The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material

742 INDEX TABLE BAY Harbour, floating grab transporter at, 487 Talbot self-unloaders, 291 Tannett-Walker, Colonel F. W., 551 Tannett, Walker, & Co., 558 Taylor & Hubbard, self-discharging skip of, 393 Tea chests, conveyors for, 138 Telphers, 243, 291, 306, 337, 650, 661 — automatic installation by Bleichert & Co., 343 — lifting speed of, 339 — speed and capacity of, 338, 339 — Strachan & Henshaw’s, 339 — their use in gasworks and power stations, 632 — travelling speed of, 339 Temperley, Joseph, 433 — grab, 395, 427 — grab transporters, 441 — portable transporters, 442 — transporter, 433 — — at Vizcaya Works, Bilbao, 439 — — at West Ham Electric Station, 440 ---at West Middlesex Waterworks, 439 — — at Woolwich Arsenal, 440 ---electric travelling trolley of, 427 Tennessee Iron and Railroad Co., “ Ramsay” casting machine of, 174 Tension of conveyor belts, 82 Thames Iron Works, Magazine of the, 394 Thau, A., coke oven expert, 361 Thio (New Caledonia), Bleichert ropeway at, 295 Thomas’s roller conveyor, 182 Thomas’s anti-breakage bc>x, 557 Thomson’s coal face conveyor, 160, 161 Thomson’s patent reciprocating conveyor, 111 Thorne’s ash hopper, 230 Throw-oft carriage for band conveyors, 76, 77, 78, 80 Tightening band conveyors, 76, 77 — and equalising gears for elevators and conveyors, 191 Tightening elevator webbing, 23 Tillmann, Fr., 256, 594 Tilting bucket conveyors, 122 Timber conveyors, 67, 68, 183 ---Bolinder, 183 Timber Trade Journ al, 183 Times Engineering Supplement, 6 Tips or hoists, unloading railway wagons by means of, 515 • — advantages of belt conveyors over, 595 — Aumund’s “ curved,” 536 — Beckett’s, 588 — Brown hoist electric, 583 — Cowans-Sheldon crane, 587 — curved, 536 — efficiency of (at Rothesay Dock), 578 — incline for discharge, 577 — in factory yards, 535 — Lewis & Hunter’s, 587 — - Long’s, 583 ■ — M'Myler, 582 — Noeux Co.'s, 525 — Pohlig’s, 526, 535, 584 — Rapier coaling crane, 588 — Stevenson’s, 526 — use of glycerine in hydraulic, 519 — Wart’s (G. T.), 588 — Wellmann- Seaver -Morgan Engineering Co.’s, 588 — which unload above the level of the railway lines, 546 Tips which unload below the level of the railway lines, 515 — which unload on the same level as the railway lines, 532 — working cost of (at Rothesay Dock), 580 — working results (at Rothesay Dock), 580 Tips at Avonmouth Docks, 586 — at Barry Docks, 549 — ■ at Bethune, 522 — at Brentwood Gasworks, 534 — at Burntisland Dock, 549 — at Calcutta (Kidderpur Dock), 588 — at Cardiff (movable tip), 554 — at Cardiff and Newcastle (old type), 516 — at Cardiff Corporation Electricity Works (double tip), 532 — at Cardiff Docks (Lewis & Hunter’s tip), 587 — at Cleveland, U.S.A., 583 — at Dortmund, 517 — (double) at Cardiff Corporation Electricity Works, 586 — at Emden, Holland (electrically driven), 574 — at Goole Docks, 561 — at Immingham Docks, 558 — at Liege Gasworks, 540 — at Middlesbrough (hydraulic crane tip), 586 — at Newcastle and Cardiff (old type), 515 — at Newport, 552 — at Pontypridd (Great Western Colliery), 532 ■ — at Rothesay Dock (electrically driven), 575 — at Rotterdam (electrically driven), 566 — at Rotterdam (hydraulic), 563 — at Ruhrort Harbour, 520 — at Sunderland, 529 — at Toledo, U.S.A., 583 Tipping tray conveyor of Babcock & Wilcox, 108, 110, 627 — capacity and speed of, 109 Tipplers or colliery tips, 589 — Fowler’s, 590 — multiple, 594 — bigg’s, 590, 592 — Sam’s, 591 Titcombe, George E., 88, 653 Tonbridge Gasworks, barge elevator at, 453 Toogood equalising gear, 126, 192 Torpedo conveyor, 120 ---experiments with, 120 — — speed and stroke of, 120 Tottington Mills, Wright ropeway at, 306 Transit of grain, cost of, 506 — silos on the Thames, 694 Transporters, 421 — Bleichert’s, 443 — Brown Hoisting Machinery Co.’s, 431, 443 — Hunt (C. W.) Co.’s, 449, 450 — M‘Myler Co.’s, 442 — ropes or chains for, 428 — speed and capacity of, 427, 431, 433, 434, 439, 443, 450 — Temperley, 433, 441 — Temperley portable, 442 — - travelling trolley (electric), 427 — with movable winding gears, 421 — with stationary winding gears, 427 Transporters at Berlin Gasworks, 449 — at Bilbao (Vizcaya Works), 439 — at Copenhagen (Danish Coal Co.), 449 — at Devonport (coal yard of British Admiralty), 421 — at Duluth, 423