The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material

INDEX 737 ICE (blocks), elevators for, 29 Ice conveyors, 66 Idlers for band conveyors, 83, 84, 85, 86 —--------angle of, 85 ---------ball-bearing, 85, 86 — -------diameter of, 85 ---------jamming of, 85, 86 ---------pitch of, 86 Illig coke loader, 382 Illinois Steel Co., 411 ■--------ore-handling plant of, 353 Immingham Docks, granary at, 700 ---tips at, 558 Incline of elevators, 13 — of shoots, 27, 195 ■ of tip cradle necessary for discharge, 577 Inclined band conveyors, 91 — roller runways, 197 Indianapolis Light and Heat Co., coal storage plant of, 659 Industrial Magazine, 411 Institzition of Civil Engineers, Proceedings of, 15, 211, 217, 617, 623, 667, 668 Institzition of Mechanical Engineers, Proceedings of, 75, 517, 575, 583, 587, 595, 609, 610, 670, 677 Institute of Mining Engineers, 160 Intermediate delivery from band conveyors. See Throw-off Carriages ---------cable trough conveyors, 68 — — — continuous or endless trough conveyors, 107 — — — steel plate conveyors, 98. — ------Zimmer conveyor, 114 Intermittent handling of material, 242 — weighing machines, 722 Iron Age, of New York, 360, 423 Iron and Coal Trades' Review, 106, 160, 172, 360, 600, 607, 651 Irving, D. (of Bristol Gas Co.), 646, 651 Isle of Elba, ropeway in, 297 JAACKS & BEHRNS, 207 Jaeger grabs, 402 Jamming of elevators, 12 Japanese coal industry, 600 Jeffrey Manufacturing Co., 70, 107 Jenkin, Prof. Fleeming, M.I.C.E., 337 Jenkins, W. J., & Co., Ltd., 386 Tockeys or clips for endless rope haulage, 247, 248, 250, 252, 261 Jog-trough coal face conveyor, 163, 170 KAY, H. G., 246 Kellner & Flottman coke loader, 385 Kickert’s coke loader, 364 Kidderpur Dock (Calcutta), coal shipping plant at, 607 —--------tip at, 588 Koch belt conveyor, 103 Korting’s ash ejector, 232 Kreiss, Eugen, 111 Krupp, Friedrich, tips built by, 517, 521 47 LAKE VIEW Gold Mines, ropeway at, 295 Large individual loads, conveyors for, 138 Large objects, elevators for, 29 Layard, Sir Henry, bas-reliefs discovered by, 10, 243 Leeds Forge Co., Ltd., ballast wagon of the, 501 Leetham & Sons’ Flour Mills, pneumatic grain elevator at, 222 — — — — sack conveyor at, 92 Lehoen Pressed Steel Co., wagons built by, 495 Lene’s plan for keeping ropes taut during coaling at sea, 334 Lewis & Hunter’s coal tip at Cardiff, 587 Lewis, Sir William T., 588 Ley chain, 245 Lidgerwood cableways, 313 — Manufacturing Co., 313, 329, 333, 510 — - rapid unloader, 508 — • — — capacity of, 510 Lidgerwood-Miller marine transfer for broadside coaling in harbour, 487 Liege Gasworks, tip at, 540 Lifting gate feeder, 202 Lifting magnets, 410 — — Clark type, 411 -----cost of working, 414 Cutler-Hammer Co.’s, 413 -----test of, 414 Witton-Kramer Co.’s, 414 Link-Belt Co., 17, 53, 64, 107, 137, 193, 338, 456 Link-Eelt Co.’s equalising gear, 193 '----gravity bucket conveyor, 128 Liverpool Docks, band conveyor throw-off carriage at, 78 -----granaries at, 670 Loaders (coal) at Albert Edward Dock on the Tyne, 606 — — at Durban, 606 — .— at Grimsby, 602 -----at Hartlepool, 606 -----at Hull, 606 -----on the Humber, 603 -----at Kidderpur Dock, Calcutta, 607 — — at Middlesbrough, 604 -----at Port Miike, 595 — — at Port Talbot, 604 -----Soar’s, 615 -----at Tyne Dock, 606 -----at Whitehaven, 606 -----Wrightson coal shipper, 600 Loading coal (by gravity), Wall’s system, 607 —--------at Tyne Docks, 609 Loading coal into ships otherwise than by tips, 594 — device, Everett’s, 105, 106 — salt into railway trucks, 614 Locomotives, coaling of, 617 London and India Docks, silo granaries at, 690 — and North-Western Railway, self-unloaders of, 497 — Grain Elevator Co. (see also Port of London Authority), 690 Long’s coal tip, 583 Low, The Hon. Phillip B., plan for coaling at sea, Lowerers, automatic, 201 Lowering coal, Soar’s apparatus for, 615 Lowry, Lieut. R. S., plan for coaling at sea, 323 Lubrication of band conveyor idlers, 86 Lürmann furnace hoist, 351 Luther, G., 213, 661, 663, 672, 685 Lyster, George Fosbery, 35, 75, 77, 79, 670