The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material

INDEX Band conveyors, 75, 456, 483, 648, 678, 681, 699, 702 —---advantages and disadvantages, 97 ■ — —- advantages over tips, 595 — — belts of, 80 — — capacity and speed of, 89, 90, 142 • — — double service, 76 — - — drive, position of, 87 -----driving power required, 88, 142 -----driving terminals of, 86, 87 — — experiments with, 75, 80 — — feed regulation of, 79 — — for larger individual loads, 9'2 -----historical and introductory, 75 -----idlers for, 75, 79, 80, 83, 84, 85 — — idlers, diameter of, 85 -----inclined, 91 — — lubrication of idlers, 86 methods of joining belts, 83 —--portable, 613 -----Ridgway’s, 91 — — “Sandvik” flexible steel belt, 93 — — support of return strand, 86 —--tension of belts, 82 -----throw-off carriages for, 76, 77, 78, 80 -----tightening of, 76, 77 — — wear and tear of, 143 — — with woven wire belts, 83 -— conveyor of the Berlin Anhaitische Maschinenbau A .-G., 80 Barclay & Walker patents, 208 Barge elevators, 451 ■ — elevator at a Copenhagen flour mill, 458 — at Dresden-Reisa, 454 — — capacity, 452, 455, 457, 459, 464, 469, 471, 472 —---floating. See Floating Elevators — for coal, 453 — — for grain, 457 — — for handling sacks, 462 — — of Unruh & Liebig, 458 — — portable, 457 — — portable (for grain), 465 — — power required for, 455, 464, 469, 471, 472, 474 — — stationary, 452 -----travelling (at Avonmouth), 460 Barling equalising gear, 193 Bar-Link conveyor, 128, 129 Barrels, conveyor for, 138 Barry Docks, hydraulic tips at, 549, 551 Bartlett, C. O., & Snow Co., self-trimming barge built by, 478 Baxter, G. H., chief mechanical engineer, Clyde Navigation Trustees, 575, 580, 582 Beachy Head, lighthouse at, 282 Beard, W. H., Dredging Co., of New York, 409 Beaumont, R. IL, Company, of Philadelphia, 632 Beckett, W. T. C., chief engineer, Bengal-Nagpur Railway, 588 Beckett’s tip, 588 Bell, Lieut. C. E., R.N., plan for coaling at sea, 323 Bell, G. G., hydraulic conveying plant designed by, 228 Belt conveyors. See Band Conveyors Bennis, Ed., & Co.’s push-plate conveyor, 63 Bergman, A. (of Stockholm), 416 Berlin Anhaitische Maschinenbau A.-G., 64, 80, 108, 153, 158 Bethlehem Steel Co., 173 Bethune, tips at, 522 Blackett coal face conveyor, 162 Blake-Denison continuous weigher, 717 Blast-furnace hoists. See Furnace Hoists Blast system (pneumatic), 208 Bleichert, Adolf, 264 Bleichert & Co., 316, 408 Bleichert’s Aerial Transporters, Ltd., 290, 293, 294 — cable hoist conveyors, 316 — coke loader, 383 — coupling for ropeways, 271, 274, 293 — grab, 408 — gravity bucket conveyor, 135 — ropeways, 290 — transporters, 443 Bleichert-Otto coupling for ropeways, 270 Blocks of ice, elevators for, 29, 66 Bloom crop cuttings, conveyor for, 183 Blum, Dr, 619 Blundstone, S. R., 494 Board of Agriculture Statistics, 6 Board of Trade Coal Tables, 5 B oby, R., Ltd., pneumatic installation by, 223 Boiler-houses, coal and ash handling plants for, 630, 633 Bolinder timber conveyor, 183 —--- ---power, speed and capacity of, 184, 186, 187 Bothner, Oscar (of Leipzig), 207 Bothwell coal face conveyor, 160, 161 Brackenbury, II. J., on “Men and Machines,” 1-2 Bradley or pan and bucket conveyor, 126 Braila and Galatz, granaries at, 672 Breakage of coal, 9, 13 Brentwood Gasworks, ccal-handling plant at, 649 — — tip at, 534 Breslau, granaries at, 681 Bridge cranes. See Transporters Bristol (Avonbank Power Station), coal-handling plant at, 637 Bristol Gas Co., coal and coke handling plant of the, 646 British Admiralty, coal yard at Devonport, 421 ----ash ejectors used by, 232, 233, ‘237 — Museum, bas-relief at, 10, 11 Britton, P. W., on “Transport and Storage of Grain,” 15, 667, 668 Broken-bladed conveyor, 43 Bromberger Maschinenbauanstalt continuous trough conveyor, 108 Bronder’s hot-coke conveyor, 149 Brooklyn, coal-handling plant at King’s County Power Station, 635 Brooklyn Heights Railroad Co., coal-handling plant of, 634 — Waterworks, coal-handling plant at, 634 Brouquiére & Baze ash ejector, 233 Brown Hoisting Machinery Co., electric coal tip, 583 — —■ — electric travelling trolley, 427 — — — furnace hoists, 347, 353 ---------grabs, 395, 404, 423, 443, 660, 661 ----— transporters, 431, 443 Brunck coke loader, 378 Buenos Ayres Electric Power Station, coal-handling plant at, 640 — — Great Southern Railway, Temperley grab transporters of, 442 Buhle, Professor M., 319, 476, 633, 663 Bulk transit of grain by means of railway trucks, 505