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 whole of the pipes—pressure and return water—are solid drawn steel tubes
of the Mannesmann type.
At this dock eight tips, twenty-five cranes, as well as the dock gates, are manipulated
by hydraulic plant (z in Fig. 784) consisting of four double acting pumps, each of 600 H.P.,
Fig. 785. Side View of Coal Tip at Goole Docks.
with a capacity of 40 cub. ft. of water at a pressure of 815 lb. per square inch, with
the necessary accumulators.
The seven tips in the inner dock were built by Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, & Co.,
and the one outside the dock by Head, Wrightson, & Co., Ltd.
Coal Tips at the G-oole Docks.—These unique tips are illustrated by two photo-
graphic views, Figs. 785 and 786, and also by a sectional diagram, Fig. 787, although,
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