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
462 THE MECHANICAL HANDLING OF MATERIAL
grain to the elevator in the vessel s hold consists of four large wooden grain trimming
shovels or ploughs, driven by a suitable winch from an electro-motor.
The plant1 proved so satisfactory that the Docks Committee ordered a similar but
larger installation for their grain docks in Bristol.
Tig. 641. Ship Elevator at Avonmouth Docks in Housed Position.
Barge Elevator for Handling- Sacks.2—A somewhat more complex device
is for the unloading of goods in sacks from barges to warehouses. Such installations are
more especially for seeds, grain, etc., which are more generally handled in sacks, such
1 Milling, 6th June 1903.
“ From an article in Zeitschrift des Vereins deutscher Ingenieure, 30th November 1912.