 12 1S between the 'track-beams and the base-frame 10, and the rear ends of the brace-beams project rearwardly from the posts 18 and are ehamfered to form stops for the pivoted track-beams to limit and determine the movement of dumping thereof. A platform 25 is mounted horizontally on rollers 26, mounted in the auxiliary base-frame 11, and said platform is formed with a board 27, fixed to and rising from its forward margin. A post 2S is fixed to and rises from the central portion of the forward edge of the auxiliary base-frame 11, and a gravity-operating hook 29 is pivoted thereon and extends rearwardly over and in temporary engagement with the board 27. Approaches 30 3l are provided at the sides of the platform 25, whereby teams and earth-Scrapers may be driven upon and away from the platform. A cable 32 is xed at one end to the lower face of the platform 25 and extends rearwardly therefrom to and around a sheave 33, mounted on and above the rear end of the base-frame l0. The cable extends from the sheave 33 to a point of attachment on the periphery of a drum 34, mounted rigidly on a shaft 35, journaled in the brace-beams 24. The shaft 35 may be driven inv any desired manner, either by a hoisting-engine or otherwise.` Locking-bars 36 37 are mounted on the lower face of the platform 25 and are arranged to enter longitudinally into staples 38 39 on and projecting inwardly from the track-beams 2O 21. A cable 40 is attached at onev end to the forward end of the track-beam 22, extends forwardly therefrom through an eye 41 on the track- Vbeam 16, and thence downwardly 'to attachment to the central portion of a hand-lever 42, which lever is fulcrumed at its lower end in one ofthe brace-beams and is arranged for oscillation longitudinally of the machine.

In practical use of the machine the parts are assembled and relatively positioned as shown. Earth is then deposited, preferably by scrapers, on the platform 25 until said platform is loaded. The shaft 35 then is rotated to wind the cable 32 on the drum 34 IOO and draw the platform up the inclined trackbeams, the hook 29 being rst released from the board 27 by hand to release the platform for travel. In the ascent of the platform the locking-bars 36 37 enter and traverse the staples 38 39 and lock the pivoted track-beams and platform together. In the further travel of the cable 32 the pivoted track-beams and platform are conjunctively tilted'or rocked, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, being temporarily connected by the entrance of the locking-bars 36 37 into staples 38 39, and the platform strikes a cross-beam 43 and jars the earth substance therefrom into `the Wagon or other receptacle provided therefor. The rotation ofy the shaft 35 is then reversed, the pivoted track-beams and platform repositioned, as shown, by man-ual actuation of the lever 42, and the platform permitted to run down the incline into the position illustrated, the hook 20 automatically catching and holding it in the proper position. The auxiliary base-frame may be folded on the incline and draft-animals attached to the forward end of the base-frame l0 to transport the machine.

I claim as my invention* 1.' The combination of the inclined track and rollers therein, the hinged track-section and rollers therein7 the pivoted track-section and rollers therein, the receptacle arranged 3o for travel on the track-rollers and means for locking the receptacle and pivoted tracksections together.

2. The combination of the track and rollers therein, a portion of the track being pivoted and provided With staples, a receptacle arranged for travel on the track-rollers and provided ivith locking-bars adapted to enter the staples and lock the receptacle and pivoted track-sections together.

3. The combination of the inclined track and the rollers therein, part of said track beingv arranged for oscillation and provided With staples, a track-section hinged tothe track and provided with rollers, a receptacle mounted for travel on the tracks, bars on the receptacle arranged to enter the staples,mech anism for drawing the receptacle upon and dumping the same, with the pivoted portion of the track and a lever and cable 'for repositioning the receptacle and pivoted portions of the track.

Signed by me at Des Moines, Iowa, this 3d day of December, 1803.

THOMAS J. KIMLER.

lvitnesses:

S. C. SWEET,v E. C. KLINE.

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