US704450A

US704450A - Ice-runway.

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Publication number: US704450A
Application number: US9476902A
Authority: US
Inventors: Frederick H Eichhorn; Charles H Eichhorn; Frederick P Dernell
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1902-02-19
Filing date: 1902-02-19
Publication date: 1902-07-08
Anticipated expiration: 1919-07-08

Description

No. 704,450. Patented luly 8, |902.

. F. H. & C. H. EICHHORN &. F.v P. DERNELL.

ICE RUNWAY.

(Application led Feb. 19, 1902.)

(No Model.)

IINTTRD STATES PATENT OFFICE.`

FREDERICK H. EICHHORN, CHARLES H. EICHHORN, AND FREDERICK P. DERNELL, OF ATHENS, NEW YORK.

ICE-RUNWAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 704,450, dated July 8, 1902. Application led February 19,192, Serial No. 94,769. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern: l

Be it known that we, FREDERICK l-I. EICH- HORN, CHARLES 1I. EICHHORN, and FREDER- ICK P. DERNELL, citizens ofthe United States, and residents of Athens, in the county of Greene and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Ice-Runway, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in runways or chutes for transferring cakes of ice from an elevator or the like to an ice-house or to a vessel; and the object is to provide a runway so constructed that the ice cakes may be directed at will to different compartments or rooms of an ice-house or to different parts of a transporting-barge or the like.

XVe will describe an ice-runway embodying our invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding` parts in bothtigures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an icerunway embodying our invention, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof.

Referring to the drawings, A designates what may be termed a section of the main runway, and B a section of a shunt-runway. The runway A consists of the side rails 1, connected by cross-strips 2, and extended longitudinally of the runway on these cross-strips 2 are the slats 3, consisting of metal or other suitable material. The shunt-section B consists of the side rails et, connected by. crossstrips 5, on which are secured the longitudi- Daily-disposed slats 6. The upper end of the section B has swinging connection with a hanger 7, connected to the section A. As here shown, the hanger 7 is provided with eyes 8 to receive the Vhook 9 on the end of the section B, and arranged upon the horizontal portion 10 of the hanger are the curved portions of the slats or strips Arranged in the section A is a trap consisting of slats 12, connected at the lower end to a cross-bar 13, which has hinged connection with the side rails 1 ot' said section A. The opposite ends of these slats 12 rest when the section A is in use upon a cross-piece 13, secured to the under sides of the side rails 1. The slats 12 are connected near the front by a cross-piece 14, and the trap-section is raised and lowered by means of a crank-shaft 15, having bearings iuboxes 1G, secured to the side rails 1 of the section A. From one of the ends or journals of this crank-shaft an operating-handle 17 extends.

In operation, assuming that the ice is to be slid along the chute 8 and its' several other connections, it is placed from an elevator or the like on' the upper end :c ofthe chute. At this time,of cou rse, the trap 12 will be closed. After discharging a number of cakes of ice along the chute 8 it may be desired to discharge a number of cakes along the chute B to a different room or a different place of storage. Therefore the attendant by drawing downward on the handle 7 will cause the trap 12 to be moved upward to the position indicated in Fig. 2, when of course the ice will pass down upon the section B of the runway. As the section B has hinge connection with the other section it is obvious that said section B -may be raised and lowered, as desired, or as the pile of ice increases in the ice-house.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. An ice-runway comprising a main runway, a shunt-runway having swinging connection with the main runway, slat connections for-directing ice from the inlet end of the main runway to the shunt-runway, a trap mounted to swing in the main runway and normally forming a portion of the bottom thereof, and means for elevating said trap to permit the passage of ice from the main runway to the shunt-runway, substantially as specified.

2. An ice-runway comprising a mainrunway= consisting of side rails and bottom slats, a hanger on said main runway, a shunt-runway having swinging connection With said hanger, slat connections fordirecting ice from the inlet end of the main runway to the shuntnames t0 this specification in the presence of Io runway, a trap mounted to swing in the main two subscribing witnesses.

runway and normally formino* a portion of 1 the bottom thereof, a crankshaftav havingi Swingin" connection with the main runway and engzging against the under side of the i f FREDERICK P' DERNELL trap, and a handle on said crank-shaft', sub- Witnesses:

stantially as specified. EDWARD A. GIFFORD,

In testimony whereofv we have signed our OLIVER G. PORTER.