The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material

CONTENTS xiii CHAPTER XXXVII LOADING COAL INTO SHIPS OTHERWISE THAN BY TIPS PAGE Advantages of the Belt Conveyor over the Tip for Shipping Coal—Coal Loaders at the Japanese Port Miike—The Wrightson Coal Shipper—Coal Loaders at Grimsby—The Loading of Coal on the Humber—Coal Loading Plants at Port Talbot—The Coal Shipper at Middlesbrough—Coal Shipping Plants at Durban and Kidderpur Dock, Calcutta—Wall’s System of Coal Loading ......... 595 CHAPTER XXXVIII MISCELLANEOUS LOADING AND UNLOADING DEVICES Portable Loading Device for Salt—Portable Loader for Dusty Material—-Portable Loading Elevator Fed by a Portable Band Conveyor—Portable Coke-Handling Plant—Loading Salt into Railway Trucks—Portable Band Conveyor—Soar’s Coal-Lowering Apparatus - 611 MISCELLANEOUS INSTALLATIONS CHAPTER XXXIX THE COALING OF RAILWAY ENGINES Old Coaling Stage at Crewe—-Coaling Railway Engines on the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway—American Practice—Coaling Station of the Munich Central Railway—Coaling Station at Antwerp—Coaling Installation of the London and North-Western Railway at Crewe—The Removal of Ashes from Locomotives'- - - - - - 617 CHAPTER XL COAL, COKE, AND ASH HANDLING PLANTS FOR BOILER-HOUSES, GASWORKS, ETC. The Handling of Coal—The Handling of Ashes and Clinkers—Use of Telphers in Gasworks and Power Stations—Boiler-House Installations—Coal-Handling Plants at Altona, Pittsburg; Brooklyn Heights Railroad Co. ; Brooklyn Waterworks; King’s County Electric Light and Power Station, Brooklyn; United Tramway Power Station, Dublin ; Central London Railway Co., Shepherd’s Bush—Zimmer Conveyor for Feeding Boiler- Houses—A Typical Babcock & Wilcox Equipment—Coal-Handling Plants at the Avonbank Power Station, Bristol; Aston Manor Electric Power Station ; Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co..; and Buenos Ayres Grand Central Electric Power Station—Coal and Ashes Handling Plants (on Darley System) at Lowell, U.S.A. ; Buffalo, U.S.A. ; and Sydney, Australia— Gasworks’ Installations—Coal-Handling Plant at Darmstadt—Coal and Coke Handling Plant at Bristol—Coal-Handling Plants at Nuremberg and Brentwood - - - 630 CHAPTER XLI STORING OF COAL AND OTHER MINERALS IN STOCK HEAPS AND SILOS Introductory—Spontaneous Ignition—Stock Piles on the “Dodge” System—Coal Store at Richmond Harbour, Philadelphia—Stock Heap of New York Central Railway—Gravity Bucket Conveyor as used in Connection with a Chalk-Handling Plant—Phosphate Drying and Storage Plant (Darley System)—Mechanically Equipped Ore Stock Pile of Cape Copper Co.—Coke-Handling Plant at the Provan Gasworks—Coal Storage Plant of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Co.—Mechanically Equipped Salt Store—The Storing of Coal in Silos—General Remarks Concerning the Warehousing of Coal— Mechanically Equipped Ore Pile ----------- 650