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Identifier: factoryindustria35newy (find matches)
Title: Factory and industrial management
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering Factory management Industrial efficiency
Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e generally arranged to feed the right amount of ma-terial automatically onto the belt, and others to receive the materialat the other end. The continuous belts can be run on the level orup fairly steep inclines, and are very much used in the grain elevators.Sometimes the belts are run on plain spools and at others with spoolshaving a dip in the center, the sides of the belt often being stiffenedup to stand the extra strain. Hundred-pound boulders have beendropped on a 30-inch wide moving belt without stopping it. It is claimed that the concrete materials, sand, and stone formaking 70 cubic yards of concrete have been elevated 26 feet, by abelt conveyor, to the bins feeding the mixers, at the expense of only7 horse power. A belt with a 500-feet horizontal and 25-feet verticalstretch has carried 900 tons in a lo-hour day using between 8 and 9horse power. In Cuba and elsewhere, instead of using a belt to handle the bag-asse (sugar cane after all the sugar has been squeezed out) as it is
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ELECTRIC TRAVELING HOIST^ WISCONSIN STEEL CO., SOUTH CHICAGO. Travels on bar rails fastened to lower flanges of an I-beam runway. Operates specially designed bucket removing scale deposit from the hot rolls. Capacity of hoist 3 tons; hoist speed VO ft., travel 150 ft. per minute. Length over all 21 ft., lift of bucket 26 ft. Installed by Pawling & Harnischfeger. 53 54 THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. fed to the furnace, New York contractors, like August Smith &Co., supply a sort of inchncd steel trough over which a continuouscarrier travels, scraping the bagasse along and dropping it throughvarious gates and openings to feed the different fires as required.

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