US842056A - Circular floor conveyer. - Google Patents

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No. 842,056. 0 PATENTED JAN. 22, 1907.

l J. G. BARR.

CIRCULAR FLOOR OONVEYER. APPLIOATION FiLEDJAN. 16, 1906.

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J; O.'BARR. CIRCULAR FLOOR CONVEYBR. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 16, 1906.

Q 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 Qmi ineoaea Zen of the United I its lower decks.

, of the floor of a ware of Washington, have invented certain new provide a second, to provide a floor conveyor that will transferring large several views.

'so mounted as to be UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

I JOHN o. BARR, or rmiil wiisumeron.

CIRQULAR FLOOR vCONVEYER,

Specification 01 Letters Patent.

' Annlicatiou filed January 16. 1906. Serial No. 296.418.

: Patented Jan. 22, 1 I E} To all whom it may concerrt:

Beit known that I, JoHN C. BARR, a citi- States, residing at the city of Tacoma, in the county of Pierce and State of such a movable circular floor-section is indicated. at A in Fig. 1, where it is constructed to extend through the warehouse-'W to the wharf B on-one side and the latform C on the other side. This movab e circular floor is constructed as indicated in Fig. 3, the floor-planking D being nailed to and carried on wood stringers E E, stren thened and shod by the steel channels F. hese stringto transfer, handle, or store freight or merers are mounted on fixed rollersfG G, and the c'handise' that may be moved or stored on or stringers E E are trussed and across floors of warehouses, wharves, platmeans of the floor-planking D, nailed thereto forms, and decks. and the truss-rodsH H, put in diagonally at The objects of my invention are, first, to proper intervals. The circular fiooriskept means of receiving freight ormer-- in'pla'c'e by means of the guide-rollers Lset at chandise from any means of transportation proper intervals topreve'nt the edges of the and delivering it onto a floor or across said movable platform from rubbingagainst the floor to other means' of transportation; fixedfloor" on either side. Thecircularfioor is moved or turned by means of the iniongear J, en aged witha fixed stringer o the circle.

and useful Improvements in Circular Floor Conveyers, of which the following isa specification.

My invention pertains to conveyers'used be level with a floor, wharf, or deck, said conveyerto be used for moving and transfer ring freight and merchandise. without interfering with the use of the floor for trucking or other purposes; third, to provide'a means for receiving, sorting, checking, storing, or 7 lots and ,quantitiesof as herein described and shown freight and merchandise, said means *beinga-ffl a circular floor conve or made to revolve by, any suitable means of operation, and, fourth," to provide a means whereby freight and mer chandise may be received, stored, checked, and sorted, transferred, and delivered with less labor, time, and expense than by the present methods of handling and trucking.

I attain these objects by means of the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a representation of a Warehouse, ship, and barge with my inventionlocated in each. Fig. 2 represents a warehouse with my invention located within the same. Fig.1 3 represents a cross-section of thefioor conveyer, showing its construction and means of operation. Fig. 4 represents a partial plan of a ship partially equipped with my invention, and Fig. 5 represents a cross-section of a ship equipped with my invention on The gear J .is'operated and the circular floor thereby turned in either direction, as desired.

v provides a oor conveyer on which freight or merchanship L, or from the ship to the car, or from eithership or carto the warehouse, or from the warehouse to the car or tothe ship. The circular floor conveyer thus forms a means whereby freight and merchandise may be received from onemeans of transportation and delivered onto a floor or across saidfloor to other means oftran orta'tion. The con"- veyer being'level with ti l other purposes.- The conveyer constructed and operated as described and shown will be useful for receiving, storing, sorting, and checking,'transferring, and delivering freight and nierchandizein large lots or quantities. The work by means of my invention can be done with a great saving of time, labor, and expense over the present methods of. henting a multiple of conveyers' within or Similar letters refer to similar parts in the rises a circular section My nvention com ouse, wharf, platform, or deck so constructed as to be level or flush with the floor, wharf, platform, or deck and i movable by turning in l a circular direction. The form and location 1 gear ont esideby belt, motor, or other mechanical power A circular floor constructed and'operated e flobrwillnot interfere with the use of the floor for trucking or braced by dise may be ransferred from a car K to a ICC - and shown warehouses-ff through ewer'ehouse a number of cars of freight may be so handled simultaneously and as festas it can be received on board otherm'ea'ns of transportation on the opposite -My invention is also designed to be.

