US409568A - Process of remov - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Seetd J. M. DODGE. PROCESS OP REMOVING PILES OP GOAL.

Patented Aug 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. DODGE.

Patented Aug. 20, i889.

M Poess 0F REMOVING PILES 0F GOAL. No. 409,568.

the coal into the car or other receptacle to be filled.

The trestle-work F,instead of being placed in close proximity to the track, may be placed on a Wharf, and the chute may direct the coal into vessels to be loaded, or the chute may be so constructed as to direct the coal into a second conveyer or chute and carry it to a distant point, if necessary.

I have given a brief description of one of the machines for carrying out my vprocess in order to clearly set forth the process; but itwill be understood that other forms or styles of machines may be used from my invention.

In Fig. 6 I have shown a conical pile of coal piled by the mechanism set forth in my application, Serial No. 806,980, .and have shown merely .the conveyer B, pivoted .at a fixed point c, dispensing entirely with the conveyer A.

It will be understood that inpiling the coal the'piles will vary according ,to the locality The conveyer attacks the pileof coal, as shown in Fig. 1, along its base, 'anddisturbs the integrity of the .pile-in fact, eats into thel pile throughout .the entire extent of contact of the conveyer, 4and not at a single .'point, as in the case of shoveling by hand Aorrby an excavatwithout departing ing-machine. The coal, as soon as disturbed bythe action of the conveyer, flows by gravity into the conveyer-trough and is carried along by the iiights of the conveyer to the point of delivery. It will thus be' seen that the coal is handled gently and flows onto the conveyer by gravity when the angle of repose is broken, and when once on the conveyer the coal is carried to the point of delivery without any breaking or disintegration of the same, as would be the case in carrying out the processes usually employed prior to my invention, the direction of removal being laterally past and away from the pile, and the conveyer being advanced toward the constantly, receding point of supply until the entire pile has been disposed of. f v

I claim as my invention- The mode herein described of effecting the .removal or distribution of storage-piles of coal or like gravitating granularl material, which consists in continuously attacking the pile along one side of its base, thus causing the material to flow by gravity on that side Aof the pile which is attacked, catching said tmy

Images