US841712A

US841712A - Traveling conveyer-crane.

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Publication number: US841712A
Application number: US34046806A
Authority: US
Inventors: John W Orrock
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1906-10-25
Filing date: 1906-10-25
Publication date: 1907-01-22
Anticipated expiration: 1924-01-22

Description

PATEN'IED JAN. 22, 1907.;

J. W. 'ORROGK. TRAVELING GONVEYER CRANE.

APPLiOATION FILED 001 .25, 1906.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 22, 1907.

Application filed October 25, 1906. Serial No. 340,468.

To aZZ whom it Wtwy concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN W. ORROCK, of the city of Montreal, in the Province of Q,ue bee. and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Traveling conveyer-Cranes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in traveling conveyer-cranes for handling coal, ore, grain, and the like.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient conveyer which will require onlya small amount of motive power and will operate under a variety of conditions. To accomplish this object, I provide a boot or hopper mounted on a truck adapted to travel on a suitable track. One end of a conveyer-mast is pivotally mounted in the boot, and the other end is supported by a carriage running upon a suitable elevated rail. The upper end of the conveyer-mast is provided with an adjustable hood and a pivotally-mormted deliverychute, into which a number of buckets, mounted on an endless chain, are discharged.

In the drawings, which illustrate my invention, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device in operation. Fig. 2 is a diagram showing the arrangement of tracks. Fig. 3 is a front view of the stock-pile bulkhead and shows the gates. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the conveyer-boot and truck.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the conveyer-mast, and 2 the boot or hopper mounted on a truck 3, running on a track 4. The track may, if desired, be sunk below the level of the surrounding ground in order to assist in delivering material to the boot by gravity. Coal or ore pockets 5 of the ordinary type are located on one side of the track 4, while the stock-pile 6 is located on the opposite side. 7 designates a train of cars on the track 8, located adjacent the track 4, from which the material to be delivered is discharged. An endless chain carrying the buckets 9 runs longitudinally over the conveyer-mast l and is mounted thereon in the usual manner, said chain being driven by a small motor or any other suitable power device 10. The asoending buckets pass into a hood 11 and discharge their contents into a chute 12, pivotally mounted at 13, so as to be angularly adjustable with respect to the carriage 14, which travels on the track 15, mounted on the coal-pockets 5. When it is desired to discharge material to the stockpile 6, the whole conveyer is moved along the track 4 onto the turn-table 16 and turned around to occupy the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, the carriage l4 traveling on the semicircular portion 17 of the track 15. The boot 2 is supplied with material through the chute 18 from the cars 7 or through the chute 19 from the stock-pile 6. Engines, cars, or any other receptacles standing on the track 20 may be readily supplied with material through the. adjustable chutes 21, mountedon the pockets 5, while the track 22 may be used for storage purposes.

A tightener 23 is fixed to the upper end of tiile mast for taking up the slack in the bucket- 0 am.

The stock-pile is built up behind a bulk- 4 head 24, provided with gates 25 for admitting the coal to the chute 19. If the source of power 10 be an electric motor, its current may be taken from storage batteries or from a trolley-rail 26, located below the rail 15, by means of a trolley 27. l

The operation of the device is as follows: Material of any kind may be fed from the car 7 or from the stock-pile 6 into the boot or hopper 2 and carried by means of the buckets into the pockets 5. When it is desired to store material in the stock-pile, the conveyermast is swung around to the position shown in dotted lines by means of the turn-table 16 and the buckets fed from the cars 7. The whole conveyer may be moved along the track 4 to load any part of the stock-pile or any one of the pockets.

The advantages of this device are numerous and will be readily appreciated by those skilled in the art of handling coal, ore, grain, or the like.

Having thus described my invention so that the same may be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which it appertains, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a conveyer device, the combination with a surface track of a truck mounted thereon, a boot or hopper mounted on said truck, a mast carried by said boot, an elevated track, 'a carriage supporting the upper end of the mast upon said elevated track, means for delivering material into both sides of said boot or hopper, and a bucket-chain adapted to discharge said material from the upper end of the mast.

2. In a conveyer device, the combination with a track of a truck mounted on said track, a boot carried by said truck, a mast a mast carried b mounted on said boot, an endless bucketchain traveling over said mast, and means for discharging material upon both sides of said track.

3. In a conveyer device, the combination with a track of a truck mounted on said track, a boot or hopper carried by said truck, said boot, an endless bucket-chain trave ing over said mast, a carriage supporting the upper end of said mast, means for driving said bucket-chain, and means for discharging material upon both sides of said track.

4. In a device of the class described, in combination with a series of pockets, a stockpile, and a track located between said pockets and stock-pile, a conveyer-boot running on said track, means for supplying material to said boot, and means for alternately discharging material into said pockets and stockpile.

5. In a device of the class described, the combination with a series of pockets, a stockpile and a track located therebetween, of a conveyer-boot traveling on said track, means for supplying material to said conveyer-boot, a mast pivotally mounted upon said boot, a bucket-chain traveling over said mast, means for driving said bucket-chain, and means for delivering material alternately to said pockets and stock-pile.

6. In a coal or ore handling device, a series of pockets, a stock-pile, a depressed track therebetween, a conveyer-boot traveling on said track, a mast pivotally mounted in said boot, an endless bucket-chain mounted on said mast, means for delivering coal or ore to said boot, a track located above said pockets and stock-pile, means for supporting the upper end of said mast upon said track, and means for delivering material alternately to said pockets or stock-pile.

7. In a coal or ore handling device, a series of pockets, a stock-pile, a depressed track therebetween, a conveyer-boot traveling on said track, a turn-table in said track, a mastpivotally mounted in said boot, an endless bucket-chain mounted on said mast, means for delivering coal or ore to said boot, a track elevated above said pockets and stock-pile, means for supporting the upper end of said mast upon said track, and means for controlling the supply of material from said stockpile to said boot.

8. In a coal or ore handling device, a plurality of pockets, a stock-pile, an elevated track connecting said pockets and stock-pile, a second track located between said pockets and stock-pile, a truck running on the second track, a conveyer-mast carried by said truck, and means for operating said conveyer to discharge material into either the pockets or the stock-pile.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN W. ORROCK. W'itnesses:

C. W. TAYLOR, E. R. MCKENZIE.