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No. 625,085.' Patented May I6, |899 '0. J. CDNLEY.

I'ONVEYER FDR UNLOADING VESSELS.

(Application led May 10, 1898.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 625,085, dated May 16, 1899.

Application nea May 1o, 189s. Isaai No. 680,242. (No man To .cLZZ whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, OWEN J. CONLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have made a new and useful Invention in Oonveyers for Unloading Vessels, of which the following is a specication.

My invention has for its objects, rst, to so construct a vessel that the material carried. thereby-such, for instance, as coal, crushed ore, sand, grain, or the like-maybe removed Y therefrom bya conveyer located beneath the entire load and elevated to a point above the deck of the vessel and then convey it to any point of delivery within range of a universally-adjustable conveyer carried by the vessel, and, second, to adapt such a vessel and its conveying and elevating apparatus to the purpose of unloading such materials on board of a vessel at sea.

My invention will be fully understood by referring to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of,

a vessel constructed in accordance with my invention and illustrating in part sectional part elevational view my novel apparatus for removing and elevating a load of material carried thereby. Fig.V 2 is a transverse sectional view thereof, taken on the broken line Fig. l, and as seen looking at that figure from the left toward the right-hand side of the drawings in the direction of the arrowsl Fig. 3 is an enlarged plan view of the mechanism for controlling the movement of the eX- terior conveyer or elevator and for permitting the upper or free end thereof to be moved at will in all directions; and Fig.A 4L is a side elevational View of the same mechanism, a sectional view being taken through the body of the apparatus in order to illustrate more clearly the king bolt or pin which permits the apparatus to partake of lateral movement..

Referring now to the drawings in detail, in which like letters of reference represent like parts wherever used, H represents the hull of a vessel, and K K the` decks of the carrying or conveying part thereof, the same being inwardlyinclined, preferably at an angle of about forty-five degrees, and trussed or otherwise supported in such manner as to sustain the load thereon.

H H2 H3 to H7, inclusive, represent discharging-hoppers located at the bottom of the V-shaped deck, and cl d d are sliding doors adapted to close the lower ends of said discharging-hoppers, the entire arrangement being such that when coal, crushed ore,or analogous materialis placed upon said decks the tendency thereof will be to move downward into thehoppers HH2 H3, &c.

R R R2 to R6, inclusive, are rollers journaled in standards t t secured to the bottom of the vessel, R to R6, inclusive, being 1ocated directly beneath the discharging-hoppers H' to H7, inclusive. of well-known form carried b v said rollers and adapted to receive the material from the discharging-hoppers H to H7, inclusive. On the shaft which supports the driving-roller R are two pulleys P and P', (see Fig. 2,) one of said pulleys being in alinement with 'the corresponding pulley upon the iiy-wheel shaft of a donkey-engine E, located in an independent compartment near thebow of the vessel and connected thereto by a belt b, the arrangement being such that the engine will drive the conveyer-belt O in the proper direch tion to advance the material from left to right.

O is an elevator-belt carried by rollers E' E', properlysupported, respectively, near the bottom of the ves-sel and above the deck thereof and provided with the usual elevatorbuckets, as shown, and O2 is a conveyer or elevator belt carried by a trussed frame T,

pivotally supported at the opposite ends of the roller E2, which in turn is supported by a king bolt or pin C in a metallic standard F, resting upon a truss or frame G on the upper deck of the vessel. The outer end of the truss -T is adj ustably sustained by a block and fall consisting of pulleys p p and a rope fr, the upper pulley p being pivotally secured by a link to the .upper end of a derrick D, secured to the upper deck near the bow of the vessel.

W is a winch to which is secured the free end of the rope r, and g g g g are guy-ropes secured, respectively, to the upper end of the derrick and the sides of the vessel.

g' g2 are guy-ropes secured at the outer end of the truss Referring now to Figs. 3 and 4, P2 P3 are pulleys carried by a shaft j ournaled in standards S S bf the metallicframework D', and

O is a conveyer-belt IOO B B' B2 B3 are beveled gear-wheels, the gearwheel B meshing with the lower gear B and the upper gear B2 with the gear B2, carried by the same shaft which supports the driving roller or drum E2 for the outer and upper conveyer or elevator belt O2. The lower gearwheel B is seated in the upper surface of an extension F of the metallic framework D', and it, together with the standards J J, which pivotally support the lower end of the truss T, is secured thereto by a king bolt or pinv C, so that the outer conveyer or elevatormay partake of lateral motion in either of two directions and vertical motion about its pivotal supports upon the standards .I J.

