US819759A - Warehouse machinery for unloading ships. - Google Patents

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PATENTED MAY 8, 1906.

G. H. HULETT.

WAREHOUSE MACHINERY POE UNLOADING SHIPS. I

APPLICATION FILED JAN.18,190-3.

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PATENTED MAY 8, 1906 GLH. HULETT. WAREHOUSE MACHINERY FOR UNLOADING SHIPS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 18, 1905.

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No. 919,759. PATENTED MAY 9, 1906.

G. H. HULBTT. WAREHOUSE MACHINERY FOR UNLOADING SHIPS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 18, 1905.

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GEORGE H. HIlLETT, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO WELLMAN- SEAVER-MORGAN COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

WAREHOUSE MACHINERY FOR UNLOADING SHIPS- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. May 8, 1906.

Application filed January 18, 1905. Serial No. 241,682.

' suchas will enable t ers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to im rovements in warehouse machinery for u oading ships, the object of the invention being to provide improvedn achinery which will permit the cargo of a ship to be conveyed through any of the openingp in the side of a warehouse and deposited t erein; and the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation, illustrating my imrovements. Figs. 2 and 3 are enlarged roken side views. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line m a: of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a view showing the manner of supporting and shifting the tracks 21. Fig. 6 is a detail view showing one of the shifting-supports for the tracks 21.

1 represents a warehouse having openin s in one side throughout the warehouse and a jacent to a dock 2, and 3 represents a ship beside the dock.

In the warehouse a traveling crane 4 is located andprovided at one end with wheels 5 on the lower side of the crane, supported on a rail 6, and the wheels 5 at the other end of the crane adjacent to the dock are on the top of the crane and mounted on arail 7, and the crane between its longitudinal girders has a track 8 and is openbetween the rails of the track, permitting a trolley 9 to travel alon the same and support a suspended clam-shell bucket 10 or other apparatus for conveying material from the ship or to the same. On the dock 2 beside the warehouse 1 a crane 11 is located and comprises a. horizontal frame in the same horizontal plane as crane 4 and provided at its inner end with wheels 12, mounted to run between rails 13 on the outside of the warehouse, and the other end-of'the crane 11 is supported by a standard 14, having wheels 15 at its lo wer end, running on tracks 16 on the dock, and it will be seen that this crane 11 can be moved along the dock to any opening in the side of the warehouse to aline with crane 4.

The crane 1 1 is provided with open tra cks 21, which can be made to aline with the tracks 8 of crane 4 and with tracks in a boom 19. The boom 19 is made to telescope Within'the frame of the crane 11 and is properly sup} ported and guided by means of rol ers 17 and 18, journaled in the crane 11 When all of said tracks are in alinement, the trolley 9 can move from the outer end of boom 19to the inner end of crane 4 and convey material from the ship to the warehouse, or vice versa.

For the purpose of causing the tracks 21 to roject through the openings in the Warsouse and aline with the tracks 8 in' the latter or to move said tracks out of alinement with the tracks8 in the warehouse and the tracks 20 in the boom, said tracks are so mounted that the can be shifted both laterally and longitu inally. To accomplish this, the tracks 21 are connected with the frame of crane 1.1 by means of swinging brackets 24, one end of each bracket being pivotally connected with the framework of the crane and the other end having a pivotal connection with a track-rail 21. It will be seen that with this construction each track-rail 21 can be moved in the are of a circle, causing said rail to be shifted longitudinally through an,

opening in the warehouse and also shifted laterally into or out of alinement with the rails 8 in the warehouse and the rails 20 in the boom. The different ositions to which the track-rails 21 can he s 'fted is clearly illustrated by the full lines and dotted lines in Fi 5.

)n dock 2 I have illustrated a number of tracks 22 for cars 23, and it will be understood that crane 11, with its boom 19, and the trolley 9' can be employed to convey material from the ship to the cars or from the ears to the ship.

The movement of cranes 4 and 11 is controlled either by an operator on the trolley or on the dock-level, and I do not restrict my-' self to any particular means for operating them.

In operation the bucket 10 or'other con veyer enters the hold ofthe ship), receives its load, and is elevatedto a heig t abovethe upper'deck. Trolley 9 is then operated toltravel along tracks 20, 21, and 8 to carry the material to and deposit it in the warehouse,

" and as-thelatter becomes filled the cranes 4 and 11 canbe moved along from opening toopening in the side of the warehouse and the material distributed throughout or removed- "precise detailsset' forth, but consider myself iii-liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fallwithin the spirit and sage of myinVentionJ .I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let 'tersFaten't, is-

1'. The combination with a warehouse, or like structure, and a traveli crane therein, of a traveling crane outside-the structure,

and trolley-tracks on both of said cranes adapted to aline at openings in the structure.-

2. The combination with a warehouse or like structure, and a traveling; crane therein,- of a travelin crane outside the-structure adapted to aine'with the first-mentioned crane at 0' enings in-the'structure, a boom on the outsi e crane, and a continuous trolleytrack (in-both cranes and'theboom. v p 3. The combination with a warehouse-or "like structure, and a traveling crane therein,

of artr-a'veli crane outside the-structure adapted to ine with the first-mentioned crane at openings in the structure, 'a boom telescoping in-the outside crane, and trolleyparts' described without departing from 'aving full described my invention what 7 for'forming'a continuous track for the trolley-conveyor. j A

4. "The combination with a-warehouse or of' a traveling crane outside the structure, -wheels at oneend oliithe-outside cranesupported to run on the structure, a standard supporting the outer end of the outside crane, tracks, wheels on the standard mounted on cranes are alined at an opening in the'structure.

5. In an apparatus of the character-described, the combination with a dock, azw'arehouse orlikestructurelocated'adjacent to the dock, and a traveling crane in the structure, of a traveling crane outside the structure, su ported at one end on the dockandat its ot er end on the structure, a telescoping boom on the outside crane' adapted to be projected over a ship at the dock, trolley-tracks on the boom and cranes forming a continuous track when-the cranes are in alinement, a trolley on saidtrack and a hoistin and conveying bucket or conveyer, carried b'y-the trolley and constructed to receive and deposit-material 1at any point's'throughout the continuous trac In testimony whereof 'I have. signed this specification in'the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' GEORGE HL HULET'I Witnesses:

C. W. CoMs'rooK, HOWARD C; TOBEY.

the tracks, and trolley-tracks on both cranes adapted to form a continuous track whenthe =-tracks on both of the'craznes and oh the boom like structure, and-atraveling crane therein,

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