The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material

INDEX ACETYLENE slurry, portable loader for, 613 Admiralty, the British, 232, 421 Advantages of band conveyors over tips, 595 — of casting machines, 171 — of coal face conveyors, 162 — of gravity bucket conveyors, 123 — of pneumatic elevators, 207, 215 —• and disadvantages of coaling railway engines by gravity bucket conveyors, 620 Aerial cableways. See Cableways. Air traps for pneumatic elevators, 212, 214, 215, 216, 218, 221, 222, 227 Albert, Professor, of Clausthal, 263 Alexandra Dock, Newport, Mon., tip at, 553 Alexandra grain warehouse, Liverpool, 675 Allardice coal face conveyor, 163 Allport coke-loader, 376 American Engineer and RailroadJournal, 525 American practice of coaling railway engines, 619 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pro- ceedings of the, 82, 88, 202, 421, 653 American Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 323 American Society of Naval Engineers, Journal of the, ±Tl Amme, Giesecke & Konegen, 463, 469 Angle station, of cable trough conveyor, 69 -----of rope haulage, 246, 256 ------of ropeways, 281, 291, 292, 296, 297, 305 — — of Zimmer conveyor, 113 Anti-breakage box, “Burntisland,” 549 — — Thomas’s, 557 Antwerp, coaling railway engines at, 623 Apron conveyor feeder, 204 “ Aquitania,” 241 Archimedean screw elevator, 26 — screw or worm conveyor, 42 Archimedes, 42 Armstrong (Sir W. G.), Whitworth & Co., Ltd., 546, 547, 549, 554, 561, 563, 564, 566, 586, 588 Army and Navy Register, Washington, 335 Arrol, Sir William, & Co., Ltd., 433 Ash ejection, development of, 229 Ash ejectors, Brouquiére & Baze, 233 -----capacity of, 232, 241 —- — Hochstein’s, 230 ----- hydro, 229 -----Körting’s, 232 -----latest developments of, 232 -----pipes for, 232 — — power necessary for, 241 — — See’s, 230 — —■ Trewent & Proctor’s, 237 -----water consumed by, 232 — — water pressure necessary, 237, 238 Ash expeller, hydro-pneumatic underline, 235 -----Stone’s, 238 Ash hoists, 229 Ash hopper, Thorne’s, 230 Ashes and clinkers, handling of, 631 Ashes-handling, Darley system, 641 -----plant at Sydney, Australia, 641 — removal from locomotives, 628 — removal from railway engines at M‘Kees Rock Shunting Station, Pittsburg, 628 Aspinall, John A. F., M.Inst.C.E., 582 Aston Manor Electric Power Station, coal-handling at, 639 Atherton, W. H., M.Sc. (of Derby), 39, 197 Atmospheric Grain Elevator Co., Ltd., 208, 209 Aumund’s “curved” tip, 536 Automatic beam scale, “Nomis,” 708 — continuous weighing machine, 705, 717 — feeding devices, 202 — feeding devices for elevators, 27 — grain scale, Avery’s, 710 — hopper weighing machines, 70.5, 706 — intermittent weighing machines, 706, 722 — lowerers, 201 — scale for coal, coke, minerals, etc., 715 —• weighing of material, 705 — weighing machine, “ Chronos,” 208, 706 Avery, W.‘& T., Ltd., 710, 715, 722, 723 Avery’s automatic conveyor weigher, 722 -----grain scale, 473, 710 — — hopper weigher, 722 — -— overhead weigher, 725 — — scale for coal, coke, and minerals, 715 -----truck weighbridge, 723 — — tub weighing machine, 724 -----weighing machine for provender mills, 713 -----weighing machine for sacking-off purposes, 713 Avonbank Power Station, coal-handling plant at the, 637 Avonmouth Dock, barge elevator at, 460 — Dock granary, 696 — - Dock, tip at, 586 Babcock & wilcox, Ltd., 10s, no, 126, 512, 623, 640, 659 ----gravity bucket conveyor, 126 — installation of coal and ash bunkers and stock yard, 637 ----tipping tray conveyor, 108, 110 Baden State Railway, self-unloaders of the, 497 Baglin coke loader, 363 Baldwin, C. Kemble (of Chicago), 81, 88, 202 Bale Gasworks, coke-conveying installation at, 153 Ball, J. B. (of Great Central Railway Co.), 702 Ballast wagons of the Great Western Railway, 497 Banana carriers for loading and unloading vessels, 456 Banana unloader, 455