The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material

INDEX 733 Colliery Guardian, 160, 162 Colliery tips. See Tipplers — tub weighing machines, Avery’s, 724 Combined elevators and conveyors, 122 — suction and blast system (pneumatic), 210 Commans, R. E., 295, 299 Commichau push-plate conveyor, 74 Compressed Air Power Co., Ltd., 208 Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa, cableway of, 316 Constanza, granary at, 672, 675 Continuous bucket conveyor, 129 — bucket elevator, 19 — or endless trough, tray, or pan conveyor, 106 — travelling trough conveyor with partitions, 137 — trough conveyor, advantages of, 107 —--------incline of, 107 ---------intermediate discharge from, 107 —--------speed and capacity of, 107, 142 Continuous weigher, Avery’s, 7'22 ---Blake-Denison, 717 ---Merrick, 720 — weighing machines, 705, 717 — - worm conveyors, 44 Conveying by gravity, 195 — ■ by hydraulic means, 228 Conveying Weigher Co. (of New York), 86 Conveyor and Elevator Co., worm conveyors of the, 52 Conveyor belts or bands, 80 —----- Robins’ type, 81 — ■ — troughing of, 83 — • — ult imate working strength of, 82 Conveyors, band, 75 — Bolinder timber, 183 — bottling stores (for), 188 — cable trough, 68 — chain and wood slat or lattice, 101 — coal face, 159 — continuous travelling trough with partitions, 137 — continuous trough, tray, or pan, 106 — Darley suction, 224 — gravity bucket, 122 — hot coke, 145 — hydraulic, 228 — introductory remarks, 40 — miscellaneous, 182 — picking belts or tables, 102 — pneumatic, 207 — push-plate or scraper, 61 — - push trough, 72 — reciprocating or vibrating trough, 111 — roller (gravity), 182 — roller (live), 182 — - “ Sandvik ” flexible steel belt, 93 — slat, 101 — steel plate, 98 — swinging or gravity bucket, 122 — tubular worm, 53 — vibrating or reciprocating trough, 111 — wear and tear of, 142 — ■ worm or Archimedean screw, 42 Conveyors for bales, 101 — for barrels, 138 — for bloom crop cuttings, 183 — for bottles, jars, tins, etc., 101 — for bottling stores, etc., 188 — for bundles of loose newspapers, 140 — for carcasses, 71 — for coarse materials, 40 — for crates, open, 101 Conveyors for draining washed coal, 116 — for foundry sand, 73 — for fine materials, 40 — for hot coke in gasworks, 144 — for ice, 60 — for larger individual loads, 138 — for meat, 70, 71 — for packages, 101 — for sharp and cutting materials, 41 — for skips with cops of cotton yarn, 139 — for slaughter-houses, 71 — for sorting chips in wood pulp mills, 100 — for sulphate of ammonia in bags, 101 —■ for tea chests, 138 —■ for timber, 67, 68, 183 Conveyors and elevators, combined, 122 — handling alternately coal and ashes, 122, 127 “Conweigh” ball-bearing idlers, 85, 86 Cooke, C. T. B., M.Inst.C.E., 617, 623 Coppée Company’s coke loader, 379 Cork-Bandon South Coast Railway, ropeway of, 280 Cornbrook Brewery Co., Ltd., bottle-handling installation at, 190 “ Cornet ” conveyor, 109, 110 Cost of coal getting by coal face conveyors, 168 — of coaling railway engines, 620 — of handling coke, 144, 145 — of maintenance of ropeways, 275, 280 — of pneumatic handling, 220 — of transit of grain, 506 — of transport by ropeways, 275, 281, 294 — ■ of unloading railway wagons by hand, 494 — of working coal tips at Rothesay Dock, 580 Coulson & Co., Ltd., chain haulage plant of, 246 ---coke conveyor of, 363 Couper, R. M., 649 Coupling gudgeons for worm conveyors, 52, 53 Cowans^. Sheldon, & Co., Ltd., 529, 587 Cowans-Sheldon crane tip, 587 Cramlington Coal Co., Zimmer picking conveyors at the, 116 ---Wrightson coal shipper at the, 600 Crane tip, Cowans, Sheldon, & Co.’s, 587 ---(hydraulic) at Middlesbrough, 586 Cranked elevator, 34 Creepers, or tub-hauls, 245 Crescent-blaried worm conveyor, 43 Crewe, coaling railway engines at, 623 — old coaling stage at, 617 Cummings & Gardner coal face conveyor, 160, 161 Cunard Line, ash ejectors used by, 237 Curving rollers for band conveyors, 79, 80 Curved tip, 536 Cutler-Hammer Co.’s lifting magnet, 413 Cyclone grain transfer barge, 207 DANISH Coal Co., coal store of, 664 ------transporters of, 449 Darby coke quencher, 369 Darley Engineering Co., 224 — suction conveyor, 225, 641, 659 — system. See Darley Suction Conveyor — system of ash handling, 641 Darmstadt Gasworks, coal-handling plant at, 644, 648 De Brouwer hot coke conveyor, 151 Delivery nozzle of pneumatic elevator, 213 — of gravity bucket conveyors, 122, 123, 126 — shoot from elevators, 14, 18