US851760A - Conveyer. - Google Patents

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PATENTED APR. 30, 1907.

L. O. KYLLO.

GONVEYER. APPLICATION FILED 0O'1'.29, 1906.

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is removably mounted a conveyer.

. more LORENST O. KYLLO, OF FARIBA'ULT, MINNESOTA.

CONVEYER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April so, 1907.

Application filed October 29, 1906. Serial No. 341,000.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LORENST C. KYLLO, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fari bault, in the county of Rice and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Conveyers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for conveying material, and particularly to such apparatus in which the conveyer is automatically dumped, rights itself and is locked in its righted position.

The object of my invention is to provide an apparatus of the class described, which will be efficient in operation, simple in construction and comparatively cheap in manufacture.

In carrying out my invention, a steel cable of suitable length is fastened at each end, the end at which the dumping is to take place being higher than the end from which the conveyer departs or at which it is loaded. On this cable run the wheels of a truck from which is suspended a carrier-frame in which The latter is held locked in upright position by suitable mechanism after loadin Above the point where the load is to he dumped is mounted a tripping mechanism by which the conveyer is automatically released from the frame in which it is rotatably and removably mounted; and when so released the conveyer is dum ed toward the side on which it is the eavily loaded. After dumping the material of which the conveyer is constructed causes the conveyer to right itself, and it becomes automatically locked in its upright position. The conveyer then returns to the loading point.

In the drawings illustrating the principle of my invention and the best mode now known to me of applying that rinciple, Figure 1 is an elevation showing t e conveyer in loaded position; Fig. 2 shows the conveyer in dumped position; and Fig. 3 is a sectional detail on the line A-A of Fig. 1.

I On the cable a run the wheels I) of the trol ley c from which is suspended the carrierframe (1 the rear arm e of which is pivoted at f and is held locked in place by the engagement of fin ers g, h with each other. The lower end 0 each of the arms 6, e is formed with an eye in which the trunnions 7c projecting from the rear and front of the conveyer m have a bearing. Thus, the conveyer is rotatably mounted in its carrierframe 11; and it may be removed from said frame by disengaging the fingers g, h from each other and swinging the rear arm 0 outwardly so as to free the said arm from engagement with the trunnion 7:.

To lock the conveyer in upright position, a latch 11 is pivoted at 0 to the front arm 0 and is controlled by the spring 7) which tends to force the toe (1 into the hole '1 formed. in the front plate 8 of the conveyer m. hen, however, the conveyerreaches the dumping point, the upper end of the latch it strikes against the spring 25 carried by the holder it which is adjustably mounted on the cable a; and the force of the blow serves to disengage the toe q of the latch n from the hole 1' against the tension of the spring p. 'Ilhereupon, the conveyer turns or dumps over toward that side upon which it is the more heavily loaded (Fig. 2.) The conveyor now recedes from the holder at and rights itself, and the spring 1) forces the too 9 into the hole '2, thereby locking the conveyer in place in its carrierframe.

In the preferred form in which my inven tion is shown embodied by the drawings, the conveyer is in the form of a wheelbarrow ,iIOVlitlOtl with a wheel 2, legs 3, handles 4 and body The handles and legs may be removed by unscrewing them from the toes 6, after removing the brackets 7; and the wheel and wheelarms 8 are also removable, thereby making it possible to operate the device with only the conveyer body 5, as a receptacle for the material. It is obvious that the weight of the wheel, handles and legs will assist in r ghting the conveyer after it has been dumped.

I claim:

1. In a conveyer, the combination of a wheeled receptacle provided with trunnions a carrier-frame formed with depending arms the lower end of each arm being formed with an eye in which engages one of said trunnions and one of said arms being mounted free to swing, whereby said receptacle is mounted free to rotate in and to be readily removed from said carrier-frame; a cable upon which said carrier-frame rides; locking means for holding said receptacle in an upright position and means for tripping said locking means to allow said receptacle to dump.

2. In a conveyor, the combination of a allow the Wheelbarrow to dump; the legs, Wheelb arrow; a earlier-frame in which said handles and Wheel of the latter serving to aid Wheelb arrow is mounted free to rotate and to in righting the same after dumping.

be readily removed; a cable upon Which said LORENST C. KYLLO. carrier-frame rides; locking means for hold- WVitnesses: ing said Wheelbarrow in an upright position; P. A. HANSON,

and means for tripping said locking means to GEORGE W. BATOHELDER.

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