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
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barge is more compact than the last, and can deliver its coal when berthed alongside
the liner, as will be seen from diagrams, Figs. 669 to 671. The capacity is 1,900 tons,
tigs. 666 and 667. Werf Conrad Coal Loader.
and the whole of the contents can be transferred to the bunkers of a liner in four hours.
1 he modus operandi is as follows : Two steel plate conveyors, a and ax, receive the coal
from the hoppers a a and deliver at b by a shoot on to the elevator c, which again
Fig. 668. Perspective View of Werf Conrad Coal Loader.
delivers at e. The slide f regulates the final delivery to shoots g and /z, and thence to
the bunkers of the liner.
As modern liners require from 5,000 to 6,000 tons of bunker coal, it would mean
that the coaling appliance would have to make at least three journeys to replenish its
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