There is also a connexion by a band conveyor running through a covered gantry into the mill, which stands immediately in the rear.
The general arrangement and capabilities of this crane are somewhat similar to those of the gantry shown in Fig.
In the sketch given above, the entire gantry is shown as made of timber, but iron or steel can be equally well adopted, and continuous masonry or brickwork walls may be built to serve as verticals.
Where the fixed portion of the gantry is of considerable length, two or more travelling platforms can be used.
The working length of the gantry is only limited by the number of the verticals, and this, being the fixed portion of the work, may be extended out to any distance required.
Diagonal bracing in the big erection gantry would have saved the bridge, for every feature of the wreck shows that the lateral collapse of that gantry caused the failure.
He flipped the gantry control motors to override and shoved the operating lever forward.
If the gantry motors shut down, he figured there probably was a reason.
Then you d better roll the gantry the hell back, away from the vehicle," Peretz' voice barked.
Outside the glass partition the huge gantry again began to inch along its steel tracks, moving away from the vehicle.
By collapsing, the gantry was now out of the way, below the sight lines between the Cyclops system on the mountain and the vehicle.
Go up there by thegantry and generate a little excitement.
An electronic eye opened the sealed doors leading into the gantry area.
At that moment, he felt a tremor in the rails and looked up to see the lights on the gantry flicker as its motors revved to life.
Although his instinct still was just to blow the whole gantry and have done with it, he agreed with Cally that that was a no-no.
Until thirty minutes earlier, the gantry elevator had been stationed at the midpoint of the vehicle, where technicians were loading the "propellant" and making the final adjustments to the quartz mirrors and nozzles.
He cursed himself again for screwing up the golden opportunity to deactivate the gantry and bring the proceedings to a halt.
From the lower level, technicians could insert the payload module, which then would be hoisted to the top of the gantry and inserted into the vehicle's nose cone.
Not only is the gantry gone, but I'm afraid they've taken Mike prisoner.
Vance had walked into Launch Control, directly through the entrance next to where the fallen gantry had been.
The clean-room procedure, which they were following, involved encasing a satellite payload in a sterile plastic wrap to protect it from contamination when it was being transferred to the gantry area.
Gantry was dodging him, was apparently keeping an accurate record of his movements; for whenever the hurryings permitted a flying return to the capital the traffic manager was always out of town.
The despatcher had thought that Mr. Gantry might want to know.
In his heart of hearts Richard Gantry knew that Blount was right; knew that the forlorn-hope fight into which his friend and college classmate had plunged was a struggle to call out all that was best and finest in friendly loyalty.
Gantry took the dummy packet from his pocket and held one of the blank sheets up to the light of the window.
Gantry dropped into the depths of a lounging-chair and lighted a cigarette.
Gantry was shaking his head slowly, and again the curious smile flitted across his keen, fine-featured face, lingering for an instant at the corners of the eyes.
The small person whom Gantry and a few others were still calling the court of last resort was sitting up, and the tiny embroidery-frame on the table had evidently just been laid aside.
For a little time there was a dead silence, broken only by the faint rustling of the papers as Gantry withdrew and unfolded them.
Gantry says they are, but I say no," he contended.
Gantry had been under orders from the little lady for the better part of the afternoon, but the business of the day had given him no chance to report earlier.
Mr. Gantry has gone to fetch me an ice, and he will be back in a very few minutes," she suggested mildly.
One verse is given here: "Neath a gantry high and mighty she had birth.
They arose in the long climb of the gantry elevator and split into two groups, for the two rockets, according to their GO numbers.
The first sunshine glinted on the two rockets and their single, attendant gantry tower, waiting on the launching pad.
Mrs. Gantry disposed herself upon the comfortable seat that she had selected, and raised her gold lorgnette.
Of all the bad taste--" Mrs. Gantry stopped short, to raise her lorgnette and stare at the flaccid form of Blake.
Mrs. Gantryturned to Ashton with a sudden unbending from hauteur.
Mrs. Gantry lingered an instant to address the young Englishman: "Pray do not forget, earl, you are to dine with me.
Blake stared hard at the bookcase behind Mrs. Gantry and answered curtly, oblivious of the older man's hand.
Mrs. Gantry sighed with relief, but Dolores frowned, and Mr. Leslie stared in irritable perplexity.
Mrs. Gantry met her with a kiss a full degree more fervent than was consistent with strict decorum.
When Mrs. Gantry came in on them, they were still standing side by side, but apart, contemplating the great crimson amaryllis blossom.
Mrs. Gantry turned to him and answered in a lowered voice: "It's that fellow, Blake.
As he stepped off the elevator, the ground crew prepared to roll the gantry crane away from the ship.
He donned the parka and gloves his relief had worn, and stepped through the hatch onto the gantry crane elevator.
Motors of equal power move the whole gantryalong its rails over the great piles of steel plates and girders from which it selects victims to feed the maw of the shops.
Before entering, our attention is arrested by a huge gantry crane, borne by two columns which travel on rails.
As the concrete was brought into the tunnel it was hoisted and dumped on the end of the gantry next the arch, and shoveled from there to the platform on the ribs and from there into place.
A gang of four rough carpenters and a foreman was employed on the day shift; they moved and set the bench-wall forms or sand-wall forms, as the case might be, and moved the travelinggantry into position.
The forward end of the gantry (that is, the end farthest from the arch being built), as shown in Fig.
The traveling gantry for placing the concrete in the sand-walls, as first designed, with the belt conveyor, could of course only deliver the concrete at one end.
The traveling gantryused in handling the concrete for the arch is shown in Fig.
Both of these difficulties might possibly have been overcome by modifications in the design of the gantry and conveyor, had this method of handling the concrete seemed otherwise desirable.
In this system two furnaces are connected at the top by a gantry or bridge, against which, between the furnaces, two inclined elevators are set, so that each can serve either furnace.
The gantry platform was just clanging to the ground, unloading three technicians and a Four-bar Electronics Engineer.
Half a dozen crews of check-out men were swarming about her, inspecting her engine and fuel supplies, riding up the gantry crane to her entrance lock, and guiding the great cargo nets from the loading crane into her afterhold.
Bond had simply gone down the gantry without closing it, not realizing until they were down that the team responsible for installing the spacemonk was also responsible for buttoning up.
But of even more personal interest to Rick was the presence of a gantry crane at a third firing pad where one of the special rocket-transport trucks was just putting the first stage of Pegasus into place!
Rick looked through the glass ports and saw the gantrycrane being wheeled away.
In a short time they had a clear view of Orion waiting on its pad, project personnel swarming over the gantry crane as they performed a variety of last-day chores.
Bernais, and the gantry would be wheeled back into place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gantry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
