The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material

 MISCELLANEO US CON VE YORS 187 In addition to the advantage already mentioned of greater speed of delivery, it has the further advantage that both top and bottom strands can be used for conveying. It is obvious that when two or more conveyors are coupled together the timbers will readily travel from one length to another; but where the lower strand is also to be used for conveying, small auxiliary conveyors are used to remove the timber from the lower strand past the terminals to the lower strand of the next conveyor. Fig. 250. Photographic View of Lowering Device in connection with Bolinder Conveyor at Millwall Docks. 'Ehe capacity of this new conveyor is IGO standards in ten hours. There are many other conveyors in use for conveying timber, principally in the timber districts of America and in the vicinity of the Baltic Sea. These are not, however, individually described, as they do not present any new features. 'I hey are all more or less of the same type as the trough cable conveyor, and work in pairs or in greater numbers. The attachments are so pitched as to simultaneously engage with beams or planks, and scr convey them up inclines or in a horizontal direction. Very frequently