. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 14 BULLETIN 849, U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. When the trucks were unloaded inside of a building that has no platform, considerably more time and labor were required to handle 100 cans of milk. The system of using conveyers to send the milk from the platform to the receiving room required more men and time than when the milk was dumped direct without the use of con- veyers. This is due to the fact that at the plants where no conveyers were used the dumping tank was quite close to the receiving platform and less han
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 14 BULLETIN 849, U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. When the trucks were unloaded inside of a building that has no platform, considerably more time and labor were required to handle 100 cans of milk. The system of using conveyers to send the milk from the platform to the receiving room required more men and time than when the milk was dumped direct without the use of con- veyers. This is due to the fact that at the plants where no conveyers were used the dumping tank was quite close to the receiving platform and less handling was required. The dump tanks at these plants were also sunk in the floor, so that very little lifting of the cans was required. In the plants where the conveyers were used the receiving room was much better protected from contamination, being further from the receiving platform and better inclosed. If conveyers had not. Fig. 3.—System of conveying cans and milk from the trucks to the dump tank, located at a considerable distance from the entrance to the receiving room. been used at these plants more men would have been required. The necessity for a conveyer depends, of course, on the location of the dump tank with reference to the receiving platform. MILK PUMPS COMPARED WITH ELEVATORS. Very few plants elevated the milk to the top floor in the cans, the majority using pumps. Studies were made at 28 typical plants to determine the relative economy of the systems of (A) dumping the milk in tanks on the ground floor and then pumping from this tank to the receiving tank above, (B) raising the milk in cans to the top floor by means of power conveyers, and (C) raising the cans of milk by means of freight elevators. If conveyers are used trouble is some- times experienced by a can being improperby placed on the apparatus. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of thes
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