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Identifier: handbookofconstr00dana (find matches)
Title: Handbook of construction plant, its cost and efficiency
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Dana, Richard Turner, 1876-1928
Subjects: Contractors' operations Building
Publisher: Chicago, The M. C. Clark Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e used over asbestosair cell boiler blocks, when it makes an excellent covering.When mixed with water to a consistency of mortar and appliedwith a trowel, it forms a light porous coating which is the mostefficient non-conductor. The cost of this cement is $33.00 per ton. HANDBOOK OF CONSTRUCTION PLANT ASPHALT PLANTS ASPHALT MIXING PLANTS A semi-portable asphalt mixing- plant (Fig. 15) designed tomeet the requirements of paving contractors and municipalstreet repair work consists of a double drum dryer with coldmaterial elevator. The dried materials are delivered into ahopper and thereby conveyed to the hot material elevator, fromwhich they are discharged directly into the revolving screenwhich is located above the hot material bin. This bin is sup-ported in a tower and from it the hot materials are deliveredto a measuring box in which the materials may be eithermeasured or weighed. The melting tanks (of one thousand gal-lons capacity each) are arranged in a battery of six and are pro-
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Fig. 15. Iroquois Semi-Portable Asphalt Mixing Plant for Mu-nicipal Repair Plant or General Contractors Use. vided with suitable covers, and from them the asphalt is con-veyed to the bucket by the dipping process. This bucket isarranged with trolley track and each batch of asphalt can beweighed. The mixer is provided with two sets of shafts whichmay be easily interchanged for mixing either binder or topping.The power plant consists of a locomotive type boiler with a 50h. p. engine mounted thereon. The engine and boiler are mounted on skids and there are noheavy foundations necessary, thereby making the plant easy to ASPHALT PLANTS 31 remove. The plant has 1,000 square yards per day capacity;total weight, 63, tons; price, f. o. b. Buffalo, N. Y., $10,500. An asphalt mixer was used in Lincoln Park, Chicago, during1910 to construct an asphalt surfaced driveway. The road was40 ft. wide x 4,631 ft. long, and had 2 inches of asphalt on an 8in. base of crushed stone. The total amount of asph

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