Transactions . Fig. 63.—Rigg Anti-breakage Appliances: Doors released fromDeck by Cord. depth in the hold to which the bucket shall descend, and he cansimilarly control the pace at which the counterbalance-weightsshall cause the empty bucket to return to the end of the shoot. (2) Door Released by Contact.—Fig. 64 illustrates the bucketin use under this patent. The bucket is also suspended from theend of the shoot by two ropes and counterbalanced, as in Fig. 63, 238 COAL-SHIPMENT AND THE LAYIXG-OUT OF STAITHE Fig. 64. CES: —Rigg Anti-breakage Applian-doors released by contact. its speci
Transactions . Fig. 63.—Rigg Anti-breakage Appliances: Doors released fromDeck by Cord. depth in the hold to which the bucket shall descend, and he cansimilarly control the pace at which the counterbalance-weightsshall cause the empty bucket to return to the end of the shoot. (2) Door Released by Contact.—Fig. 64 illustrates the bucketin use under this patent. The bucket is also suspended from theend of the shoot by two ropes and counterbalanced, as in Fig. 63, 238 COAL-SHIPMENT AND THE LAYIXG-OUT OF STAITHE Fig. 64. CES: —Rigg Anti-breakage Applian-doors released by contact. its special feature being that it is automatically discharged bythe curved links coming into contact with the floor of the hold or with the first piece of coaltouched, and, releasing thedoors, it discharges anddelivers the coal not onlywithout fall but, by spread-ing it, reduces the cost oftrimming. On the brakebeing released, the counter-balance causes the instantreturn of the empty bucketto the mouth of the the cone being formed,direct tipping operations willproceed. For narrow hatchesthe buckets are provided withsingle inclined floors. (3) Continuous Chain of Buckets.—The necessity for the auto-matic drop arises from the deterioration to which some descrip-tions of cargo, and coalmore especially, are sub-ject in their passage fromthe mouth of a shoot intothe holds of steamers orother vessels. By meansof the ships tackle, thelight steel frame is firstplaced on planks over thehatchway, and the chainof b
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