The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material

734 INDEX Delivery shoot, Howe’s, 103 Dempster’s hot coke conveyor, 155 Denison, Samuel, & Son, Ltd., 7'20 Deterioration of coal by handling, 651 Devonport, coal yard of British Admiralty at, 421 Dingier's Polytechnisches Journal, 395 Dinglinger, Rudolf, 521, 680, 681. 683 Disadvantages of grabs, 395 -—of coal face conveyors, 16'2 — of gravity bucket conveyors, 123 — of pneumatic elevators, 207 Discharge from elevators, 14 Dixon, Walter, 575, 580, 582 “ Dodge” system of stock piles, 653, 656 Dorada Railway Extension Co., ropeway of the, 281 Dortmund, granaries at, 687 — tip at, 517 Double service band conveyor, 76 ---slat conveyor, 101 Doxford coaling barge, 480 — self-trimming barge, 482 Draining and conveying washed coal, 116 Driving power. See Power required Driving terminals of band conveyors, 86,87 Drummond end flights, 53 Dublin United Tramway Power Station, coal-handling plant at the, 635 Duckham, F. E., M.Inst.C.E., 209 Duckham’s pneumatic system, 211, 692 Dücker, Baron F. F. von, ropeway by, 264 Dumbrick Pavell, coke conveyors ar, 366 Dunston-on-Tyne, barge elevator at, 466 Durban, coal-shipping plant at, 606 Dust collector of pneumatic elevator, 214, 215, 219 — from elevators, 21 EAGLE Oil Mills, barge elevator at the, 457 Earliest construction of worm conveyor, 42 East Ferry Road Engineering Co., 220 Eckersley’s Ltd., swing tray elevator at, 139 Edleston & Harris, 456 Efficiency of grabs, 397 Eickhoff coal face conveyor, 166 Electric Controller and Manufacturing Co., lifting magnets made by the, 411 Electrical cableways, 313 Electrically driven grabs, 410 Elevating flour, 21 — sharp or lively materials, 14, 21, 23 — soft and clinging materials, 14, 21 “ Elevator,” American term for granary, 668 Elevator at a Cardiff Flour Mill, 14 — bands, 23 — bands, fraying out of, 24 — buckets, 20, 21 — buckets, attachment of, 22 — buckets of special construction, 15, 20 — buckets, shape of, 22 — buckets, size and pitch of, 16 — human, 11 — largest, for grain in the United Kingdom, 15 — pulleys (flanged), 23 — spouts and shoots, 26 — tightening gears, 11, 26, 191 — webbing, tightening of, 23 — well of masonry, 26 — with two upper terminals, 18 Elevators, Archimedean screw, 26 Elevators, cable-chain, 26 — capacity of, 15, 16, 20, 22, ‘23, 33 — cause of fire in flour mills. 26 — choking of, 12, 25, 27 — clean delivery from, 17, 19 — continuous bucket, 19 — ■ delivery shoots from, 14, 18 — driven by separate pulleys, 24, “25 — dtist from, 21 — feeding device; for, 27, 202 — finger tray, 34, 36, 38 — finger tray (for tea chests, etc.), 35 — - gear drives for, 26 — grain, 14, 15, 20 — Hall’s (for sacks), 36 — having both terminals combined into one, 29 — incline of, 13 — inspection doors in, 23 — jamming of, 12 — mineral, 16, 26 — mineral, speed and capacity of, 16 — number driven by one shaft, 25, 26 — overloading of, 20, 27 — perfect discharge from, 14 — pneumatic, 207 — portable (for loading), 613 — position and speed of, 13 — power required, 26 — rigid arm, 30, 31 — speed of, 13, 15, 16, 20, 22, 23, 33 — spilling of, 14, 23 — swing tray, 31, 34 — swing tray, capacity of, 33 — swing tray, power required, 33 — theoretical capacity of, 15 — wear and tear of, 142 Elevators and conveyors combined, 122 Elevators for blocks of ice, 29, 66 — for carcasses, 29, 38 — for casks, 29, 37 — for coke, 19 — for feeding roller runways, 200 — for fireproof buildings, 21, 24 — for flour mills, 22 — for frozen meat, 37 — for grain and other light materials, 14, 15, 20 — for large objects, 29 — for minerals, 16, 26 — for packing cases, 29 — for sacks, 36 Eiligen coupling for ropeways, 272 Emden (Holland), electrically-driven tip at, 574 Endless chain and rope haulage, 245 — or continuous trough, tray, or pan conveyor, 106 — trough conveyor, advantage of, 107 — — — incline of, 107 — ■— — speed and capacity of, 107 Engineer, The, 172, ‘211, 323, 472, 588, 600, 619, 1 696 Engineering, 211, 551, 558, 584, 587 Engineering and Mining /ournal, 17’2 Engineering of Antiquity, 10, 666 Engineering Supplement, The Times, 6 Equalising gear, Barling, 193 — — Link-Belt, 193 ■-----Toogood, 192 Everett’s loading device, 105, 106 Ewart or pinless chain, 33, 98, 615 Expenses. See Cost Experiments, Doyére’s, with grain, 667