In this way, the corves can be raised with great rapidity; but there is a considerable loss of time in banking the corve at the pit mouth, where shutters or sliding boards must be used.
Betwixt these guides, friction-roller sliders are placed, attached to the gin-ropes, to which sliders the corves are suspended.
The vertical partition of the shaft for separating the passage for the corves or tubs from the ladders is omitted in the figure, for the sake of clearness.
The corves after being landed or banked at the pit mouth, are drawn to the bin or coal-hill, either upon slips by horses, or by trammers on a tram-road.
The power of the engine for drawing the coals up the shaft, is made proportional to the depth of the pit and the quantity to be raised, the corves ascending at an average velocity of about 12 feet per second.
In the dip-mine a double tram-road is laid; so that while a number of loaded corves are ascending, an equal number of empty ones are going down.
Thus the engine may move with great rapidity, while it imparts an equable slow motion to the corves ascending in the shaft.
From the pits the coal was raised in corves, or large baskets, and as early as 1291 we have a case of a man being killed at Denby in a 'colpyt' by one of these loaded corves falling upon his head.
With this apparatus the boys made a show of sending the corves down the pit and drawing them up again, much to the marvel of the pitmen.
Their corves were made out of hollowed corks; their ropes were supplied by twine; and a few bits of wood gleaned from the refuse of the carpenters' shop completed their materials.
The gin consists of a large drum placed horizontally, round which ropes attached to buckets and corves are wound, which are thus drawn up or sent down the shafts by a horse traveling in a circular track or "gin race.
On the full corves being replaced by empty ones, it was then the duty of the brakesman to reverse the engine, and send the corves down the pit to be filled again.
The approach of the corves toward the pit mouth was signaled by a bell, brought into action by a piece of mechanism worked from the shaft of the engine.
The corves were placed together in a cage, between which and the pit-ropes there was usually from fifteen to twenty feet of chain.
In mines with thick seams it was usual to make good roads, but in less profitable mines the roads were just large enough to enable small children to get the corvesalong them.
When the train of rolleys reaches the shaft, the full corves are hoisted up, and empty ones let down, which are placed on the rolleys, and carried back for the hewers to fill.
Day after day Dick sat by the side of his trap, all in the dark and by himself, opening and shutting it, as the corves and rolleys came by, and Samuel worked away as usual with his pick and spade.
Other men were engaged at the foot of the shaft, hooking on the corves full of coal to be drawn up by the machinery above.
Then he should have to fill corves with coal, and push them along the tramways for some years more till he got to be a hewer like his father.
The approach of the corves towards the pit mouth was signalled by a bell, brought into action by a piece of mechanism worked from the shaft of the engine.
The gin consists of a large drum placed horizontally, round which ropes attached to buckets and corves are wound, which are thus drawn up or sent down the shafts by a horse travelling in a circular track or “gin race.
The corves were made out of hollowed corks; the ropes were supplied by twine; and a few bits of wood gleaned from the refuse of the carpenter’s shop completed their materials.
Mining operations were being carried on with the greatest activity; coal was being piled incessantly into the trucks, which went in hundreds to empty themselves into the corves at the bottom of the shaft.
Before three months have passed, the first corves full of coal will have been taken from the new vein.
I thought it was onnatural dark and still the first ten minutes," Jack admitted honestly; "but arter the first set o' corves came along I never thawt no more about the dark.
I doan't think thou'lt feel lonely here, for along that side road they bring down other corvesand the horse comes and takes 'em on.
Now when thou hearst a team of corves coming along, pull yon end and open the door.
So that you larn to wake up when the corves come along, that ull do foine.
Already the corves which took them down to their work in the early morning must be on their way up to the surface, and it is time to have the savoury messes ready for dishing up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