side. used on the decks of ships and berges, where it may beinstalled and operated as described In using my invention on ships andibarges I purpose not only'using a circular floor con- I the entire radius of the circle on w hich they i filled until all are loaded. By means of these are constructed, thus forming :1 disk or turret form of floor.

l-purposewhere' desirable to inclose these circular floors with'walls N on the outer circle of the floors and to divide the space inclosed into compartments by'meens of radial Walls 0. A hatch P is provided in the floor of one "of the compartments of each u per turret, so the lower turret ma first be fi ed.

In loading a vessel the lowest turret is first filled, each compnrtment bein'g filled singly and'the conveyer turned round until all are; full, Whenthe next turret above may be like isc separate compartments the freight can he loaded in separate lots or shi ments consigned to different ports and )e accessible Without disturbing any other portion of the cargo. To accomplish theresult. last men- .tioned, I purpose intro iu'cing side hatches Q in the angles between the turrets.

Doors R, opening into'nny orall of the compartments, give access to each from these nnglcspaces, and any compartment may thus he unloaded without disturhingthc others.

For the shipment ofcocl, ores, grain, send. or gravel the-conipcrtments mcntionedmey be constructed with iloors inclined toward the doors-opening into the side hatches, as indicated at thus causing the contents to gravitate toward the h utch when the door is opened, fronrwhcrc it can be hoisted, end

'ierehy save the c-xpenseof shoveling that hind of freight. i

The above mentioned and described use of turrets w-ithcom artments in connection with my circulsr-iioor-convcycrinvention is pplioeble to hips and barges of one orimorc deck it to he observed the-ti do not uscof compartments strictly-l ert or v invention but mention the us 1 V i y 1 I I r them to show their practical use and application to my newlyinvented circular floor conve er 1 am aware that prior to my invention other platform conveyors having straight and circular' movements have been used; but

my conveycr isdesigned to run flush or level with the floor and is made ri 'd and of suflic ient strength to receive an convey heavy loads and in this regard is novel, inasmuch as it differs materially from previous inventions of this character.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by' Letters Patent, is

1. A circular fioor conveyer, comprising a .circulnr traveling floor set level with a. floor or deck, said floor constructed with stringers and truss-rods, and said stringers mounted -tp travel on fixed rollers, guide-rollers at the side of the outer stringers and c pinion-gear engaging a. fixed gear on one of said stringers f or turningscid circular floor conveyer substantially as described and set forth.

2. A circular floor conveyer comprising a circular non-flexible platform located and capable of traveling within 9. way on 0p 0- site sides of which, both within and outside of the circle described by the way, is a fixed flooring adapted to receive on either side of the platform a load carried by the same, substantially as described. 3. A circular floor conveyer comprising a circular non-flexible platform located and capable of traveling within a way on opposite sides of which-both within and outside of the c1rcle described by'the way is afixcd flooring adapted. to receive on either side of the platform a load carried by the same, suid platform being adapted to, travel in opposite directions as desired, substantially as set forth.

4. A circular floor conveyor, comprising a. circular platform adapted to travel in opposit-e directions as desired, and composed of metal-facedstringers, flooring secured to said stringers-end forming a rigid, non-flexible surface to the platform, truss-rods connecting a ud bracing the stringers-end fixed rollers suitably located to have said stringers travel thereon, substantially described.

ln test irnony whereof 'I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

A, F. EAsTMAN, G BULLARD.

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