Among typical conveyors on this system is the Hunt conveyor (fig.
Certain types of conveyors may be made to combine efficiently, with their primary work of transport, complex sorting, sifting, drying and weighing operations.
There are several other conveyors of this type, amongst which the "Tipit" should be mentioned.
The inventor of band conveyors for the handling of grain and minerals was G.
Ordinary worm conveyors are practically debarred from use for such substances on account of the short life of the intermediate bearings, which are not necessary with externally supported tubular worms.
As regards the relative efficiency of paddle and spiral conveyors a series of careful tests made by the writer indicated that, run at a slow speed the paddle worm, but at a high speed the spiral worm, has the greater efficiency.
The earlier hot coke conveyorswere of the pushplate type.
Conveyors of this type run at a mean rate of 40 ft.
The chief use for hot coke conveyors has been found in connexion with gas works, but attempts have also been made to provide efficient machinery for the service of coke ovens of great capacity.
Modern worm conveyors usually consist of a spindle formed of a length of wrought iron piping, to which is fitted either a broken or continuous worm.
At the very outset the wheat is taken by conveyors to the top floor, whence its products descend, stage by stage, impelled by gravity alone, until the finished and barreled flour rolls into shipping rooms beside the railroad tracks.
The grain elevator, invented many years ago, is the parent of manifold conveyors of coal, lime, ore or aught else.
The skins to be dried are placed on poles which in turn are set on the horizontal conveyorsas in Fig.
When the skins on the conveyorshave passed the full length of the dryer, they are entirely dry, and are then removed from the poles.
The three men pelted across the graded conveyors as hard as they could run.
Sooner or later, he reasoned, he would strike one of the radiating conveyors that led into the metropolis, or a human being that would set him on the right track.
The local conveyors seemed to be moving backward at graded speeds.
All conveyors to be stopped except for troop movements.
The conveyors carried back and forth armed companies of guards.
You heard the orders," the hugest one barked: "no congregating of Earth slaves on the conveyors or elsewhere.
Steadily they headed for the branch localconveyors as being less likely to be under surveillance.
The conveyorswere disgorging crowds of Earthmen, grim, determined-looking individuals.
Moreover, since all the coal conveyors and electric haulage systems were a tangle of wreckage, the loaded cars had to be pushed by hand all the way along the underground galleries, to the bottom of the shaft.
From the receiving tower the grain is conveyed into the warehouse where it is at once elevated to the top of a central tower, and is thence distributed to any of the bins by band conveyors in the usual way.
Band conveyors serve equally well for charging or discharging the bins.
The power required to work the large elevator as well as the various band conveyors is supplied by two sets of horizontal Corliss compound engines of 500 H.
Five tunnels in the concrete bedding that supports the bins carry the belt conveyors which bring back the grain to the working house for cleaning or shipment.
These craft are hopper-bottomed and fitted with band conveyors of the ordinary type, running between the double keelson of the lighter and delivering into an elevator erected at the stern of the lighter.
The combined capacity of the elevators and conveyors is 100 tons of grain per hour.
No conveyors serve the silo bins, as the elevators which rise above the tops of the silos can feed any one of them by gravity.
The first consists of a telescopic elevator which raises the grain and delivers it to one of the two band conveyors at the head of the apparatus.
The usual band conveyors fitted with throw-off carriages are provided, and are supplemented by an elaborate system of pipes which receive grain from the elevators and bands and distribute it at any required point.
A steel framework, covered with tiles, crowns these circular bins and contains the conveyors and spouts which are used to fill the bins.
To the great department store or monstrous building wherein, as we have said, the whole business of a town may be transacted, the assemblage and conjoint use of elevators and conveyors seem to be actually necessary.
In the better establishments, the coffee is carried along by mechanical conveyors through all the operations from the first cleaning machine to the final packaging.
These conveyors have automatic self reversing trippers, which distribute the coal evenly in the bunkers.
In order to eliminate the stresses that would develop in a conveyor of the full length of the building, the conveyors are of half the entire length, with electric driving engines in the center of each continuous line.
For handling different grades of coal, distributing conveyors are arranged underneath the bunkers for delivering the coal from a particular bunker through gates to the downtake hoppers in front of the boilers, as hereafter described.
Wyman picked his way past throbbing conveyors roofed against pilferage, under gurgling fuel and water and waste pipes, around vast metal warehouses and storage tanks.
The snaking conveyors and ramps sliced out sectors of space.
Edison, therefore, designed an original and ingenious system of mechanical belt conveyors that would automatically receive and discharge their loads at appointed places in the works, covering about a mile in transit.
In fact, these conveyors in automatic action seemed to play their part with human intelligence.
But relief was on the way for the automatic feed conveyors were rapidly moving across our section.
First we heard a diminution of sound from one direction, then a hasty scuffling and a happy grunting beneath us and, as the conveyors moved swiftly on, the squealing receded into the distance like the dying roar of a retreating storm.
Six of Edison's patents on conveyors include a variety of devices that have since came into broad general use for similar work, and have been the means of effecting great economies in numerous industries of widely varying kinds.
Hence, it became necessary to invent a system of conveyors that would be capable of transferring this mass of material from one place to another.
Edison's work on conveyors during the period of his ore-concentrating labors was distinctively original, ingenious and far in advance of the times.
And not only must these conveyors be capable of carrying the material, but they must also be devised so that they would automatically receive and discharge their respective loads at appointed places.
This sand was transported automatically by belt conveyors to the rear of the works to be stored and sold.
Edison's ingenuity, engineering ability, and inventive skill were equal to the task, however, and were displayed in a system and variety of conveyors that in practice seemed to act with almost human discrimination.
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