1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class V.: Henry Pooley
784. POOLEY, HENRY, Liverpool — Inventor and Manufacturer.
Patent locomotive engine weighing tables, which give the gross weight, and also the impact upon the rails of each pair of wheels and of each wheel separately. Their use is to enable the superintending engineer to adjust the springs of engines so as to obtain the proper amount of tractive power which is consistent with safety from tendency to run off the line at curves.
Drawing, in plan and sections, showing the construction, and mode of erecting the same.
Drawing, in perspective, showing the construction of the patent railway weighbridge. The rails being omitted this drawing will represent the weighbridge as used for carts or waggons on common roads. The adjustment is concealed and cannot be tampered with. There is no strain or wear except while weighing.
Drawing in plan, elevation, and sections of a patent lock weighing engine, for weighing canal boats and their cargoes.
Patent dormant platform weighing machine, flush with the floor, to weigh from 0.25lb to 2 tons, as used in the merchandise department of the London and North Western and other railways, and for general weighing in warehouses. The accuracy of the results by this machine is equal to that of the beam and scales, whilst the economy of labour, space, and cost, is at least 50 per cent. It is only by such means that the heavy merchandise traffic could be despatched with sufficient rapidity.
Fig. 1.— Elevation of office and weighbridge.
Fig. 2.— Shows the internal construction and arrangement; the walls, platform, etc., being removed.
Fig. 3.— The warehouse machine, as it is seen inside.
Machine of similar principle, on wheels, for use on wharfs, etc., to weigh 1 ton.
Machine of similar principle, as used in parcel offices and shops, to weigh 8 cwt.
Machine of similar principle, for weighing animals, as used by agriculturists, made of various sizes.
Machine for counter use, from 0.5oz. upwards.
Drawings, in plan and detail, of the first large establishment in England, of baths and wash-houses for the poor, erected by the Corporation of Liverpool, 1845-6.—Architect, Joseph Franklin; Engineer, Henry Pooley, Assoc. Inst. C. E.
[In the Whitechapel baths there were 137,519 bathers last year, two-thirds of whom were second class. The charge for a second-class warm bath is 2d., for a cold bath ld. The washers during the last quarter, ending December, were 7,888.]