US740066A - Machine for conveying and loading crops. - Google Patents

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 740,066, dated. September'29, 190B. lApplioatiou tiled December 4. 1902, Serial No. 133,934. (No model.) A

To alZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK LESLIE WEB- STER, a citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Waialua, Island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii,` have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Conveying and 'Loading Crops and Merchandise; and I hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. Myinvention is designed principally for use on sugar plantations where main lines of railwayare established to differentparts of the plantation with portable railway-tracks branching ci from the main lines to convey the cane when loaded on cars from the fields to the sugar factory. The present method of loading the cars is by hand, the laborers picking up the cut cane and carryingit to and depositing it on the car, a ladder being used to gain the top. Myinventionisintended to do away with much ,of this manual labor and without adding the expense of laying special tracks orinterfering with the passage of canecars over the railways. My machine is mounted on a truck to run on the plantation-rail ways and is arranged to permit of empty canecars being hauled up an inclined track and over the platform, passing through the framework ot the machine, and down a similar inclined track on the opposite end.4 It is provided with cable-dro ms,any one of which may be connected at the will of the operator, by means of friction-clutches, with. their shafts driven by a suitable motor, such as agasolens-engine. These drums are preferably arranged in two sets, one set for working the cables on each side of the railway and each Y set consisting of two hauling-cable drums and one hoisting-drum with brake-band. On top of the frameworkare mounted two jib-cranes for the hoisting-cables. The cut cane in the field is bundled by laborers, the bundles beinghauled bythe cables toward the machine and then elevated by the hoisting-cables to a suitable height to clear and to swing over and.

be dropped in the desired' position ou the car, as will hereinafter more fullyappear.

represents a top plan View of my machine: Fig. 2 represents an endelevation ofthe same. Fig. 3 represents aside eleration of the same.- Fig. 4 represents a top `plan view of the platform of the machine mounted upon its cartruck. Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic illustration .of the apparatus, sh owing a preferred method of operating the cables.

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locked in any desired position, only the working position being shown in the several views- In transporting the machine it is turnedhori- L In the accompanying..drawings, Figure l.`

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table, which may be turned and wedged or zontally to a position at right angles to that shown. Upon the platform a are laid rails forming a track of the same gageasthe plantation-railways, from eachend of which a sec ward incline to connect the track on the platform with the track on which the-machine tion of portable track i -i extends on adown` rests. These inclined tracks are removable f and are provided with swinghiuged struts kk', 5o. (Shownin Fi".3.)' Upon theplatform a is secured a framework a', suitably braced and of suicient height and width to permit of an empty cane-car being passed through it. Upon thisframe a' is mounted a mast c, with its step m and stii leg l sup The mast c may beslightly iniined, as shown in Fig. 3, so thatthe cranes wiil tend to swing over the car to be loaded.v The platform a is extended outside of the frame a' o'n two opposite sides, one of which extensions supports porting two booms or jiircranes b and b'.

Y the gasolene-engine or other motor r gearedl to run the drum-shafts tu and zr', and on the other extension is located a Water-tank q, which not only tends to balance the platform, but supplies the water for cooling the enginecylinder, the water circulating through pipingplaced above and below the frame a' and con nccting the tank q with the water-jacket of the engine g. vUpon the shaft H: are loosely mounted the hauling-cable drums d d' and the hoisting-cable drum e, any one ofwhich may be caused to revolve with the shaft w by its friction-clutch operated by the lever y, y',

or y2. (Shown in Fig. 3.) The hoisting-drum e is alsoprovided with a brakediand z. The hauling-cables from the drums cl rl' pass up over the sheaves r1" and are Vrun out and attached to the bundles of cane to be pulled toward the machine. The hoisting-cable passes 11p-from its drum e. over the sheaves ni, n3, s', and n5 at the outerend of the boom` b. These drums and cables being for use on the motor side of therailway, a duplicatoarraugement is provided for working on the opposite side,

(shown in Fig. 1,) thehauling-cables from the drums d? cl3 passing over the sheaves yn "13 and San' r2, respectively, and the hoisting-cable from SSV `it drum e runs overoneof thesheavesn2 then ove Akn, s, and n at the endof the boom b', s'ands being single blocks, n TLS being plain sheaves, 'r and r' being sheaves whose frames. are uio nted to turn in a horizontal plane througnabout one hundred and eighty degreesfandpkri-aud rs being similar to r, but

arrange to turn in a vertical plane. .Under r, ers of the platform a are secured astings into which round head* ed screw-jachs fare placed to stien the platform when the. m` achine is in use. An awning t may be-attached to the frame a." to protect themotor from the weather. (Shown in Pig. 2.) The car-truck f is provided with toggle-jointed brakes operated by the lever c. (Shown in Fig. 4.) y i The mode of operation will be apparent.

vThe machine is run over the main track tothe the laborers, each sling holding several hun.

dred pounds of cane, the crane-heisting cables are used to pick up the bundies that are reasonably near the machine and raise them to a suitable height to swing clear.- ci the carstakes, aman turning and guiding the bundle, so that it may he dropped in the place and in the direction desired on tne car.Y A

illustrated in Fig. 5.

man Aat the tag-rope attached to the end of the hoisting-cable at the same time pulling on his rope diseugages the sling from the cane just. dropped and pulls the cable down and attaches another bundle. While this is be: ing done a second bu ndle is being hoisted and dropped into the car from thesecondjib-crane, these operations being repeated until the car is loaded, whereupon the car is pushed toward the main line and an empty car run through the machine to the loading position under. the cran es. The hauling-cables at the salue time are heilig r'un out and used to draw the bundles from a distance to where they maybe reached by the crane-cables. By

having two hauling-cables for working on each side of the railway they maybe arranged by a rope attached to their ends passing over a snatch-block anchored in the field, so that while one cable is hauling a bundle in it is at the same time pulling the other cable lout to be attached to another bundle of cane, as The machine and the cars may be moved by means of the power from the motor on the machine.

)Vhle I have described my machine as applied to the conveying and loading of sugarcane, it will appear that it maybe applied to any similar crop or may beused for the loading of stone, timber, or other merchandise.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire 'to se 'ure by Letters Patent, is C) 1. A machine for conveying and loading crops and thelike, having its platform mount ed upon Wheels arranged'in a circle andiaxled to the frame of its car-truck, such that the platform may be turned in a horizontal plane thereon, an elevated frame above the plat- ICO form for supporting at one end a nia-stand its boom, and a track on said platform having p inclined sections to connect with the track on which the machine rests; substantially as described.

2. A machine for conveying and lending crops and the like, having a rotary platform, atrack upon saidplatiorm and inclined rails to connect said `platform-tracl: with the track` on which the machi\. e rests, substantially as described. i

3. A machine of the kind described, turntabled onf;` s car-truck and having inclined rails provi ed with hinged supports; snbstan` scribed.

hine of the kind described, having a truc-; upon which the machine istnrntabled, a car-track on its platform, inclined rails with hinged supports and an opening`in` its frame which permits of a car being hanled\tz5 through said frame over the track on the plat form substantially as described. l-

f' 740,066 3 v l 3;@ :s moor mountedvon the platform for op- In testimony whereof IV have Signel my 'g erging the hauling and hoisting cables;`sub name t-.\th'is specification in the presence of san-aly `sdescrbed, l E two subscrhng witnesses.

EL l machine of the kind-described, llav- \\FRANK LESLIE WEBSTER. 5 ing-'abe hauling-cables n pairs, such that Witnesssil @ne one of them is hauling in thema in is A. A}\Wnsox,

ai; @e same `time pulling the other cable out. THOS. SBEAEMAN. l

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