US883204A - Attachment for stables. - Google Patents

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PATENTED MAR. 31, 1908.

S. R. KIMBALL. ATTACHMENT FOR STABLES.

PPLI TION FILED MMLZB 1 07. A 0A 9 2SHEETS-SHEET 1.

A TTOR/VE Y5 No. 883,204. PATENTBD MAR. 31, 1908.

S. R. KIMBALL.

ATTACHMENT FOR STABLES.

rrnm non rum) 1511.2 1907. A A I 2 sums-sum 2.

A TTOR/VE Y5 I move UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SYLVESTER, RIG HARD-KIMBALL, OF SISSETON, SOUTH DAKOTA.-

Application ma ma as, 1001. Serial No. 304,788.

To all whom it may concern:

Be' it know n that I, SYLvas'mn .Rwnaan KnuuLL, a citizen of the. UnitedStates, re-

- siding at Sisseton in the county of Roberts and t Dakota, have inventeda ate of South newtand useful Attachment for Stables, 'of which the following is a specification.

Thisinvention has reference to improve-- ments m attachments for stables and is de-' signed to provlde .a means whereby the con-1 tents of the stalls-may be received In suitable receptacles and then removedfrom time to time at one single point.

The invention consists essentially .in a

series of conveyers arranged in pits at the' s, which conveyers lead ultimately to a loading conveyer arrangedfto back of the stal carry thematerial deposited on thelother convelyers to'a wagonor other means. ofretents of the stallsmay be thrown into the pits adjacent thereto upon the conveyers for a considerable period of. time until the conveyers are practically all loaded, and then .these'conveyers may be operated to carry the load thereon to a single point of delivery, whence another conveyer may carry the material to wagons, but 1n order that. the lastnamed conveyer ma not become choked by an excess of materla coming from the other conveyerasaid conveyer may be rovided with-means for operatmg it when t e other conveyers have been slowed down or stopped.

The invention will be fully understood from the followin detailed description taken in connection the accompan drawings forming part of this spec' cation, in which,---

Figure 1 is a cross section through a portion of a-stable showing the stalls and the conve ers adj acent thereto; Fig. 2 is a view,

partia y diagrammatic, showinglthe arrange of t ment of the delivery end e conveyer;

3 is a top plan view of the conveyer system; Fig. 4 is a partially sectional view of the transmission gea between two convey- 'ers arranged at right angles to eachother;

and Fig. 5 is a detail view of a modification.

Referring to the drawings, there is shown a suitable floor 11 beneath which are pits 2. arranged along rows of stalls 3 which, as contemplated by the system shown in Fi 3 'will extend along two parallel sides 0 the stable and across one end thereof. These pits may be provided with a suitable lining 4, and, if deslred, may be properly drained,

Provision is made whereby the con one end of although the means for draini not shown. Each pit is provide with doors or hinged covers 5 which may be so arranged that t ere is one door or cover for each stall, and these doors may be kept normally closed andonl-y raised when it is desired to deposit the contents of the stall in the pit. In each pit is arranged a conveyer 6 WhlGh may be of the ordinary endless type assing at each end over rollers 7 provided wit suitable journals 8 properly mounted in the walls of the pits 0r othegwise supported. The conveyers are each arranged to deposit their contents upon a conveyer running at right angles thereto, as indicated in Fig. 3; that is, there is one conveyer 6 extend] through the stab e and this is arranged to deposit its contents upon another conveyer 6 running alonglbehind the line of stalls across t e stable, and this latter conveyer 6 is arran ed to deposit .its contents up'on still a thir conveyer 6 running along back .of the line of stalls on the side of the stable opposite to the first-named conveyer 6. At the delivery end of the last-named conveyer 6 there is arran ed a supplemental conveyer 9, to be .hereina ter referred to, and

veyers 6 may be applied by means of a shaft 11 ca ing a pulley 12 which receives motion throug a be t 13 from any suitable source of power, and this shaft may carry onemember of a friction clutch 14, the other member of whichis carried b the journal 8 of the roller 7 over which t e delivery end of the last conveyer 6 of the series passes. This clutch may be manipulated b means of a suitable handle 15 w1thin reac of ano erator. Power being applied'through the elt 13, the conveyer 6 is made to travel in the proper direction and, acting as a drive belt, will rotate the roller 7 at its other end. Upon the journal 8'of this roller 7 is a bevel gear 16 meshing with another bevel gear 17 on a short transmission shaft 18 carrying a bevel gear 19 atits other end, and this gear 19 meshes with another bevel gear 20 on the journal 8 of the adjacent roller 70f the intermediate conveyer 6, and at the receiving end of this intermediate conveyer 6 there is another system of transmission ear, similarv to that described, b means of w 'ch motion is transmitted to t e first conveyer of the series most remote from the delivery end of the pits is s ams. cumm- 2mm. Patented larch s1,.1eos. 3

along the line of stalls 3 the series. The transmission gear is best shown in Fig. 4t.

