. Canadian machinery and metalworking (January-June 1913). FIG. 4. DISTRIBUTING SPOITS. STOREY OVER RIXS. FIG. 11. MAIN SWITCHBOARD. 12 CANADIAN MACHINERY Volume IX grain to the elevator, where two lofterlegs elevate it to the cupola. There, asystem of 40-in. belt conveyors dis-tributes it to the double jointed spouts of 16,000 bushels per hour. The totalshipping capacity of elevator No. with the shipping bins full, willbe 90,000 bushels hourly for ten FIG. 5. BELT CONVEYORS IX SECOND STOREY OVER BINS. leading to the bins. The maximumhourly capacity for receiving from boatsi
. Canadian machinery and metalworking (January-June 1913). FIG. 4. DISTRIBUTING SPOITS. STOREY OVER RIXS. FIG. 11. MAIN SWITCHBOARD. 12 CANADIAN MACHINERY Volume IX grain to the elevator, where two lofterlegs elevate it to the cupola. There, asystem of 40-in. belt conveyors dis-tributes it to the double jointed spouts of 16,000 bushels per hour. The totalshipping capacity of elevator No. with the shipping bins full, willbe 90,000 bushels hourly for ten FIG. 5. BELT CONVEYORS IX SECOND STOREY OVER BINS. leading to the bins. The maximumhourly capacity for receiving from boatsis 40,000 bushels. Distributing. Two reversible longitudinal conveyorsin the cupola receive from the scales anddistribute grain longitudinally. Cleaning. While Montreal is not a cleaningpoint, two large steel cleaning machinesare provided for emergency cleaning andseparating. Shipping to Cars. Four car-loading spouts are providedso that cars may be loaded if desired., This sometimes becomes necessary inorder to get grain to a winter port far-ther east after the port of Montreal hasclosed. Shipping to Ocean Vessels. In connection with elevator No. 1, theshipping conveyors serve 14 vesselberths on King Edward, Alexandra andJacques Cartier piers and the neighbor-ing shore wharves. Five berths arebeing added on the new Victoria side shipping gallery of elevator contains six shipping conveyors. Twowill extend north to serve the Victoriapier, and four will
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