US402284A - Coal-conveyer - Google Patents

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GIL. STUEBNER.

GOAL OONVEYBR.

No. 402.284. Patented Apr. 30, 1889.

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GOAL GONVEYER.

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GUSTAVUS L. STUEBNER, OFLONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK.

QOAL-CONVEYER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,284, dated April 30, 1889. 4

Application filed February 9, 1889. semi No. 299,110. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GUs'rAvUs L. STUEBNER, of Long Island'Gity, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Coal-Oonveyer, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a conveyer for depositing coal in bins, such more particularly as are elevated, so that wagons-and carts may be loaded from a trap at the bottom of the bins.

The invention consists, principally, of a series of buckets or receptacles supported on a track and adapted to be moved beneath a hopper or spout and over the bin or bins, and constructed to automatically deposit their contents successively into the bins, the buckets or receptacles being filled from the hopper or spout.

The invention also consists in the construction of the track with hinged or removable sections, one over each bin, to act in connection with drop-doors in the bottoms of the buckets or receptacles for automatically emptying. the contents of the buckets into the bins.

The invention also consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, substantially as described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan View of my invention. Fig. 2 is a broken side elevation of the same,

showing the elevated bins and carts under-- neath. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detailed sectional view of the bins, track, and traveling buckets or conveying-receptacles. Fig. l isa plan view showing the track and its support, and Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional elevation on line 00 as of Fig. 3; 1

A represents a large receptacle for coal, di-

vided into bins by the partitions B. The bins are elevated, as shown in Fig. 2, so that carts may enter beneath them for loading. In supplying the bins the coal is first dumped into the hopper C, from which it is lifted by an endless elevator D, and discharged into the chute E, which leads it to the conveyer F. This conveyer is circular and travels upon a track, G, above the bins. In this instance said track is supported by the uprights H H and octagonal platform I 5 but it may be placed upon the top of the bins or supported in any suitable manner. The conveyer F is open at the top and constructed to form a series of hoppers, f, as shown in Fig. 3, the bottom of each of which is provided with a trap-door, F, held closed by the wheel F thereof resting upon the track. In the platform I over each bin is formed an opening, J, which permits the door of each hopper to drop open, as shown in Fig. 3, to discharge its contents into the bin below. Each trap-door is closed by an incline, J, against which the door is carried by the pro gress or traveling movement of the conveyer. In this manner the hoppers are automatically opened and closed, so that no attention need be paid to the apparatus after the track is opened above the bin which is to be filled or into which the coal is to be immediately de posited.

The track G over each bin and over each opening J is provided with a movable section, G These sections are by preference hinged to the main or permanent parts of the track, as shown in Fig. 4, and when closed these sections span the openings J and form a continuous track, so that the coal will not be dropped from the hoppers except where one of the said sections is swung to one side, opening the track at that point.

The conveyer is braced to the center cast= ing, K, by the spokes K, and is journaled on the upright shaft L, and revolved by any suitable transmission of power applied to the pulley M and belt N. In the arrangement here shown the power is taken from the elevatorshaft 0 and transmitted through the belt d, shaft (1', pulley d gearing d, and pulley d to the said belt N. By this arrangement the same power which elevates the coal is utilized for conveying the coal to the difierent bins, and the depositing of the coal in the bins is automatically performed, and the coal may be directed to any bin by simply swinging out the section G of the track which corresponds to the bin to be filled.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent-' 1. A conveyer comprising several hoppers arranged in the form of a circle and mounted on wheels, and each provided with a door at the bottom, in combination with a track on which the hoppers travel and means for antomatically opening and closing the said doors, substantially as described.

2. The conveyer comprising several connected hoppers, each having a trap-door at the bottom, in combination with a track on which the hoppers travel, having permanent and removable sections, substantially as described.

3. A conveyer comprising several hoppers connected in a circle, each having a trap-door at the bottom, in combination with a circular track having permanent and movable sections, each trap-door being provided with a support to run upon the track, substantially as described.

4. The receptacle A, divided into bins, and the circular track G, supported above thebins and having removable sections G, in combination with the circular conveyer F, having a series of hoppers placed upon the track, each hopper being provided with a trap-door at the bottom, substantially as described.

5. The receptacle A, divided into bins, and the platform I and track G thereon, supported above the bins, said platform being formed with the openings J, having inclines J, and said track being formed with movable sections G, in combination with the conveyer F, having doors F at its bottom, substantially as described.

GUSTAVUS L. STUEBNER.

Witnesses:

EDWD. M. CLARK, EDGAR TATE.

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