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links and engaging the rear of the horizontal
links. The vertical links lie in the annular
groove 12, while the T-heads of the bolts 17
rest in the smaller recesses 14. The bottoms
5 of the slats are sheathed with metal and rest
directly on the longitudinal slides 4. Secured
to some of said slats by transversely bolting
are hooked rests or supports 22, Fig. 4, always
employed in pairs, while on the slats interme-
1o diate each pair of hooked supports are verti-
cal pins 23, which are shouldered and formed
with a small threaded end which passes
through the slat, after which a nut is thread-
ed on, Fig. 7.
15 The hooked supports are so arranged that
when a pair of car-wheels or a scrap axle is
being carried thereby, as will be hereinafter
described, the center of gravity of said wheels
or axle is in front of or above the T-headed
20 bolt, Fig. 4, and therefore holds the slat flatly
against the slides 4 and prevents the slat from
tipping, which would cause the same to bind
on the slides.
Secured to the bottom of the upper end of
25 the sides 2 are angle-irons 24, the ends of which
rest on the car-floor 25, which may be provided
with a cleat 26 in order to more securely hold
the conveyer in position.
The conveyer is provided with a pair of
30 wheels 27, so as to make the same portable,
and the conveyer-chain is operated, prefer-
ably, by an air-motor 28, which revolves a
shaft 29, to which is secured on the end there-
of a pinion 30, Fig. 2, which meshes with a
35 gear-wheel 31 on the shaft 32, on which is se-
cured a pinion 33, Fig. 1. Said pinion meshes
with a gear-wheel 34, keyed to a shaft 35, on
which is carried on both ends thereof chain
sprocket-wheels 36. Chains 37 pass over said
40 sprockets and around sprocket-wheels 7,keyed
to the shaft 0, on which are keyed the upper
conveyer-chain sprockets 5.
I provide the conveyer with metal straps or
handles 39 for the purpose of moving the
45 conveyer.
40 indicates inclined planes secured to the
car-track at the end of the conveyer.
41 indicates my double inclined wheel-
bridging, having the hollow space 42 therein
50 and the flat platform 43.
Having thus described the several parts of
my invention, its operation is as follows:
When it is desired to load a car-wheel onto a
car, the conveyer is put in operation and the
55 pair of wheels are run up the inclined planes
at the foot of the conveyer, and as one of the
slats provided with the hooked supports starts
on its upward run'said supports engage the
axle of the wheels and carry them to the
6o upper end of the conveyer and deposit them
on the car-floor. The conveying of scrap
axles is carried on in the same manner, butin the case of scrap wheels they are raised and
placed on the projecting pins 23, as shown
in Figs. 2 and 8. The wheels are run up the 65
inclined plane of the wheel-bridging, Fig. 9,
and onto the platform 43, where they are en-
gaged by the pins 23 and carried up. In like
manner other heavy and clumsy material
may be loaded on cars with my conveyer, al- 70
though I have constructed the same particu-
larly with the view of conveying and loading
car-wheels. I do not, however, wish to be un-
derstood as limiting myself in this particular,
nor to the exact construction as herein set 75
forth, as various slight changes may be made
therein, both in material and construction,
and I consider myself clearly entitled to all
such changes and modifications.
What I claim as my invention, and desire 8o
to secure by Letters Patent of the United
States, is-
1. In a conveyer the combination with the
body and chain - sprockets, of a conveyer-
chain, conveyer -slats adapted to be carried 85
thereon, threaded bolts passing through the
horizontal links of said chain and passing
through and secured to said slats, substan-
tially as described.
2. In a conveyer the combination with a 90
body of a conveyer-chain and conveyer-slats,
T-bolts securing said slats to said chain,chain-
sprockets having grooves therein for the ver-
tical links of said chain, recesses for the hori-
zontal links, recesses for the bolt-heads, and 95
means for revolving said sprockets, substan-
tially as described.
3. In a conveyer the combination with a
body, of a conveyer-chain, and means for
driving the same, conveyer-slats, bolts secur- xoo
ing said slats to said chain, chain-sprockets
having grooves therein for the reception of
the vertical links of said chain, and recesses
for the horizontal links, substantially as de-
scribed. 105
4. In a conveyer the combination with the
body, of a conveyer-chain and slats secured
thereto, hooked supports transversely bolted
to said slats, and arranged so that the center
of gravity of the load is forward of the center i io
of the slats, substantially as described.
5. In a conveyer the combination with the
body, of a conveyer-chain and slats secured
thereto, hooked supports secured to said slats,
and arranged so that the center of gravity of 115
the load is forward of the center of the slats,
and vertical pins secured in said slats, sub-
stantially as described.
In testimony whereof I affix my signature
in presence of two witnesses.
HENRY LIVINGSTON ST. JAMES.
Witnesses:
W. P. H. ALLEN,
JOHN MUNTZ.2
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St. James, Henry Livingston. Conveyer., patent, July 22, 1902; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511002/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.