The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material

INDEX 732 Coal and ashes, conveyor for handling alternately, 122, 127 — — ■—handling plant at Massachusetts Cotton Mills, 641 ---------handling plant of Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co., 641 — ■ handling plant of Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co., 640 Coal and coke handling plant of the Bristol Gas Co., 646 Coal bunkers of the U.S.A. Navy Yard at Norfolk, 630 Coal, coke, and ash handling plants for boiler-houses, gasworks, etc., 630 Coal conveyors, pneumatic, 226 Coal face conveyor, Allardice, 163 -------- — Blackett, 162 ---------Bothwell, 160. 161 ---------Bunker, 160 • — —• — Cummings & Gardiner, 160, 161 -----— Eickhoff, 166 —--------Flottmann, 166 ---------- Gibb, 160, 161 — — — Greaves, 162 -----— Korfmann, 167 ---------Mickley, 160, 161 ■ —• —■ — Ritchie & Sutcliffe, 162, 163 —--------Thomson, 160, 161 -----— Walton & Rayner, 160, 161 Coal face conveyors, 159 — advantages of, 162 ----------- capacity of, 161, 169 ---------concluding remarks, 170 ----------- disadvantages of, 162 --------■ experiments with, 168 — — — in which the coal is carried in a receptacle, 159 -----■—-in which the coal is carried on an endless movable band, 161 —--------in which the coal is dragged along in a fixed trough by a chain or scrapers, 162 in which the coal is propelled by a recipro- cating motion, 163 —--------jog-trough, 170 -------- — motors for, 166 stroke and speed of travel, 166 ■-------- working expenses of, 168 Coal-handling plant at Aston Manor Electric Power Station, 639 -----Avon bank (Bristol) Power Station, 637 — — Brentwood Gasworks, 649 ----------------Brooklyn Heights Railroad Co., 634 -----Brooklyn Waterworks, 634 — ■ —■ Buenos Ayres Grand Central Electric Power Station, 640 — — Darmstadt Gasworks, 644 — — Duluth, 423 -----Juniata Works, Altona, Pittsburg, 633 — King’s County Electric Light and Power Station, Brooklyn, 634 — — Nuremberg Gasworks, 648 - - — Provan Gasworks (Glasgow), 659 — — Shepherd’s Bush (C. L. Ry. Co.), 636 —----- United Tramway Power Station, Dublin, 635 Coal lowering device, Norton’s, 118 Coal shippers. See Loaders (coal) Coal store of the Danish Coal Co., 664 Indianapolis Light and Heat Co., 659 ---------Philadelphia and Reading Railways, 656 Coal Tables, Board of Trade, 5 Coal tips or hoists. See Tips Coaling a battleship at Nagasaki, 3 Coaling at sea, Bell’s plan, 324 — — Bell’s requirements, 324 -----capacity, 331, 335, 336 — ■.— coal supply, 329 — — difficulties during the Spanish-American War, 327 — — French experiments, 328 — — latest developments, 335 — —• Lene’s plan, 334 — — Low’s plan, 325 — — Niblack’s plan, 326 — - — speed of craft, 331 — — Tupper’s plan, 324 — — Walsh’s plan, 326 Coaling vessels at sea, 243, 323 Coaling of railway engines, 617 Coaling railway engines, American practice, 619 -----at Antwerp, 623 — — by gravity, 619 — — cost of, 620 —---- Crewe (L. and N.W. Ry.), 623 — — Munich Central Railway, 621 — — Nagykanizsa, 29 -------- Pennsylvania Railway, 620 S.E. and C. Ry., 618 — — time occupied by, 628 — — mechanically in England, reasons against, 623 Coaling stage (old) at Crewe, 617 Coarse materials, conveyors for, 40 Coke anti-breaker, Peel’s, 371 Coke, automatic weighing machine for, 715 — cost of handling, 144, 145 Coke breaking and sorting plant, 158 Coke conveyor, Coulson & Co.’s, 363 — - -—■ Mtiller’s, 365 — - — Wangeman’s, 374 — — at Dumbrick Pavell, 366 Coke elevators, 19 — from coke ovens, handling of, 243 — handling plant, portable, 615 Coke loader, Allport’s, 376 — — Baglin’s, 363 — — Bleichert’s, 383 -----Brunck, 378 —- — Burnett’s, 374 —---- Coppée Co.’s, 379 — — Fabry, 379 -----Goodall, 386 -----Gregoire, 367 -----Humboldt’s, 378 -----Wig’s, 382 — —- Kellner & Flottman’s, 385 — — Kickert’s, 364 — — Méguin, 375 -----Moore’s, 381 — — Schondeling, 390 —• — Stole’s, 383 —- — Wellman-Seaver, 380 at the new Brancepeth Colliery, 376 — — of the Weardale Steel, Coal, and Coke Co., 386 Coke quencher, the Darby, 369 — quenchers, 368, 370 Cokery of the Mines de Béthune in Bully les Mines, 384 — of the Soc. Ilva at Bagnoli, near Naples, 373 — of the de Wendel, at Gross-Moyeuvre, 378 — of the Woodward Iron Co., Woodward, U.S.A., 376