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
COAL TIPS OR HOISTS
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the constantly varying position of the hatchways, two fixed hoists would very rarely be
capable of doing. Fig. 779 illustrates this tip.
Coal Tips at Penarth Docks.—One of the four movable tips at Penarth Docks
is illustrated in Figs. 780 and 781. These four new movable tips are placed on the north
Figs. 780 and 781. Movable Tip at Penarth Dock.
side of Penarth Dock Basin, and resemble those at Cardiff, but have a total height of
96 ft.; they are capable of being rapidly moved by means of hydraulic hauling engines.
Every part of the machinery of this hydraulic tip, the cradle, tipping, control of the
shoots, and the movement and working of the anti-breakage cranes and boxes, is under
the control of one man in the high cabin on the east side of the tip. All the machinery,
which has to work under pressure, has been tested to carry a pressure of not less than