The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material

INDEX ID Bullivant & Co., Ltd., endless rope haulage plants, 249, 250 ---— ropeway installations, 269, 282 ---------wear and tear of ropes, 275 Bunker coal face conveyor, 160 Bunnell, Sterling H., on “The Cableway and its Uses,” 307 Burnett coke loader, 374 “ Burntisland” anti-breakage box, 549 Button rope of the aerial cableway, 310, 313 CABLE chain elevators, 26 — cranes or aerial cableways, 307 — hoist conveyors by Bleichert & Co., 316 Cable trough conveyors, 68-70 ---------angle station of, 69 — — — intermediate outlet of, 68 ---------power consumed by, 70 — — retarding of, 70 Cableways, or cable cranes, 307 — aerial dumping, 309 — button rope of, 310, 313 — Calhoun, 319 — capacity of, 314, 316, 321 — electrically driven, 313 — main cable of, 313 — scraper or shovel buckets for, 308 — span of, 307, 315, 316, <321 — speed of, 307, 321 — tightening of, 313 Cableways erected by Bleichert & Co., 316 — -—- —John M. Henderson & Co., 321 ---— the Lidgerwood Manufacturing Co., 313 Calhoun cableway, 319 Canadian Pacific Railway, Hulett unloaders of, 419 Canal barge haulage, 252 Cannington Valley, cableway over, 322 Cantilever cranes. See Transporters Capacity of ash ejectors, 232, 241 — of Babcock & Wilcox tipping tray conveyor, 109 — of band conveyors, 89, 90 — of barge elevators, 452, 455, 457, 459, 464, 469, 471, 472 — of Bolinder timber conveyors, 184, 186, 187 — of cable trough conveyor, 70 — of cableways, 314, 316, 321 — of casting machines, 173 — of coal face conveyors, 161, 169 — of continuous trough conveyors, 107 — of elevators, 15, 16, 20, 22, 23, 33 — of endless chain and rope haulage plants, 245, 246, 249, 256, 260, 262 — of endless trough conveyor, 107 — of floating loading devices, 483, 485, 487)490, 491 — of grabs, 400, 402, 404, 408, 410 — of gravity bucket conveyors, 128, 133, 135, 139, 140 — of hot coke conveyors, 145, 147, 155 — of Hulett unloader, 419, 4'20 — of hydraulic coal conveyor, 228 — of lifting magnets, 411, 414 — of pneumatic installations, 208, 213, 216, 220, 222, •223, 225 — of push-plate conveyors, 66, 67 — of ropewavs, 280, 281, 282, 293, 294, 295, 299, 305, 306 — of Sandvik conveyor, 97 — of self-trimming barges, 477, 478, 480, 481, 482 Capacity of spiral gravity shoots, 197 — of swing-tray elevators, 33 — of telphers, 338 — of transporters, 427, 433, 439, 443, 450 — of tubular worm conveyors, 55, 60 — of U-link conveyor, 63 — of vibrating or reciprocating trough conveyors, 115,118 — of worm conveyors, 46, 47 — of Zimmer conveyor, 115 Cape Copper Co., mechanically equipped stock pile of, 659 Capell, Rev. George M., 207 Carcasses, elevators for, 29, 38 Cardiff'Corporation Electricity Works, tip at, 532 — elevator in a flour mill at, 14 — first Armstrong hydraulic tip at, 547 — movable coal tip at, 554 Careful handling of coal, 650 Cargoes of grain in ships, method of loading small parcels, 474 Carnegie Steel Co., furnace hoist of, 353 Carrington, W. T. H., M.Inst.C.E., 265, 267, 283 Case, Havelock, M.Inst.C.E., 287 Casks, elevators for, 29, 37 Gassier's Magazine, 1, 2, 229, 307, 329 Casting machine, Hawdon’s, 172, 177 — — Hawdon’s slag, 176 ---Heyl & Patterson, 171, 172, 173 ---Ramsay, 172, 174, 180 ---Uehling, 171, 172, 176 — — at the Ironworks of the Aplerbecker Hütte, 179 Casting machines, 171 — — advantages of, 171 ---capacity of, 173 ---— disadvantages of, 171 ---filling devices for, 175 — — power required by, 173, 174 Central London Railway Co., coal-handling plant of the, 636 Chain, Gall, 98 — Gaston, 245 — Gray pin, 33, 101 — Ley, 245 Chain and rope haulage, endless, 243, 245 — and wood slat or lattice conveyors, 101 — haulage for hand carts, 245 Chalk-handling plant, gravity bucket conveyor used in a, 657 Chester, W. R. (of Nottingham), 142, 144 Chicago drainage canal, cableway used on, 314 Chilian copper mine of Catémou, ropeway at, 290 Choking of elevators, 12, 25, 27 — Chronos” automatic grain scale, 208, 706 Clam-shell bucket. See Grabs Clark, D. B. (pioneer of lifting magnet), 411 Clark’s self-trimming barge, 477 Clee Hill, ropeway at, 305 Cleveland Dock, tip at, 583 Coal Age, The, 160, 162 Coal, automatic weighing machine for, 715 — breakage of, 9, 13 — careful handling of, 650 — deterioration during handling, 651 — spontaneous ignition of, 651, 663 ---------of, reasons for, 652 — stacking of, 651 — storing in silos of, 661 — warehousing of. general remarks, 663