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At the lumber yard of Church E. Gates Company, 152 Street and East River, NY, there is a system of roller and belt conveyors which take planks to all parts of the place. Here, the lumber comes from ships via a line of rollers. It is shoved off the...
Grain is unloaded from cars at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Locust Point Grain Elevator by machine which lifts one end of the car and then the other. The cars are tilted so that the grains run on to the conveyor belts to the various chambers of...
A simplified V belt drive design software program needed tos olve coplex drive belt problems on location is available from Dayco Rubber Product Company. Users quickly determine correct dirve for the application, extra drive capacity, optimum drive...
Finished rolls of Mylar polyester film are carried by automatic conveyor belts to be weighted and packaged for shipment at the DuPont Company's Florence, South Carolina plant.
Practically all types of sanding equipment can be used satisfactorily on Lucite methyl methacrylate resin. Drum sanders are most suitable for curved edges. Disc sanders work well when removing material from straight edges and outside curves. Belt...
Rayon tow is here being converted into top on a machine invented by N.S. Campbell, of Greenwich, Connecticut. The operator has inserted several ends of DuPont Fiber-D rayon tow into the far end of the machine. They then pass between a pair of...
The versatility of rayon is better understood after a glance at this conveyor belt carrying coal deep in a West Virginia mine. Cordura high tenacity rayon, developed by DuPont, has found its way into auto, track tires, conveyor belts in coal mines,...
Written on back of image: "Photographed June 15, 1951. Built April-June 1951. Showing parts of the mechanical drive built for the crimper and feed aprons. Notice the two narrow feed belts. Notice horizontal [illegible], trap doors. Wet processing...
Written on back of image: "Photographed June 15-1951. Built 1949-50. First form of stock feed. Two belts carried stock to crimper rolls. Hard to clean. No self-adjusting mip. too high. Used for samples only. New assignment #318. William D. Hay"
Caption: "Mine cars are automatically loaded by motor driven conveyor belts in mines of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. This scene is more than a thousand feet below the earth's surface at Burnside Colliery, near Samokin, Pa."
Caption: "Electric railway trains and electrically driven conveyor belts are features of the world's largest anthracite breaker at Locust Summit. The mound in the background is an accumulation of non-combustible material from which Reading...
Written caption: "The main conveyors. These belts are four feet wide and carry raw coal up an inclined plane to the top of the breaker at rate of 1600 tons an hour."
