US690660A - Hay-elevator. - Google Patents

Description

No. 690,660, Patented Ian. 7, I902.

J. N-EY.

HAY ELEVATOR.

(Application filed Oct. 8, 1901.) ("0 Model.) 6 3 Sheets-Sheet I.

No. 690,660. Patented Ian. 7, I902. J. NEY.

HAY ELEVATOR.

(Application filed Oct. 8, 1901.) (No Model.) I 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 d 114006 JVy,

No. 690,660. Patented Ian. 7, I902.

' J. NEY.

)IAY ELEVATOR.

v (Application filed Oct. 3, 1901.) (No Model.) 3 Shasta-Shoat 3.

UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE; I

JACOB NEY, OF CANTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE V. L. NEY COMPANY, OF CANTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.-

HAY-ELEVATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 690,660, dated January 7,' 1902. Application filed October 3, 1901. Serial No. 77,396. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, J AOOB NEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Canton, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hay-Elevators; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the'figures of reference marked thereon, in which- Figure lisa side elevation showing the carriage looked upon the track or way. Fig. 2 is a vertical section showing the carriage locked to the track or way. Fig. 3 is an end View of the carriage, showing a transverse section of the track or way and illustrating the trip-bar placed in operative position. Fig.

4. is a detached view of the carriage-releasing lever. Fig. 5 is adetached view of the upper or stop-block-engaging dog. Fig. 6 is a detached view of the push dog or head. Fig. 7 is a detached View of the interposed carriagereleasing and ropegri'poperating device. Fig. Sis a detached view of the rope-gripping shoe. Fig. 9 is a detached view of the lower or register-head-engaging dog.

The present invention has relation to hayelevators designed and arranged to release the carriage from a fixed point upon the track or way at any point between the starting and stopping point of the load to be elevated and to release the carriage from the track or way when the register-head has become connected with the carriage; and the invention consists in the different parts and combination of parts hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In the accompanying drawings, 1 represents the track or way, which is supported in an elevated position in the usual manner and upon which track or way the carriage travels back and forth over the place or places where it is desired to deposit or drop the loads to be elevated and deposited.

The carriage proper, -as shown, is formed of two sections 2 and 3, which sections are swiveled together by means of the tongue and of the carriage.

groove 4; but the purposes of the present invention can be carried out without any reference to the exact construction of the frame I have, however, illustrated a reversible carrier or one designed to deposit the loads elevated upon either side of a driveway, which driveway usually consists of the ordinary-barn-floor, with mows located upon opposite sides thereof.

To the track or way 1 is connected, in any convenient and well-known manner, the stopblock 5, which stop-block may be provided with an integral hanger portion 6; but this is not necessary unlessit is desired to support the track above the stop-block.

To the lower section 3 of the carriage-frame are pivotally connected the dogs 7 and 8. The dog 7 is calculated to engage with the stopblock 5 and is brought into the position illustrated in Fig. 2when the carriage is looked upon the track or way. The dog 8 is located below the dog 7 and in operative contact with the dog 7. The dog 8 is provided with the register-head-engaging hook 9. The interposed carriage-rel'easing device is located between the pivotal points of the dogs 7 and 8, and it consists of two parallel bars 10 and 10, spaced from each other by cross-bolts or rivets 11, 12, 13, and 14:.

To the lower member of the carriage-frame 3 is pivotally connected the pushdog 16,which push dog or head is pivotally connected to the cross-bolt or rivet 11 of the interposed carriage-releasing device. The push dog or head 16 is provided with the arml7, to which arm are connected the elevating-rope-connecting link or eye 18 and the elevating-rope 19, connected to the link or eye, which elevatingrope extends downward and under the elevating-block 20, and thence upward over the pulley 21, and thence to the point where draft is to be applied. It will be understood that the pulley 21 is to be properlyjournaled upon a suitable shaft 22, which shaft is connected to the lower member of the frame 3.

To the side of the lower member 3 of the carriage is pivotally connected the carriagereleasing lever 23, which carriage releasing lever is substantially of the form shown in Fig. 4, and, as shown, its inner upper end is provided with the antifriction-roller 24.,which antifriction-roller is located against the edge of the stop-bar 15 of the carriage releasing device when said lever is in its normal position or, in the position to hold the carriage looked upon the track or way. The stop-bar 15 extends from one of the parallel bars of the carriage-releasing device and is located adjacent to the inner end of the re1ea-sing-lever23.

