The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material

INDEX _____ . 74» Self-trimming barges of Hamburg-America Line, 480 — — — of Pittsburg Coal Co., 478 ----— of Werf Conrad, 480 Self-trimming lighter, Philip’s, 482 Self-unloaders. See Self-Emptying Wagons Shaking feeder, 205 Sharp and cutting material, conveyors for, 41 — or lively materials, elevating, 14, 21 Sheppard & Sons, Ltd., double tip built by, -533 Shoots and spouts from elevators, 26 —■ — incline of, 27, 195 Shovel-buckets, 320, 650 Silo granaries compared with floor granaries, 668 — warehouse (small), by R. Dinglinger, 683 Silos of bricks or cement, 668 — of ferro-concrete, 669 — of iron, 669 — of wood, 668 — their shape and construction, 668 — (transit) on the Thames, 694 Simon, Henry, Ltd., floating pneumatic elevator built by, 220 — — — grain-handling machinery at Immingham Dock, supplied by, 702 — Richard, & Sons, Ltd., “Nomis” automatic beam scale, 708 ----— automatic sack filling and weighing machine, 709 — — — spiral gravity sack shoot, 196 — Simplex ” grain scale, 716 Skip, self-discharging, of Taylor & Hubbard, 393 — with semicircular jaws, 394 Skips and grabs, discharging by means of, 392 — or shovel buckets, 320, 650 Slag casting machine, Hawdon, 176 Slaughter-house conveyors, 71 Slat conveyor (double service), 101 — or lattice conveyors, 101 Smith, Lyman, 207 — Roger T., 595 Smulders’ floating loader, 483 Soar’s coal-lowering apparatus, 615 — loader, 106 Société Anonyme d’O Ugree-Marihaye, “Thomas roller conveyor at, 183 S oc. Ilva (Bagnoli, near Naples), cokery at, 373 Soft and clinging materials, elevating, 14, 21, 23 Southall Gasworks, steel plate conveyor at, 98 South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, coaling railway engines on, 618 — — — self-discharging ballast wagon of, 501 Speed equalising gears for long link chains driven from hexagonal terminals, 192 Speed of Babcock & Wilcox tipping tray conveyor, 109 ----band conveyors, 89, 90, 142 ----Bolinder timber conveyor, 184, 186 cable trough conveyor, 68 — — cableways, 307, 321 ----continuous trough conveyors, 107, 142 — — elevators, 13, 15, 16, 20, 22, 23, 33 __ — endless rope haulage, 246, 249, 254, 256, 260, 262 ----endless trough conveyor, 107 — —furnace hoists, 347, 349 ______gravity bucket conveyor, 123, 128, 133, 139 __ — hot coke conveyors, 145, 147, 150, 155 ----pneumatic elevators, 213, 219, 220 ~ ______push-plate conveyors, 61, 62, 66, 67 Speed of ropeways, 266, 267, 268, 289, 290 —----- Sandvik steel belt conveyor, 97 — —■ telphers, 338, 339 — — transporters, 427, 431, 433, 434, 439 — — torpedo conveyor, 120 — — tubular worm conveyors, 55, 60 — —■ U-link conveyor, 62, 63 — — vibrating or reciprocating trough conveyors, 114, 118, 120, 121 -----worm conveyors, 46, 47 —■ — Zimmer conveyor, 114 Spencer & Co., Ltd., 93, 453, 457, 460, 469, 4/2, 482, 603, 604, 689, 691, 694 Spencer’s granary floor spouting, 689 Spielvogel, W., 455 Spilling of elevators, 14 Spiral gravity shoots, 196 —---------capacity of, 197 Spontaneous ignition of coal, 651, 663 -----—■ reasons for, 652 Spouts and shoots from elevators, 26 -----incline of, 27, 195 S quires, P., & Co., conveyor for meat at, 71 Stacking of coal, 651 Stahl und Eisen, 172, 269 Shapton, William, 677 Steel belt conveyor (flexible), 93 —---------idlers for, 95 —---------inclination of, 96 ----------intermediate delivery from, 93, 96 ------------------— steering gear for, 96 — ■ — — terminal drums of, 94 Steel Cable Engineering Co., 71, 100, 126, 128, 129, 137 ■ — plate conveyors, 98 Stephan, Dr P., 338 Stevenson coal tip, 526 Stock hoppers, feeding elevators from, 13 —■ piles or heaps, 355, 650 — — — on the “ Dodge” system, 653, 656 Stole coke loader, 383 Stone’s ash expeller, 238 — underline pneumatic ash ejector, 234 Storage plant for phosphates, 659 Storing coal and other-minerals in stock heaps and silos, 650 -----in silos, 661 Stuttgart, granaries at, 680 Suction and blast combined pneumatic system, 210 — nozzle for pneumatic elevator, 208, 209, 212, 219, 227 — pipes for pneumatic elevator, 208, 216, ‘218, 220, 223, 224, 225 — system (pneumatic), 209 Suess conveyor, 46, 55 -----capacity of, 60 Sun Flour Mills (Bromley-by-Bow), granaries at, 684 Sunderland gravity coal shipper. 529 Suplee, H. H., on “ The Replacement of Man by the Machine,” 2 Surrey Commercial Docks, pneumatic grain-handling installation at, 220 Sutcliffe, Richard, coal face conveyor of, 161 Swinging bucket conveyor, 129 — conveyor. See Zimmer Conveyor — plate feeder, 204 Swing tray elevators and lowerers, 31, 34, 138 — elevators, capacity of. 33 power required, 33 ______________________________________________________________