US933129A - Ash-handling apparatus. - Google Patents

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W. H. SMALLEY & E. HATTON. ASH HANDLING APPARATUS. APPLIOATION II- LBD 3111.28, 1909.

Patented Sept. '7; 1909.

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' ceptacles may be located may be dropped from the buckets or receptacles UNITED STATIESGRATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. SMALLEY AND EDGAR HATTON, OF HAVANA, ILLINOIS.

ASH-HANDLIN G APPARATUS.

933,129. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept; 7, 1909. Application filed January as, 1909. Serial no.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that we, WI LIAM H. SMAL- Lnr and EDGAR HA'r'rox, citizens of the United States, residing at Havana, in the county of Mason and State of Illinois, have inven cd or discovered certain new and useful Improvements in Ash-HandlingAp'pm r atus, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings. 1 Railroad round houses, or the approaches thereto, are generally provided between the tracks with pits into which ashes and cinders and sometimes the fires of the engines are dumped, and the accumulated ashes from these pits are usually subsequently shoveled into ash carsljfor removal. This requires considerable labor, and in handling the ashes and cinders they are sometimes spilled about so as to present an untid The present invention has for its object cage in the ash pit. Fig. 3 is a detail view illustrative of the top portion of the swing ing crane. a.

Referring to the drawings; 12denotes an ash pit in which will be located suitably suption beneath theengines. Adjacent, to the tracks is located a crane preferably coin rising a base or foot-block 16 of concrete 8 which may be set into the ground if desired) and to which preferably bolted a metal cap-plate 17 fitted forl the reception of the lower end of an up.- ri 1t mit iron pipe of suitable size and length to constitute the standard of a crane. The swinging. portion or boom of.

to provide convenient means for handhn ly consists of metal arms 19 bro ht to-" the ashes and cinder's from ash pits of the gther at their outer ends and attac ed at kind aboye referred to without requnin their inner ends by bolts 20 to a metal'block the ashes and cinders to be shoveled out b 21 fittill the C cu r S a da hand. [o the end the ash pits between the outer en 8 of the" arms 19 are 'supportedb tracks are pionded with rails tor the su inclined braces '22 the lower ends of whic port of recepta les for the ashes and cinders are attached by bolts 23 to a metal b ock M,

and I similar to the block 21, and through which block latv the circular standard 18 passes. Theblock 24 is held 11 .by a collar 25 attached to the' standar 18 by suitable set screw or set screws; and is similarly held up onsaid standard by a collar 26 either located directly beneath and in contact with said with an interposed lar 27.

cars or buckets oosely fitting in cages, and the latter are provided with wheels running on the tracks; so that the ash buckets or rein any desired positions beneath the engines to receive the ashes and cindcrs from the latter and which the engines directly into the said ash-buckets or receptacles. For cooperation with the buckets or receptacles there is provided a convenient hoisting dey loosely 1n the cage 15 and is formed of a sheet metal body angle-iron corner bars and central straps 29. At the said bucket and supported by said stra s 29 is a cross rod 30 on which are'hinged oors 31 forming thebottom of the bucket, said preferably cages in the ash pits et t0 and swung around over the ash cars on tracks conveniently near,- and into which ash cars the cinders and ashes in the buckets or receptacles may be dumped. To this end are preferably provided at their bottoms with swinging dumping doors which are held in place by spring catches which latter mayfibe released to per-" mit the dum ing doorsor bottoms of the buckets to fa l downward to dump the conbraced by hingestraps 32-yvhich run the full widths of the said doors. The bucket preferably considerably nar I bottom than at its to and this construction enables the doors to be made narrower, and

tents of the buckets into the ash cars.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of an apparatus constructed the present invention, the operation thereof.

would be. The h1nge-straps are provided attheir outer ends with catches 33 adapted ,to coiiperate with: spring latches or catches in accordance with and illustrative of end View of the bucket-receiving the upper block 21 The bucket 28 is of suitable size to fit provided with bottom of thebe located in any desired posibase or foot-block is 18 which will preferably consist of a the crane prefblock, 21, or in contact swinging 'block -or 001- doors being also preferably of'sheet metal i 105. .owet at its Set attached to the gides of the bucket or receptacle, and which spring latches or catches 34 may be released, when the contents of the bucket are to be dumped, by a bar or other suitable device in the hands of the attendant.

Thebucket or receptacle 28 is preferably provided at its ends with suitable hooks for engagement with ropes or chains -36 for connection with a suitable hoisting device. Said hoisting device preferably consists of a hook 07 supported at the end of a chain 38 runi'iing over the. pulleys 39, said pulleys being attached to a shaft 40 the outer end of which is journaled in a yoke l-l sup ported from the outer end of the crane arms 19 and the inner end of which shaft is journaled in the block 27 formed as a collar surrounding the standard 18, and which may. if desired, be an integral part of the block '21. Near the inner end of the shaft d0 a pulley 42 over which runs a hoisting chain 43 by which the hoisting device may be operated in a well-known manner by an attendant or workman. W hen the hoisting device is operated to lift the filled bucket or receptacle 28 to a desired elevation the. swinging portion or boom of the crane may be swung around to carry the bucket over an ash car on a suitably located track; and when this has been done the contents of the bucket may be dumped into said ash car merely by disengaging the latcln'as or catches 34: from the catches 33, thereby permitting the doors 32 to swing downward to release the contents of the bucket. To prevent ashes or cinders from falling into the pit 12, outside of the bucket or receptacle, the edges of the pit are preferably provided with guards 44 of sheet metal or other suitable material which will overhang the space between the bucket or receptacle and the side walls of the pit.

From the foregoing it will be understood that when the bucket or receptacle 28 has been lowered into the cage 15 and disengaged from the lifting hook 237 the said cage, with the bucket or receptacle therein, may be moved on the tracks 13 toany desired location beneath an engine, and ashes and cinders may then be dumpedfrom the engine directly into the bucket or receptacle. When the latter becomes filled it may be run to a suitable position adjacent to the crane. and being engaged by the hoisting apparatus above described it may be lifted to any desired height and then swung around over the ash car t'or dun'iping, the blocks 2t and. Qt, forming parts of the swinging portions of the crane, turning on the circular standard 18 in swinging the bucket. horizontally from one position to another. The crane will, in practice, preterably be steadied by guy ropes, as is common with cranes and derricks.

Having thus described our invention we claim and desire to secure by Letters latent:

1. An ash handling apparatus eom n'ising rails, forming a tramway, in an ash pit, a :age furnished with wheels fitted to run on said rails, a dumping bucket adapted to be loosely received by said cage, and means for raising and lowering said bucket and for swinging it from over said pit to a dumping position aside from the pit.

2. An ash handling apparatus comprising an aslrpit provided near its top with rails, a cage provided near its top with wheels titted to run on said rails, a (lumping bucket adapted, to be loosely received by said cage, and means for raising and lowering said bucket and for swinging it from over said pit to a dumping position aside from the pit.

in testimmiy whereof we tlllX our signatures, in presence of two witnessou.

\VlLLlAM l-I. SMALLIGY. EDGAR HATTON. Witnesses tlnnunn :IIIARDIIISQN, tinonon \Vumis Smear.

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