The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material

INDEX 735 Experiments, Gerke’s, with coal face conveyors, 168 — - Haddock’s, with band conveyors, 82 — Hanffstengel’s, with torpedo conveyor, 120 — Lyster’s, with band conveyors, 75 — Lyster’s, with tubular worm conveyor, 55 — Robins’, with conveyor bells, 80 — Tyndall’s, with grain, 667 — Zimmer’s, with worm conveyors, 47, 48 Experiments on keeping quality of grain, 667 FEEDING device, apron conveyor feeder, 204 -----------for casting machines, 175 ----lifting gate feeder, 202 — ■ — oscillating, 28 — — plunger feeder, 204 — — reciprocating plate feeder, 204 — — revolving plate feeder, 203 ----roll feeder, 203 — — rotary paddle feeder, 203 — — screw conveyor feeder, 203 — — shaking feeder, 205 — ■ — swinging plate feeder, 204 ----undercut gate feeder, 202 — -— Weiss’s, 118 Feeding devices, automatic, 202 — — for gravity bucket conveyors, 122, 126, 127, 128 —----- drive from machine to be fed, 27 Feed on to band conveyors, 79 Fielding & Platt, Ltd., tips built by, 558 Fine materials, conveyors for, 40 Finger-tray elevators, 34, 36, 38 — ■ — for tea chests, etc., 35 Fires in flour mills, frequent cause of, 26 Flanged pulleys, as elevator terminals, 23 Flight conveyors. See Push-Plate or Scraper Con- veyors Floating coal-loading devices, with Temperley trans- porters, 491 — elevator at the Hamburg Docks, 483 — elevators or marine legs, 469 — grab transporter at Table Bay Harbour, 487 — loading devices, 483 — — — capacity of, 483, 485, 487, 490, 491 ----— general remarks, 491 ----— power consumed by, 483 — — — Smulders’, 483 Floating loader at Rotterdam, 487 Floor granaries compared with silos, 6G8 Flottmann coal face conveyor, 166 Flour elevators, 21 Flour mills, automatic handling in, 7 Fort William, Hulett unloaders at, 419 Fowler’s tippler, 590 Fraser & Chalmers, Ltd., 193, 604, 607 Fredenhagen, portable loading appliances by, 611, 613 French Navy, ash ejector used by the, 232 Frozen meat, elevator for, 37 Furnace hoists, 243, 346 — . — at the Carnegie Steel Co., 353 ----at Palmer’s Shipbuilding Co., 349 ----Brown Hoisting Machinery Co. ’s, 347, 353 — — discharge of, 348 ----horse power required for, 34“, 349, 350 — — Lürmann’s, 351 — — Pohlig, 349 ----speed and capacity of, 347, 349, 350, 353 GA LATZ and Braila, granaries at, 67‘2 Gall chain, 98 Gass, H. H., 289 Gaston chain, 24-5 Gasworks, coal, coke, and ash handling plants for, 630, 644 Gasworks, use of telphers in, 632 Gatun locks, Panama, cableways at, 314 Gaythorne Gasworks, hot coke conveyor at, 145 Gear drives for elevators, 26 Gerke, Arthur, data concerning coal face conveyors, 168 ------“ Ueber Abbauförderung,’’ 159, 168 Gibb coal face conveyor, 160, 161 Giese, E., 619 Glasgow Corporation Gasworks, coke-handling plant at, 659 Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd., 50° Glycerine, use of, in hydraulic tips, 519 Goodall coke loader, 386 Goodwin coal truck (self-emptying), 500 Goole Docks, tips at, 561 Gourock Ropework Co., Ltd., conveyor for bobbins at the, 140 Grabs, appliances similar to, 410 — Bleichert’s, 408 — Brown Hoisting Machinery Co.’s, 395, 404 — capacity of, 400, 402, 404, 408, 410 — disadvantages of, 395 — discharging by means of, 392 — efficiency of, 397 — electrically driven, 410 — Hone’s, 405 — Hoover & Mason’s, 395 — Hunt’s, 400 — hydraulic, 409 — Jaeger’s, 402 — Mohr & Federhaff s, 400 — “Orange-peel,” 395, 407 — ■ pneumatic, 409 — Priestman, 398 — Salomon’s experiments with, 395 — Temperley, 395 — Wellman-Seaver-Morgan, 395 Graham, Morton, & Co., barge elevator erected by, 453 hot coke conveyor of, 147 Grain, bulk transit of, by means of railway trucks, 505 — Doyere’s experiments with, 667 — experiments on keeping quality of, 667 — heating of, 666 — hygroscopic nature of, 667 — • Tyndall’s experiments with, 667 — warehousing of, 666 Grain elevator, largest in United Kingdom, 15 Grain elevators, 14, 16 --general remarks, 20 ------pneumatic, 20S-223 Grain scale, Avery’s, 710 — “ Chronos,” 706 ------“ Nomis,” 708 ------“ Simplex,” 716 Granary, ancient Egyptian, 666 — ■ buildings, 673 — silos, their shape and construction, 668 — typical modern, 696 Granaries, comparison between floor and silo systems, 668 — floor spouting (Spencer’s); 689