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The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material
The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material
Forfatter: A.-M.Inst.C E., George Frederick Zimmer
År: 1916
Forlag: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Sted: London
Sider: 752
UDK: 621.87 Zim, 621.86 Zim
Being a Treatise on the Handling and Storing of Material such as Grain, Coal, Ore, Timber, Etc., by Automatic or Semi-Automatic Machinery, together with the Various Accessories used in the Manipulation of such Plant
352 THE MECHANICAL HANDLING OF MATERIAL
to the older type of inclined furnace elevator, Liirmann correctly maintains that with only
one hoist for each furnace any breakdown will bring the work of the furnace to a
standstill.
Fig. 493. A Typical American Furnace Hoist.
Fig. 492 shows one of a couple of furnaces which have been connected by a gantry
or bridge, against the centre of which, and between the furnaces, two inclined elevators
are fixed.
The hoist car, which will take 6 to 20 tons of ore, as it is charged from the pockets,
is bodily drawn up on the cradle of the elevator, and as it reaches the top, the rails on