The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material

ELEVATORS FOR LARGE OBJECTS 39 All the platforms of the floors which are not required for loading and receiving are thrown out of the way by the arrangement of levers already mentioned, which controls the whole system. Loading, it will be understood, takes place on the rising side of the elevator, whilst delivery is effected on the descending side. Thus if the cage is set to load, say, on the bottom floor of the loading side, the elevator delivers on the other side on the top floor. All the steel platforms on the loading side may be left undisturbed, as they will be pushed out of the way by the first loaded cage which passes. All those on the delivery side are moved into a vertical position, except those on the top floor, where the caicasses are arrested by a projecting steel platform as previously described, and deposited on the floor. The illustrations, Figs. 28 to 34, are from a paper on “ Continuous Package Con- veyors for Factories ” read by Mr W. H. Atherton (General Manager of the Chain Belt Engineering Co., Derby) before the Manchester Association of Engineers on the 15th February 1913; and the appliances shown in Figs. 35 to 39 are the manufacture of J. S. Hall, Newark-upon-Trent.