The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material

INDEX _______________________ Transporters at West Ham Electric Station, 440 — at West Middlesex Waterworks, 439 — at West Superior, U.S.A. (Jones & Adams), 443 — at Woolwich Arsenal, 440 — at Zürich Gasworks, 450 . . Travelling trolley (electric) of Brown Hoisting Machinery Co., 427 — — — of Temperley Transporter Co., 427 Trewent & Proctor, Ltd., ash ejector of, 237 Trucks, self-unloading, 127 Truck weighbridge (automatic), Avery’s, 723 Troughing and intermediate bearings of worm con- veyors, 49. 50, 51 — of conveyor belts, 83 Tub-hauls or creepers, 245 Tubular worm conveyors, 53 — — — experiments with, 55 — — — speed and capacity of, 54, 55, 60. Tuckett, F. S., on cost of pneumatic handling, ‘220 Tupper, Lieut. R. G. O., plan for coaling at sea, 324 Twinberrow, J. D., 583, 587, 609, 610 Tyne Docks, coal loaders at, 606 . — — coal loading by gravity at, 609 U-LINK conveyor, 62 ----— capacity of, 63 Uehling casting machine, 171, 172, 176 Ultimate working strength of conveyor belts, 83 Undercut-gate feeder, 202 Underground conveyors. See Coal Pace Conveyois Unloader for bananas, 455 Unloading and loading devices, miscellaneous, bll __by means of specially constructed self-emptying hopper wagons, 494 — railway wagons by means of tips oi hoists, t>15 __vessels by means of barge or ship elevators and marine legs, 451 Unruh & Liebig, barge elevator of, 458 U .S.A. Navy Yard, Norfolk, coal bunkers at, boU y^ACUUM required for pneumatic elevators, 213, Vereinigte Schmirgel und Maschinen-Fabriken, push- trough conveyor of, 73 Vibrating or reciprocating trough conveyors, 1 11 Vivero Iron Ore Co., ropeways of the, 293 WAINWRIGHT, S., improvements in coaling railway engines on the S.E. & C. Rly. by, 618 Wall’s system of coal loading, 607 Walsh, John E., plan for coaling at sea, 32b Walton & Rayner coal face conveyor, 160, Ibi Wangeman’s coke conveyor, 374 Warehousing of grain, 666 Washed coal, handling of, 116 Wart, G. T., tip of, 588 “ Way leaves ” for ropeways, 26.) Wear and tear of conveying and elevating machinery, 142 Weardale Steel, Coal, and Coke Co., coke loader at, 386 . . Weighing of material, automatic, /U») 743 Weighing machines, Avery’s colliery tub weighing machine, 724 __ — Avery’s conveyor weigher and totaliser, 722 ----Avery’s grain scale, 710 __ — Avery’s hopper weigher and totaliser, 722 _____Avery’s machine for provender mills, 713 _____Avery’s overhead weigher and totaliser, 7*25 __ — Avery’s scale for coal, coke, minerals, and similar materials, 715 __ — Avery’s truck weighbridge and totaliser, 723 __ — Avery’s weighing machines for sacking-off purposes, 713 _____“Blake-Denison” continuous weigher, 717 ----“ Chronos” grain scale, 706 — — continuous, 705, 717 — — hopper, 705, 706 — — intermittent, 706, 722 ----Merrick weightometer, 720 — — “Nomis” grain scale, 708 _____Simon’s sack filling, weighing, and recording machine, 709 ----“ Simplex ” grain scale, 716 Weights of various materials, table of, /26 Weiss feeding device, 118, 646 Wellman, S. T., pioneer of lifting magnets, 411 Wellman-Seaver coke loader, 380 Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Manufacturing Co., 38Ü, 395, 588, 664 —-------'grab, 395 _____— stacking machines for ore piles, 664 --------tips, 588 Werf Conrad, self-trimming barges of, 480 Werner coupling for ropeways. 273 West Ham Electric Station, Temperley transporter at, 440 West Middlesex Waterworks, I emperley transporter at 439 Western dump cars of the Western Wheeled Scraper Co., 510 West’s Gas Improvement Co., 63 — hot coke conveyor, 149 Westmacott, Percy, 55, 6/0 Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad, ore-handling plant of the, 664 Whitaker, J., 668 White Star Line, ash expellers used by, 2.5/ Whitehaven, coal loader at, 606 Wiesebrock, Frederick W., 207 Wild’s hot coke conveyor, 150 Willich, self-unloaders built by, 499 Witton-Kramer lifting magnet, 414 Woodward, Lieut. J. J., plan for coaling at sea, 329 — Iron Co., cokery of the, 376 Woolwich Arsenal, Temperley transporter at, 440 Working expenses. See Cost Worm or Archimedean screw conveyors, 42, 4bo ; — conveyors, advantages of, 49 i-------capacity of, 46, 47 I — — choking of, 53 __— continuous or closed spiral, 44 I-------couplings for, 52 — — coupling gudgeons for, 52, 53 ; — — crescent-bladed, 43 ----disadvantages of, 49 --------Drummond end flights for, 53 ----earliest construction, 42 _____experiments with paddle or spiral, 47, 48 .— — for cement, 51 ----for mixing materials, 49 I __ — general remarks concerning, 53