The carriage-releasin g lever 23 is preferably extended downward from its pivotal point, so as to bring it in better position to be operated by the trip-bar 25, which trip-bar is op; erated by means of the trip-rope 26, which trip-rope extends upward over a pulley 27 and is connected to the trip-bar 25 in any convenient and well-known manner. I

The trip-bar 25 is pivotally connected at its outer end, so as to give said trip-bar a horizontal swinging movemenhand thereby insure the passage of the carriage back and forth upon the track or way without any interfer ence with said trip-bar.

I do not desire to be confined to the exact arrangement of the trip-bar 25 shown in the drawings, as the only object of said trip-bar is to provide one means of elevating the carriage-releasing lever 23, as it will be understood that the carriage releasing lever may be elevated to release the carriage in many ways; but I have illustrated one means for elevating the lower end of the carriage-releasing lever for the purpose of showing how said lever may be elevated to release the carriage.

When the carriage-releasing lever is in the position illustrated in Fig. 1, the interposed carriage-releasing device is locked against end movement, and at the same time said interposed carriage-releasing device is held in a position to hold the brake-shoe 28 out of contact with the, elevating-rope 19, so that said elevating-rope is free to move around the pulley 21 in the ordinary manner. The brake-shoe 28 is pivotally attached to the parallel members 10 and 10 of the carriage-releasing device.

It will be understood that when the carriage-releasing device, consisting of the parallel bars 10 and 10, is held against end movement the downpull of the elevating-rope 19 upon the link 18 will not permit any independent movement of the push dog or head 16, and when the register-head 29 is to be engaged with the hooked end of the dog 8 there is no movement of the interposed carriage-releasing device; but said device remains at rest at all times until the lower end of the carriage-releasing lever is elevated; but when the lower end of the releasing-lever 23 is elevated its upper end, which is provided with the antifriction-roller 24, is lowered, so as to bring it out of contact with the bar 15, so that the interposed releasing device is free to move toward the pulley 21 and clamp the elevating-rope 19 between the shoe 2S and the pulley 21. The moment the interposed :releasing device is freed by elevating of the lower end of the release-lover 23 and lowering the inner upperend thereof the downpull of the elevating-rope will lower the arm 17, which in turn moves the dog 8 upon its pivotal point and brings the upper end of the dog 8 from under the antifriction-roller 30, which antifrictiou-roller is journaled to the dog. 7. As the push dog or head 16 ismoved toward the pulley 21 it moves the dog 8 by means of the cross-bolt or rivet 12, and for the purpose of insuring the proper movement of the dog 7 to release the carriage from the stop-block 5 said dog is provided with the downward-extending arm 31, which downward-extending arm is so located that the bolt or rivet 13 will swing the downward-extending arm 31, by which arrangement the movements of the dogs 7 and 8 are made positive and certain. \Vhen thedogs 7 and 8 have been moved by the forward movement of the carriage-releasin g device, the dog 7 will be brought into a position to be released from the stop-block 5, at which time the carriage is free to move upon the track in the direction of the pull of the elevating-rope, and when the carriage is returned the stop-block 5 will bring the dog 7 into proper position to lock the carriage 11 port the stop-block, and the downward-extending arm 31 will move the interposed releasing device away from the elevating-rope and release the dog 8, so that its top or upperend will come under the friction-wheel 30 of the dog 7, as illustrated in Fig. 2, and allow the inner upper end of the lever 24 to move upward, so as to bring the antifriction-roller 24: directly in front of the cross-bar 15.

It will be understood that the lower end of the lever 23 should be of such a weight that it will. fall by gravity when the bar 15 is brought from under the upper end of said lever.

It will be understood from the above description that when the carriage-releasing lever 23 is elevated at its bottom or lower end the carriage will be released from the stopblock upon the track or way regardless of the register-head 29 and that it is immaterial as to the location of the register-head or the load being elevated, so that by my peculiar arrangement I am enabled to release the carriage and lock the elevating-rope to the carriage at any desired time during the elevation of the load and before the register-head 29 has become engaged with the carriage.

