US865611A

US865611A - Elevator-bucket.

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Publication number: US865611A
Application number: US37171907A
Authority: US
Inventors: Ira Orville Robbins
Original assignee: ELLIS GREENLEY
Current assignee: ELLIS GREENLEY
Priority date: 1907-05-03
Filing date: 1907-05-03
Publication date: 1907-09-10
Anticipated expiration: 1924-09-10

Description

No. 865,611. PATENTED SEPT. 10, 1907. I. O. ROBBINS. ELEVATOR BUCKET.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 3.1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IRA ORVILLE ROBBINS, OF MILLVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ELLIS GREENLEY, OF MILLVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

ELEVATOR-BUCKET.

No. 865,611. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 10, 1907. Application filed May 3, 1907. Serial No. 371,719.

To all whom it may concern: clamping bar 6 is drawn away from the base of the Be it known that I, IRA ORVILLE ROBBINS, a citizen grooves 4 and the inwardly turned extremities 8 of the of the United States, residing at Millville, in the county hook members 7 are effectively locked against acciof Columbia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented dental disengagement from the openings 9. The 5 certain new and useful Improvements in Elevatorshanks of the hook members 7 have a sliding movement Buckets, of which the following is a specification. with the clamping bar 6 and in the preferred construc- The present invention relates to a novel means for tion the clamping bar is in the nature of a tubular attaching elevator buckets and the like to the belts member and the shanks of the hook members telescope carrying the same without the use of bolts, rivets, or Within the ends thereof. It will thus be apparent that 10 similar fastening means. when the tension is released upon the belt 2 the clamp- The primary object of the invention is to provide an ing bar 6 can be forced against the base of the groove 4, attaching device which permits of the bucket being the inturned extremities 8 of the hook members thereby readily removed from or placed in position upon the released from engagement with the openings 9 and the belt without the use of tools of any kind, and which is hook members then moved outwardly beyond the ex- 15 peculiarly designed so that it is automaticallylocked tension 3, thereby admitting of the bucket 1 being deagainst accidental release when the device is in operatached from the belt. tion andthe belt is undertension. The manner of applying one of the buckets to the For a full description of the invention and the merits belt is just the reverse of that just described. thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details Having thus described the invention, what is claimed 20 of construction and the means for effecting the result, as new i reference is to be had to the o ow ng de c p o a d 1. In a device of the character described, the combinaaccompanying drawings, in which: tion of a belt, a bucket comprising a member having a Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a belt, roove formed therein, a clamping bar extending across the belt and serving to draw the belt within the groove, an elevator bucket bemg Shown as apphed thereto m and means carried by the ends of the clamping bar for .5 accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a engaging the bucket,

1 longitudinal sectional view through the bucket and 2. In a device of the character described, the combinaband. Fig. 3isatransverse sectional view through the tion of a belt, a bucket Comprising member having extension p the bucket groove formed therein, a clamping bar extending across f the belt and serving to draw the belt Within the groove, collespondlllg and hke P me 1e ened to m the and means carried by the ends of the clamping bar for 30 following description and indicated in all the views of producing a detachable and interlocking connection with the drawings by the same reference characters. the bucketspecificauy describing the invention the numeral 1 I In a device of the character described, the combinadcsignates an elevator bucket which is preferably of a belt bllcket corllpnsmga member i q with f h t 1 d b f a groove, a clamping bar ior holding the belt within the 5 ffnmed 0 5 Get ma 8119 an y 9 0 any i groove, and hook members carried by the clamping bar 35 tional type, and 2 the belt to Which the bucket is apand detachably engaging the bucket.

li d O id f th b k t 1 i f d ith an 4. In a device of the character described, the combinatension 3 fittino, against the belt 2 and having a groove tion of a belt, a bucket comprising a member formed with d dl t h d f h :1 groove, a clamping bnr serving to hold the belt within 4 P 111W2u y 916 I p01 0 t e the groove, and hook members having a sliding connection extension 3 pro ects upwardly as indicated at 5 in order with the clamping bar and detachably engaging the bucket. 40 to prevent the edge thereof from cutting 01' otherwise 5. In a device of the character described, the combinaiiijurin the belt. A clampin bar 6 i ili for tion of a belt, a bucket comprising; a member provided with d b R2 t th D 4 h o th a groove and having perforations formed therein, a clamp o e e 1n 0 efgwove ena mg 6 ing bar serving to retain the belt Within the groove, and bucket to the belt, and this clamping bar carries hOOk hook members carried by the clamping bar and provided members 7 detachably engaging opposite ends of th with projections received by the before mentioned open- 45 extension 3.

It will be Observed that the hook members 7 have the i 6. In a device or the character described, the comb1nat ti th r extended in Cu at 8 and 100861 tion or a belt, a bucket comprising a member formed with ex 5 e y a groove and also provided with perforations, a clamping received by openings 9 111 the extension Vhen the bar for retainingthe belt within the groove, and hook belt2is under tension as when the elevator is in use the members having 51 Sliding Connection With the pp ends of the clamping bar and detachabiy engaging the bucket, the said hook members being" formed with pro jections received by the before mentioned openings in the bucket 7. In a device of the character described, the combination of a belt, a bucket comprising a member provided with a groove and having openings formed therein, a clamping bar for retaining the belt Within the groove, the said clumping bar being in the nature of a tube, and hook members carried by the clamping bar and detachably engaging the bucket, the shanks of the hook members telescoping Within the ends of the tubular clamping bar and the said hook members being provided with projections received by the before mentioned openings in the bucket In testimony whereof I ziflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

IRA ORVILLE ROBBINS. [L. s.]

Witnesses Geo. W. HENRIE, WM. J. ECKMAN.