US805842A

US805842A - Manure-carrier.

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Publication number: US805842A
Application number: US18841604A
Authority: US
Inventors: David B Cherry
Original assignee: Louden Machinery Co
Current assignee: Louden Machinery Co
Priority date: 1904-01-09
Filing date: 1904-01-09
Publication date: 1905-11-28
Anticipated expiration: 1922-11-28

Description

PATENTED NOV. 28, 1905.

D. B. CHERRY.

MANURB CARRIER.

APPLIGATIOF FILED JAN. 9. 1904.

2 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID B. CHERRY, OF KNOXVILLE, IOWA, ASSIGNOR TO LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY, OF FAIRFIELD, IOWA, A CORPORATION OF IOWA.

MANURE-CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 28, 1905.

Application filed January 9, 1904- Serial No. 188,416.

To ctZZ whmn it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID B. CHERRY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Knoxville, in the county of Marion and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Manure-Carrier, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the manure-carrier for which United States Letters Patent No. 577,722 were granted to me March 16, 1897; and my object is to improve the manner of suspending and operating a receptacle adapted for carrying manure, &c.,and dumping it at any point along a straight or curved track from which the receptacle is suspended and also readily raised and lowered.

Myinvention consists in the manner of conmeeting a receptacle with a fixed track so it can be readily raised and lowered to facilitate filling it and also dumping the contents therefrom, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a receptacle and means for supporting and operating it as required for carrying manure and such other matter as it may be desired to move thereby from one point to another. Fig. 2 is an end view of the receptacle and cross-section view of the track that may be straight or curved laterally and that shows the operative mechanism for raising and lowering the receptacle and lifting it to empty its contents therefrom.

The numeral designates a track that is designed to be connected with suitable supports in a stable and posts or frames outside of the building.

Roller-bearers 12, each provided with a central bore at its bottom, are swiveled to the end portions of astraight rigid bar 13 in such amanner that the roller-bearers can be turned horizontally in any direction relative to the fixed track. A roller provided with a flange at its outer edge is mounted at the top of each branch of the bearers 12, as shown in Fig. 2, or in any suitable way as required for traveling on the track 10. Washers 14:, having central bolt-holes, are placed on top of the bar 13, and screw-bolts 15 are extended through the coinciding holes in the bearers 12 and said Washers and the bar 13 and also through coinciding bolt-holes in hangers and all of said parts jointly and securely and detachably connected by means of the bolts 15 and nuts 16 on the lower ends of the bolts.

The hanger 17 at one end of the bar 13 is adapted to support a rotatable shaft, and the hanger 18, at the other end of the bar, is extended downward to support an axle of a wheel, as shown in Fig. 2. It will be seen that the bar 13 and the brackets 17 and 18 form a substantially right-angular frame in which the hoisting shaft or spindle is mounted, thus providing a fixed and stable support for said shaft. Arotatable shaft 19 is mounted in the bearers 17 and 18, and a receptacle 20 is suspended from the shaft by chains or ropes 21 in such a manner that the receptacle can be raised and lowered by rotating the shaft. An axle 22 is fixed to the lower end of the bearer 18 and a sprocket-wheel 23 mounted on said axle, and to the hub of said wheel is fixed ahand-wheel 24, and asprocketwheel 25 is fixed to the end of the rotatable shaft 19 and a chain 26 placed on said wheels in such a manner that by rotating the handwheel the ropes 21 can be wound upon the shaft 19 as required for elevating the suspended receptacle 20. vA ratchet-wheel 27 is fixed to the inner end of the hub of the sprocket-wheel 23 and a gravitating-pawl 28 pivoted to the bearer 18 as required to retain the wheelslocked and the receptacle elevated.

A frame composed of a straight bar 29, having right-angled bends at itsends, and short straight bars 30, fixed at their central portions to the ends of said right-angled bends, is pivotally connected with the ends of the receptacle 20 in such a manner that the open-topped receptacle can tilt, as required, to empty its contents when desired. A spring-latch fixed to the bar 29 engages the receptacle 20, as

shown in Fig. 1, or in any suitable way engages the bar 29 with the receptacle, so as to prevent the receptacle from tilting while being filled and moved from one point of the track 10 to another.

Having thus described the purpose of my invention and its construction and operation,

the practical utility thereof will be readily understood by persons familiar with the art to which it pertains.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a manure-carrier, a roller-bearer, having a flat bottom provided with a bolt-hole in the center of the bottom in combination with a straight bar and a shaft-bearer fixed to the under side of the bar by means of a screwbolt extended through coinciding perforations in the roller-bearer, the straight bar and the shaft-bearer to rotate on the bar in the manner set forth for the purposes stated.