If it is desired to engage the register-head with the carriage and lock the load to the carriage, no attention is paid to the trip-rope 26,

i and no independent movement is imparted to the lever 23 or to the carriage-releasing de vice, consisting of the parallel bars 10 and 10, and no independent movement is imparted to the push dog or head 16; but the dogs 7 and 8 are operated by the register-head 29 coming in contact with the bottom or under side of the arm 39 of the dog 8, which elevates said arm, throwing the upper end of the dog 8 from under the dog 7, which releases said dog from the stop-block 5. The operation j ust above described is the ordinary operation and the same that it would be without the interposed releasing device, consisting of 5 the parallel bars 10, the lever 23, and a tripbar or other device to lift the carriage-releasing lever 23.

For the purpose of providing a means for holding the forward ends of the parallel bars 10 in proper relative position the lugs 33 are provided, which lugs are located directly under said parallel members 10.

For the purpose of allowing the rope-clamping shoe 28 to have a yielding movement be- I 5 tween the parallel bars'lO and itself sa-id shoe is pivotally attached to said bars.

Having fully described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 7 2o 1. Inahay-elevator,a track or way, atravelving carriage mounted upon the track or way,

a stop-block fixed to the track, a dog adapted to lock the carriage tothe stop-block, and a register-head-engaging dog, a register-head 2 5 engaging the dog and a carriage-releasing device located intermediate the dogs, said releasing device provided with a brake-shoe, substantially as and for the purpose specified. 2. In a hay-elevator of the class described, 0 a track provided with a stop-block, a carriage movable thereon, dogs carried by the traveling carriage, a carriage-release lever pivotally connected to the carriage-frame, parallelv bars provided with a stop-bar, a rope-clamp- 5 ing shoe pivotally connected to the parallel bars and a push dog or head connected to and carried by the parallel bars, and an elevating rope suspended from the push dog or head, substantially as and for the purpose specified. 4o 3. In a hay-elevator the combination of a track or Way provided with a stop-block, a carriage located thereon, said carriage provided with a release-lever and means for releasing the lever from engagement with the 5 interposed carriage releasing device, a dog adapted to lock the carriage in fixed position upon the track independent of the register- 5. In a hay-elevator the combination of a track or way provided with a stop-block, a

carriage-locking dog carried by the carriage and provided with a downward-extending arm, sliding parallel bars spaced one from the other and provided with a bolt or rivet adapted to engage the downward-extending arm of the carriage-locking dog, a push dog or head pivotally connected to the carriage and to the spaced parallel bars, one end of the elevating-rope suspended from the push head or dog, and a registering-head-engaging dog and a pivoted lever carried by the carriageframe and adapted to lock the parallel bars against end movement, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

6. The combination of a traveling carriage mounted upon a track or way, a stopblock fixed to the track or way, a dog carried by the carriage to engage the stop-block and lock 30 the carriage, a register-head-engaging dog carried .by the carriage and in operativeposition with the carriage-locking dog, and the dogs adapted to operate with contact with the registering head and independent of the in-. terposed carriage-releasing device, and an interposed carriage releasing device substantially as and for the purpose specified.

7. The combination of a track or way provided with a stop-block, a carriage mounted o thereon and provided with a carriage-locking dog and a register-head-locking dog, and an interposed carriage-releasing device provided with a push-dog and an elevating-'ropeeclamp shoe carried by the interposed carriage-re- 5 leasing device, and a lever adapted to lock the carriage releasing device against end movement and to release the interposed releasing device, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

8. The combination of a track or way provided with a stop-block, a carriage mounted thereon, means for locking the carriage to the stop -block, a sliding carriage-releasing device adapted to be operated by the downpull of the elevating-rope to release the carriage and lock the elevating-rope, and a lever carried by the carriage adapted to lock the carriage-releasing device when in normal position and to release the carriage from the :10 track or way and lock the elevating-rope when out of normal position, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence :15

of two witnesses.

JACOB NEY. Witnesses:

J. A. JEFFERs, F. W. BOND.

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