1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class V.: H. Pooley and Son
1290. POOLEY, H., and SON, Liverpool.
Weighing apparatus.
1. Set of Patent LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE WEIGHING TABLES, for weighing and balancing, or adjusting, engines; giving by one operation the total weight of the engine, and the weight imposed upon the rail by each wheel. Their use is to enable the superintending engineer to adjust the springs of engines so as to obtain the greatest amount of tractive power that is consistent with immunity from danger of running off the line at curves.
2. 'PILE' WEIGHING MACHINE. For rolling mills, and specially for rails. Its use will be obvious to any ironmaster. The 'Piles' are formed upon a small truck, standing upon the weighing portion of the frame next to the 'Piler.' When the amount of iron to make a rail of the required weight is piled upon the truck, it is pushed forward to the workman, to be transferred to the furnace, and thence to the rolls. By this machine, the great loss attending guess work in such operations is avoided.
3. MACHINES FOR ROLLING MILLS AND FORGES — The rollers facilitate the loading and unloading of heavy rails and forgings, the locked and enclosed pent-house preserves it from weather and pilferage when exposed on the public quay or yard. Two sets of labourers can be employed at once — one loading and the other unloading, avoiding all loss of time in waiting between the loads.
4. THE RAILWAY GOODS WAREHOUSE MACHINE. – First introduced by Messrs. Pooley at the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1835; and as the specimen exhibited shows, now greatly improved in design, construction, and exactitude. It is 'dormant' except when put in gear by the man in charge. The weighing-table forms part of the floor, and encumbers no space. Its accuracy is equal to the best scale-beam, whilst labour and cost are economised at least 50 per cent. It is only by means of these machines that the heavy merchandise traffic of railways could be despatched with adequate speed; it has, therefore, become the machine of the goods trade generally, not only for railways, but for general commerce,
5. THE PARCELS OFFICE MACHINE. - combining the instantaneous self-acting indications of the spring dial machine with the strength and convenience of the platform weighing machine. The load to be weighed is simply deposited on the platform, when, on drawing down the lever by the suspended handle, the weight is seen at once upon the face of the dial.
6. The PARCELS OFFICE MACHINE, for use upon the counter; very exact in its indications, but not so speedy as the dial. The low price, combined with great correctness, are its recommendations.
7. PASSENGERS' LUGGAGE MACHINE.- No railway station can be complete, and no company safe from fraud, without one.
8. THE CART WEIGH-BRIDGE 1S of the smallest size, but it exhibits the principle and construction adopted for vehicles of every form, and of every capacity used upon highways. The present example is specially fitted for farmers' use; and, being cheap, very easily erected, without any masonry, and requiring no mechanic to erect or remove it from place to place, is well adapted for the farm.