. Supplement to Spons dictionary of engineering, civil, mechanical, military, and naval. 748 HYDRAULICS. from the shoot, and then lowered to the bottom of the hold, and emptied by pulling up the boltthat secures the flap-door; the process being repeated until a conical heap of coal is formed, highenough to reach nearly to the hatchway. The shoot is then allowed to discharge freely, anddelivers close down upon the heap, so as to prevent any breakage of the coal by a vertical point of the shoot is contracted, to check the fall of the coal down the incline, so that the. 1459,

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