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The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material
The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material
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 OP HOISTS
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rods being connected to it. The tipping movement in the first tip was effected by
rotary hydraulic engines and chains, but in the later tips it is effected by cylinder and
ram with multiplying sheaves and chains. These tips were built by Sir W. G. Armstrong,
Fig. 787. Sectional Diagram of Tip at Goole Docks.
Whitworth, & Co., Ltd., the first being erected in the year 1863, the second in 1888, and
the third in 1900.
Coal Tips at Rotterdam.—The port of Rotterdam, from which a large proportion
of the coal from the Westphalian coal fields is shipped, had long experienced the