The conveyer 9 is hinged at its lower end so that it may be placed upright in the stable near one wall thereof, or inclined at an an le,

passing through an opening 21 in the sta le wall and having its delivery end arranged to do osit its contents into the wagon 10 or otl ier conveyance. 'In order to manipulate this conveyer 9, there may be applied to the journal 8 of the roller 7 at its deliver end a suitable handle 22, shown in dotted 'nes in Fig. 8. Now, suppose that the contents of the stallshave been deposited on the constarte veyers for two or three da S, de ending on the size of the stable, and t at it s desirable to convey this material to suitable wagons. The system of conveyors is set' into motion after the conveyor 9 has been placed in proper relation with the wagon 10.

Sup ose, however, that the conveyor 9 is una le to handle thomaterial as rapidly as it is deposited thereon from the conveyor 6 the pits may be dispensed with and the con when running at full speed. This is quickly corrected by a suitable mani ulation of the lever 15 so that the speed of t e conve ers 6" may be reduced as desired and their do ivery proportionately checked until the overload on the conveyor- 9 is, disposed of, when they may be again speeded up to their normal rate.

In Fig. 5 there is shown a means whereby veyers are carried upon supportsabovo the floor of' the stable next to the side walls thereof, so that when not in use the conveyors may be turned up against 'the wall out of the way. For this reason these supports, indicated at 23, are hin ed at 24 in the stable structure so that they ma be turned u against the wall and there he d in an suita le manner.

the drawings the invention has been shown lar ol 1 diagrammatic and it will be understoo t atsuitable mechanism will be provlded for the various parts and supportqng means will be provided for the conveyors so that they will not sag between their ends, and any type of conveyor ada ted to the purposes 0 the invention whereby the con tents will bemaintained on the conveyor until the'discharge end, is reached, may be ptilized in the practical form of the inven- Referring to the doors or covers 5, it will be seen that they are hinged on a central line to yokes 25 which, in turn, are hinged or swept on to the doors or covers.

lifted as indicatedby dotted lines,

As the contents of each conveyer are deposited upon a pulley 29 hung from a truck 30 movable over the pits on an overhead track 31; The

doors or covers are located so as to receive most of the material and What is not deposited thereon may be readily scraped or means of the hooks the doors or covers 5 may be'engaged in any order and lifted at one end by the ropes and the material thereon be deposited in the conveyors in the pits,

NOW, by

the doors or covers being tilted as they are Flg. 1. It be understood that one pit may extend through the center of the stable, and also that the conveyors will be the type hav-' ing flexible sides to revent the material 35 from pressing against t e sides or walls of the pits.

I claim: 1. In a stable, the combination with a series. of stalls therein, of-pits arranged in operative relation to said stalls, interconnected conveyors in said pits, a discharge conveyer at the discharge end of the interconnected conveyers, and means whereby there may be imparted to the-dischar e con 5 I veyer a higher relative rate of spee than that of the other conveyors.

in said stable beneath the floor thereof and stalls of the stable, and pivots for the covers connected to the upper edges of the pits. and mounted to swing above the same, about which pivots the covers may be tilted while being raised from the pits, to cause material deposited on said covers to grayitate into the pits.

3. In a stable, pits arranged lon 1tud1-.

nally thereof and in juxtaposition to t o rear ends of'the stalls in said stable, beneath the floor thereof, conveyors housed in said pits and arranged to conve material placed thereon to a point of covers for said pits one located at each stall and constituting continuations of the floor ischarge, movable and stalls of the stable, pivotal mountings for the covers and means whereby the pivots of the covers maybe elevated above the floor but still in operative relation to the pits so that the covers may be tilted while being elevated to cause material deposited on them 5 to gravitate'in-to the pits.

4. In astable, a series of conveyors arranged in operative relatlon to the stalls and interconnected for simultaneous motion, an-

other conveyer extendible to the exterior of seam a the stable' and receiving material from the my own, I have hereto affixed my signature diszhar e end (pf the series of voonfveyers, in the presence of two witnesses. an a riction five or t e series 0 interconnected oonveyers arranged to vary their SUVESTEB RICHARD KIMBALL' 5 rate of speed without affecting the speed of Witnesses:

the delivery conveyer. HENRY HELVIO,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as LEO J. LUKANITSCII.

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