. Canadian machinery and metalworking (January-June 1919). rious manufacturingplants and yards. As shown in photograph, Fig. 1, thereis in operation at the mammoth buildingoccupied by Morris, Kansas City, an opengravity 78-foot spiral chute runningfrom seventh floor to the basement. Thischute will carry merchandise of everydescription, and packages varying inweight from eight ounces up to and in-cluding several hundred pounds. Thespiral passes down through the loadingdock to the cars. It has a capacity of l.)0,000 lbs. of packed meats per day of8 hours. The details of construction of an 8
. Canadian machinery and metalworking (January-June 1919). rious manufacturingplants and yards. As shown in photograph, Fig. 1, thereis in operation at the mammoth buildingoccupied by Morris, Kansas City, an opengravity 78-foot spiral chute runningfrom seventh floor to the basement. Thischute will carry merchandise of everydescription, and packages varying inweight from eight ounces up to and in-cluding several hundred pounds. Thespiral passes down through the loadingdock to the cars. It has a capacity of l.)0,000 lbs. of packed meats per day of8 hours. The details of construction of an 8 of gravity roll carrier developedat Merriam Park, St. Paul, Minn., maybe noted in drawing, Fig. 2, while thephotograph, Fig. 8, shows a carrierhandling cement in sacks. The photo-graph, Fig. 4, indicates the method ofhandling shingles by the Palmer Lum-ber Co. The illustrations, Figs. 5 and 6, indi-cate the use of a double roller lumbercarrier handling cooperage stock at theworks of St. Louis Cooperage Co., theform photograph showing a gravity car. FIG. 1 7 s FT. SPIRAL WHICH PASSES THROUGH LOADING DOCK ROOF TO CARS. CAPACITY LBS. OK PACKED MEATS PEKr- \~OF EIGHT HOURS. FIG. 3. GRAVITY CARRIER HANDLING BAGS OF CEMENT. FIG. 4 HANDLING SHINGLES BY GRAVITYdA,, FIG- 5 -LUMBER CARRIER 8 IN. CENTRE OUTSIDE RAIL, EXTENDING FROM DOOR TO PILE. FIG. 6.—DOUBLE ROLLER CARRIER HANDLING COOPERAGE STOCK AT THE PLANT OF THE ST. LOUIS COOPERAGE ST. LOUIS. MISS. ELEVATOR ELEVATING BOXES TO OVERHEAD RUN. FIG. g. TOP OF SPECIAL ELEVATOR. >()4 CANADIAN MACHINERY Volume XXI. rier of 8 in. centre outside rail extendingfrom the car door to the storage pile. The handling of brick, cement blocksand tiling, by hand or wheelbarrows, isnot only a slow and expensive method,but involves hard and tiring labor. By even in absolutely irrespirable air to theexclusion of the more cumbersome minerescue breathing apparatus. This er-roneous belief will no doubt be furtherconfi
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