The pulley P, Fig. 2, is connected by a belt b with the pulley P2, and the pulley P3, upon the same shaft as the pulley P2, is in turn connected by a belt b2 with a pulley P4 upon a shaft journaled in the framework of the derrick D, which pulley is in turn connected by a belt b3 with a pulley carried by the same shaft which supports the drivingroller E of the elevator-belt O.

E4 is a hopper located in front of and below the upper end of the elevator-belt .O and adapted to convey the material therefrom to v the lower end of the outer conveyer or elevator belt O2.

The outer or free end of the truss T is provided on its opposite sides with guy-ropes g' g2 for the purpose of ysecuring it in any desired position and also for facilitating its movements laterally about the pivotal point of support in the nature of the king bolt or pin C, said guy-ropes also, when secured on shore, being adapted to prevent any movement of this part of the conveyer owing to the action of the mechanism itself. These guy-ropes are also ldesigned to be used as a means of securing the vessel to the side of a steamer or other vessel while coaling at sea.

The operation of the entire apparatus is as follows: The load to be carried by the vessel is placed in the carrying-compartment, consisting of the inclined decks K K, the sliding doors d d d of the discharging-hoppers H to H2 having all rst been closed. The vessel' is secured to the dock, and the outer or free end of the truss T, which carries the outer' conveyer or elevator belt O2, is secured by the guy-ropes referred to and the proper elevation given thereto by the block-and-fall mechanism and winch W. The donkey-engine is now set in motion in the proper directlon to cause the upper portion of the conveyer-belt' O to move from left to right or from the stern toward the bow of the vessel and yat the same time to give, through the agency of the several belts b b2 b3 and pulleys P P2 P3 P4, the proper movement to cause The sliding door d of the first discharginghopper I-l is now withdrawn and the material allowed to descend by its own weight upon the surface of the conveyer-belt O, and as it descends it is carried forward and upward and ultimately discharged at the upper end of the conveyer or elevator belt O2. In like manner the succeeding doors d are withdrawn, and theentire load is thus completely discharged through the sole agency of the conveyer itself.

Itis apparent that coal,powdered'or crushed ore, or analogous material might be carried in the lower compartment beneath the decks and shoveled or otherwise transferred to the upper surface of the conveyer-belt O, thus giving to my novel form of vessel the capacity of carrying an additional load below the inclined decks.

Although I have hereinbefore described my invention as applicable for unloading a vessel at a dock, it is appa-rent that the same may have other uses-as, for instance, it has especial use in the delivery of coal to vessels either at sea or at a dock, its adjustability rendering it a very desirable means of eifecting this result. It is also to be understood that my invention is applicable for use with all kinds of material capable of descending through the discharging-hoppers H to H7, inclusive-such, for instance, as salt, sugar, iron, ore, coal, crushed rock, or analogous materials.

I am aware that it is not broadly new with me todevise a vessel having inclined sides and discharge-hoppers adapted to discharge the vmaterial carried thereby upon a conveyer located beneath said hoppers and convey it to an elevator located near one end of the vessel, which in turn conveys it to a point of discharge on shore or elsewhere, and I make no claim hereinafter broad enough to include such a structure.

I-Iaving thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Let-ters Patent of the United States, is-

1. The combination of a vessel, a conveyer located in a compartment beneath the entire load carried by the vessel, an elevator adapted to receive the material discharged from said conveyer and elevate the same 5 a second conveyer adapted to receive said material from the upper or delivery end of the elevator, said second conveyer being pivotally secured to the deck of the vessel in such manner as to adapt its free or delivery end to be moved in any desired direction, together with means carried also by the vessel for elevating the free or delivery end of said 'second conveyer to a point above the delivery end of the elevator, whereby the material carried by the vessel may be elevated and unloaded at various heights and angles,substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination of a vessel, a conveyer located in a compartment beneath the entire load carried by the vessel, an elevator adapt- IOO ed to receive the material discharged from said conveyer and elevate the same; a second conveyer adapted to receive said material from the upper or delivery end of the elevator, said second conveyer being pivotally secured to the deck of the vessel in such manner as to adapt its free or delivery end to be moved in any desired direction and raised to a point above the delivery end of the elevator; a derrick secured also to the deck of the vessel, together with block-and-fall mechanism pivotally connecting the second conveyer with the top of the derrick and means, as a Winch, for elevating the free or delivery end of said second conveyer to any desired height, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this 7th day of May, 1898.

OWEN J. CONLEY. Witnesses: t v

C.J. KINTNER, M. F. KEATING.

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