Engineering and Contracting . for this job was a .Smith 4.\o. 1(»4 Mascot. This little mixer per-formed all the work required of it fully upto the contractors expectations. The total yardage of the shell for this stand-pipe is very small, approximately IVi cu. foot of height, and, as Mr. Whipple isparticularly insistent that concrete be not al-lowed to remain over five minutes in a revolv-ing mixer, after the water is added, a verysmall capacity per batch was indicated, forthe reason tliat possible accidental or unex- Vpril 1914. Engineering and Contracting 461 ectcd difficulties in ha
Engineering and Contracting . for this job was a .Smith 4.\o. 1(»4 Mascot. This little mixer per-formed all the work required of it fully upto the contractors expectations. The total yardage of the shell for this stand-pipe is very small, approximately IVi cu. foot of height, and, as Mr. Whipple isparticularly insistent that concrete be not al-lowed to remain over five minutes in a revolv-ing mixer, after the water is added, a verysmall capacity per batch was indicated, forthe reason tliat possible accidental or unex- Vpril 1914. Engineering and Contracting 461 ectcd difficulties in handling steel, etc., mightlakf it impossible to receive a large batch im-nediately, while a small batch could almostIways be accommodated in the wall. Thisibviates ih- .^^t. ^.j h<iMi! the bntch .troke all necessity for a scaffolding or stagingfrom the ground up. Figure 4 shows thefloor laid over the radial truss. Tiie floorboards were put down in sucli manner as toeffect the lenst ciutinj, t tin- niiiber, as this. the movable forms for the use of the work-men who rubbed down the exterior surfacewith carborundum rubbing bricks, as calledfor by the specifications. As the height increasedan outside railing was added to this hangingexterior scafTold. Figure 5 is a view of thedome forms. The Fulton standpioc was designed bv theConcrete Steel Engineering Co of Xew YorkCity. Messrs. Chas. F. Bornefeld and E. were resident engineers. One of themwas present days and the other nights whilethe concrete shell was being poured. The Co. uf Milwaukee was the contractor,being represented on the construction work bvMr Allen D. Whipple. Fig. 3. View, from Concreting Tower, of Moand for Supporting Working Platform and in the revolving mixer, or worse yet, depos-iting it in the bucket or hopper during an en-forced wait. In other words, the contractorsdesire was to produce, as nearlv as possiblewith a b;itch mixer, a ct)ntinuous flow of fresh-ly mixed concrete, compa
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