2. In a manure-carrier, a straight rigid bar roller-bearers rotatably mounted on top at each end portion of said bar, a shaft-bearer fixed on the under side of each end portion of said bar, a shaft rotatably mounted in said bearers to extend parallel with the said bar, one of said shaft-bearers extended downward, an axle fixed to the lower end of the said extension, a hub having a fixed sprocket-wheel mounted on said axle, a sprocket-wheel on the end of the rotatable shaft, a chain on the said sprocket-wheels and means for rotating the sprocket-wheel on said axle, arranged and combined to operate in the manner set forth for the purposes stated.

3. A manure-carrier comprising an elevated track, a straight bar having roller-bearers swiveled on the top of its end portions to support rollers adapted to traverse the top of the track, shaft-bearers fixed to the under side and end portions of the straight bar, a rotatable shaft in said bearers on the under side of said bar, one of said fixed bearers extended downward and an axle fixed to its lower end to extend outward, a sprocket-wheel mounted on said axle, a hand-wheel fixed to the hub of said sprocket-wheel, a sprocket-wheel fixed to the end of the rotatable shaft, a chain on said sprocket-wheel, ratchet-wheel fixed to the inner end of the lower sprocket-wheel, a pawl pivoted to the bearer to engage the ratchetwheel, ropes fixed to the end portions of the rotatable shaft, an open-topped receptacle, a frame pivotally connected with the end of the receptacle and detachably connected with the ends of the ropes and means for locking the receptacle to said frame, arranged and combined to operate in the manner set forth for the purposes stated.

4. In a manure-carrier, a horizontally-disposed bar, roller-bearers mounted on the upper side thereof, and adapted to run on an overhead track, shaft-bearers afiixed to the under side of said bar, a shaft rotatably mounted in said bearers to extend parallel with said bar, one of said shaft-bearers being extended downward, an axle fixed to the lower end of said extension, a sprocket-wheel mounted on said axle, a corresponding sprocketwheel on the end of the rotatable shaft, a

chain on the said sprocket-wheels and means for rotating the sprocket-wheels on said axles, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

5. In a carrying device, a track, trucks adapted to run thereon, a bar swiveled to the trucks, brackets depending from the bar, an extension on one of the brackets, a shaft I0- tatable near the top of the brackets, a short shaft journaled in the lower end of the extended bracket, means for rotating the short shaft, and means whereby the movement of the said shaft is communicated to the upper shaft, substantially as described.

6. In a carrying device, a suitable track, trucks adapted to run thereon, a bar, bolts for swiveling the trucks to the bar, brackets depending from the bar, one of said brackets having an extension, a shaft journaled in the bracket, a short shaft journaled in the extension of the bracket, means for rotating the shaft, means for communicating motion of the said short shaft to the upper shaft and suitable connections wound on the upper shaft for supporting a receptacle.

7. In a carrying device of the character described, a suitable track, trucks supported thereby, a bar, bolts run through the truck and bar for connecting the said truck and bar and permitting the rotation of the truck with relation to the bar, brackets depending from the bar, one of said brackets having an extension, a shaft mounted to rotate in the brackets, a short shaft mounted to rotate in the extension of the bracket, a sprocket-wheel on the short shaft, a sprocket-wheel on the upper shaft. a chain connecting the sprocketwheels, means for rotating the short shaft, and flexible connections wound on the upper shaft for supporting a receptacle.

8. In a feed and litter carrier, the combination with a track, of a substantially rightan gular frame, brackets mounted upon the upper side of said frame and carrying wheels adapted to run on the track, an elevating-spindle journaled in the frame, a box depending therefrom, and means for turning the spindle.

9. In a feed or litter carrier, the combination with a track, of the substantially rightangular frame, the brackets carried intermediate the length of the frame and provided with grooved wheels supported on the track, the elevating-spindle journaled in the frame, the box depending therefrom, and means for turning the spindle.

10. In a feed or litter carrier, the combination with a track, of the substantially rightangular frame, the brackets carried intermediate of the length of the frame and provided with grooved wheels supported on the track, the elevating-spindle journaled in the frame, the box depending therefrom, the sprocketwheel on the end of the spindle, the counterspindle and sprocket-wheel supported at the bottom of the upright portion of the rightangular frame, the sprocket-chain connecting the aforesaid sprockets, the ratchet and dog engaging the same, and the crank-handle for turning the spindle.

11. In a feed or litter carrier, the combination with a track, of the substantially rightangular frame, the brackets pivoted vertically and carried intermediate of the length of the frame and provided with grooved Wheels supported on the track, the elevating-spindle I journaled in the frame, the box depending therefrom, and means for turning the spindle.

DAVID B. CHERRY. Witnesses:

L. N. HAYS, T. B. AMOS.