The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material

UNLOADING VESSELS BY BARGE OR SHLP ELEVATORS 457 PORTABLE BARGE ELEVATORS These are very similar to the elevators attached to factory buildings and gantries for the purpose of clearing grain, coal, and similar materials from ships holds. .As has previously been explained, they can be used for coal only when it is of a fairly uniform size. Barge Elevator for Grain.—A typical example of a movable barge elevator Fig. G34. Banana Unloader. is that at work at the Eagle Oil Mills of Messrs J. Rank, Ltd., Hull, and which was built by Messrs Spencer & Co., Ltd., Melkshatn. It is driven by electricity, it is self- propelling, and is capable of raising 60 tons of seed per hour. 1 he whole of the machinery for operating the elevator is erected in a corrugated iron cabin, which is movable with the elevator on the track. Travelling gear is provided in order to minimise the necessity of trimming as much as possible, as at low tide these barges lie on the mud, so that it would not be possible to move them for unloading purposes. Phe elevator delivers in any position of its travel through a telescopic shoot on to a