The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material

736 INDEX Granaries, list of principal British, 703 — mechanical equipment of, 674 Granaries at Avonmouth Dock, 696 — at Braila and Galatz, 672 — at Breslau, 681 — at Bromley-by-Bow, 684 — at Constanza, 672, 675 — at Dortmund, 687 — at Immingham Dock, 700 — at Liverpool, 670, 675 — at London and India Docks, 690 — at Manchester Docks, 692 — at Mannheim, 685 — at Stuttgart, 680 Grasshopper conveyor. See Zimmer Conveyor Gravity, conveying by, 195 Gravity bucket conveyors, 122 — — — advantages of, 123 —--------advantages and disadvantages for coaling railway engines, 620 — — —-as used in a chalk-handling plant, 657 —--------Babcock & Wilcox, 126 ---------Bar-Link, 128 ----— —■ Bleichert, 135 —--------Bradley, 126 —--------capacity of, 128, 133, 135, 139, 140 — ■ — — continuous bucket, 129 —--------delivery from, 122, 123, 126 —--------disadvantages of, 123 —---------- driving gear of, 122, 126, 134 ---------feeding device for, 122, 126, 127, 128, 133, 134, 137 —---- — for coaling railway engines, 620 — for larger individual loads, 138 — ■ — — handling alternately coal and ashes, 122 -------- •— Humboldt, 129 — — — Hunt, 123 — Link Belt Co.’s, 128 ---------lubrication of, 134 ----— negotiating curves, 124, 128, 130 — — — power required for, 123, 137, 141 ---------Schenck, 133 — speed of travel, 123, 128, 133, 139 ---------swinging bucket, 129 ---------terminals of, 133 Gravity conveyors, 197 — sack shoots, 195 — shoots, spiral, 196 Gray pin chain, 33, 101 Great Central Railway Co., coal tips at Immingham, 558 ----— granary at Immingham, 700 Great Western Railway Co., ballast wagons of, 497 Great Western Colliery Co.’s tips at Pontypridd, 532 Greaves’ coal face conveyor, 162 Gregoire’s coke loader, 367 Grimsby, coal loader at, 602 Gripping and other coupling devices for ropeways, 269, 276 Guarantee Construction Co. (New York), pneumatic installations designed by, 641, 659 HADDOCK, EDWIN J. (of Columbus), 82, 87 Hall’s elevators, 36 Hamburg Dock, typical floating elevator at, 483 Hammersmith Borough Council’s Electric Light Works, hydraulic coal conveyor at the, 228 Hampstead Colliery, coal face conveyor at the, 161 Handling ashes and clinkers, 631 Handling coke from coke ovens, 361 — hot coke in gasworks, 144 — material by pneumatic means, 207 — material continuously, 10 — material intermittently, 242 Hanffstengel, Georg von, 18, 120 Hartlepool, coal loader at, 606 Haviland & Farmer’s pneumatic system, 213 Ilawdon casting machine, 172, 177 — slag casting machine, 176 Haye, C. M. De La, 207 Head, Wrightson, & Co., Ltd., coal shipper erected by, 600 ---------coal tip built by, 561 Heckel, Ernst, ropeway installation by, 305 Heckel, Georg, rope haulage plant of, 252, 257 Heenan & Froude, Ltd., colliery tippler built by, 591 Henderson, John M., & Co., cableways of, 321 ----------- ropeways of, 199 Hermanns, Hub., 611 Heyl & Patterson casting machine, 171, 173 Hockstein ash ejector, 230 Hocking Valley Railroad Co., coal tip of the, 583 Hodgson, Charles, 264 Hone’s grabs, 405, 646 Hoover & Mason grab, 395 ----— ore-handling plant, 353 Hopper wagon, self-propelled, 505 — wagons, 494 — weighing machines, 705, 706 Hot coke conveyor, Bronder’s, 149 ---------De Brouwer’s, 151 — —- — Dempster’s, 155 Graham, Morton, & Co.’s, 147 —--------incline of, 151, 153, 155 ---------Marshall’s, 147 ----— Marshall-De Brouwer, 154 — — — Merz’s, 154 —---- New Conveyor Co.’s, 146 ------- — speed and capacity of, 145, 147, 150, 155 ---------West’s, 149 ---------Wild’s, 150 Hot coke in gasworks, handling of, 144 Howe’s delivery shoot, 103 Hulett unloader, 416 ----capacity of, 419, 420 Hull (Victoria Dock), coal loader at, 606 Human elevator, 11 Humber, loading coal on the, 603 Humboldt coke loader, 378 — continuous trough conveyor, 108 — gravity bucket conveyor, 129 Hunt (C. W., Co.) automatic railway, 511,635,639,650 ----grab, 400 ----gravity bucket conveyor, 123 ■ —■ — transporters, 449, 450 Hunter, Charles, engineer, Bute Docks, Cardiff, 588 Hunter, W. H., 694 Hurst, Nelson, & Co., Ltd., hopper-bottomed wagons built by, 495 Hutchinson, G. H. (North-Western Fuel Co.), 421, 653 Hydraulic coal conveyor, capacity of, 228 — conveying at the Hammersmith Borough Council’s Electric Light Station, 228 — grabs, 409 — means, conveying by, 228 — tip at Dortmund, 517 Hydro ash ejector, 229 Hydro-pneumatic underline ash expeller, 235