The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material

INDEX Rapier coaling crane, 588 Reciprocating plate feeder, 204 — trough conveyors, 111 Remo Inclined Truck Elevator Co., 245 Renard, L. C., 207 Retarding cable trough conveyor, 70 Reuther & Reisert, weighing machine built by, 706 Revolving plate feeder, 203 Riches, T. H., 558 Ridgway’s belt conveyor, 91 Rigg’s colliery tippler, 590 — power-driven colliery tippler, 592 Rigid arm elevators, 30, 31 Ritchie & Sutcliffe coal face conveyor, 162, 163 River Wear Commissioners, coal shipper of, 529 . Robins, Samuel M., 607 — Thomas, 80 — Conveying Belt Co., band conveyor idlers of, 84 _________________ portable band conveyor built by, 614 — type conveyor belt, 82 Robinson, Thomas, & Son, Ltd., grain-handling plant supplied by, 684 Roe, J. Pearce, 277 Roll feeder, 203 Koller conveyors, 182 — conveyor, Thomas’s, 182 — runways, 197 — trains, 182 Rope, pre-historic, 243 t — use of, in ancient Assyria, 242 Rope haulage, endless, 246 —---------angle station for, 246, 256 _________at Premier Diamond Mines, 249 — clip for, 249 ----------for canal barges, 252 ----------gradient of, 246 __ — — “jockeys" for, 247, 248, 250, 252, 261 — — — power required for, 260, 262 --------speed and capacity, 245, 246, 249, 254, 256, 260, 262 — — — tightening of rope, 247, 252 ----------truck tipper for, 248 Ropeways, 263 — advantages and disadvantages of the two systems, 275 — angle stations for, 281, 291, 292, 296, 29/, 305 — automatic and self-acting, 265, 269, 290, 291 — capacity of, 280, 281, 282, 293, 294, 295, 299, 305, 306 — clips and saddles for, 266, 268, 2,6, 277 — cost of maintenance, 275, 280 — cost of transport by, 275, 281, 294 — curious old, at Dantzig, 263 — double, 268 — electrically driven, 306 — gradient or incline of, ‘266, 268, 269, 294 — gripping and other coupling devices for, 269, 276 — power required for, 265, 281, 297 — primitive Chinese, 243 — ropes used, 268, 275, 283, 288 — shunt rails for, 266, 267, 268, 295 — single, 266 — skip, bucket, or carrier employed on, 263, 266, •267, 269, 274, 279, 292, 293 . - (- — span between two supports, 266, 269, 275, 2/9, 287, 290, 294, 295 — speed of, 266, 267, 268, 289, 290 — terminals of, 266, 267, 268, 281, 284, 290, 291, 292 — tightening of, 266, 292, 297 — “ wayleaves” for, 265 Ropeways, weather conditions affecting, 265, 269, 270, 294 Ropeways erected by Bleichert’s Aerial Transporters, Ltd., 290 — — by Bullivant & Co., Ltd., ‘282 ----by Heckel, Ernst, 305 — — by Henderson, J. M., & Co., 299 ----by Pohlig, J., 295 — — by Ropeways, Ltd., 277 — — by Wright, J. & E., 306 Rotary paddle feeder, 203 Rothesay Dock, electric tips at, 575 Rotterdam, electrically driven tip at, 566 — floating loader at, 487 — hydraulic tips at, 563 Ruhrort Harbour, tip at, 520 Rutsche. See Coal Face Conveyors SACK filling and weighing machine, Avery’s, 713 ------------Simon’s, 709 — shoots, gravity, 195 Sacks, elevators for, 36 St Louis, use of wheelbarrows for coaling ships at, 4 Salomon’s experiments with grabs, 395 Salt, loading into railway trucks, 614 — portable loading, device for, 611 — store, mechanically equipped, 661 Sam’s tippler, 591 Sandvik flexible steel belt conveyor, 93 Schenck conveyoi, 133 Scböndeling coke loader, 390 Scientific American, 584 Scraper or push-plate conveyors, 61 — or shovel-bucket for aerial cableways, 308 Screw conveyor feeder, 203 Seek Engineering Co., barge elevator for grain, 455 ---------pneumatic coal conveyor, 227 See’s ash ejectors, 229, 237 Self-discharging skip of Taylor & Hubbard, 393 Self-dumping skips or buckets, 392 Self-emptying hopper wagons, unloading by means of, 494 — — wagons, Goodwin, 500 —--------Hunt automatic, 511 ---------self-propelled (60-ton), 505 _________tare of, 496, 497, 503 _________Willich’s, 499 _____ . — of the Alquife Mines and Railway Co., 495 — of the Baden State Railway, 497 _________of the Great Western Railway, 497 _________of the Leeds Forge Co., Ltd., 501 _________of the London and North-Western Railway, 497 ---------of the Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon, and Finance Co., Ltd., 503 ---------of the North-Eastern Railway, 497 __ —. — of the Pennsylvanian Railway, 505 Self-emptying or self-trimming barges, 476 Self-trimming barges, capacity of, 477, 478, 480, 481, 482 ------Clark’s, 477 —-----Paul’s, 476 ------Philip’s, 482 — — — power required for, 480, 483 _____— in New York Harbour, 477 i--------— of Wm. Doxford & Sons, 480, 483 74° ___________ __________________________ _____________________________