. The Street railway journal . CABLE CONDUIT, BIRMINGHAM D. C. SETS AT BIRMINGHAM are supported by gun metal bushed bearings of an extraheavy pattern. About 50 ft. from the delivery end of band conveyor thelatter is inclined upwards at an angle of about 20 deg. inorder that sufficient height may be obtained for the weighingmachine. This machine is of the Klein make and is entirelyautomatic in its action, recording the amount of coal broughtin by the barges. The weighing machine discharges into acollecting box on the ground level, from which coal is ledby means of chutes to the cavity bucket co
. The Street railway journal . CABLE CONDUIT, BIRMINGHAM D. C. SETS AT BIRMINGHAM are supported by gun metal bushed bearings of an extraheavy pattern. About 50 ft. from the delivery end of band conveyor thelatter is inclined upwards at an angle of about 20 deg. inorder that sufficient height may be obtained for the weighingmachine. This machine is of the Klein make and is entirelyautomatic in its action, recording the amount of coal broughtin by the barges. The weighing machine discharges into acollecting box on the ground level, from which coal is ledby means of chutes to the cavity bucket conveyors. Whencoal is carted into the station the carts are unloaded directlyinto this collecting box, and do not pass over the band con-veyor already described. The gravity bucket conveyors are two in number, each 690ft. long, but provision has been made for fixing a third con-veyor (for use in the coal store) at a later date. They arefed by means of the shoots from the collecting box throughpatent automatic fillers, and have
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