The Bleichert System of Aerial Tramways: Reversible Aerial Tramways. Aerial Tramways of Special Design |
Other editions - View all
The Bleichert System of Aerial Tramways: Reversible Aerial Tramways. Aerial ... William Hewitt No preview available - 2018 |
The Bleichert System of Aerial Tramways: Reversible Aerial Tramways. Aerial ... William Hewitt No preview available - 2018 |
The Bleichert System of Aerial Tramways: Reversible Aerial Tramways. Aerial ... William Hewitt No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
30 tons aerial tram angle stations attached automatic loaders BLEICHERT SYSTEM Bleichert tramway Boy Tramway brakes built carried cents circuit coal coating coils conveyed cost of operation desired detached diameter Discharge Terminal dumping Earlington eleva elevations empty carrier equipped with self-dumping Eureka Slate expense feet long hanger hoist Howardsville illustrated in Fig inclination installed Lang-lay latch Length of line line operated loaded carriers loading and discharge loading or discharge loading station Loading Terminal Locked-Coil Track Cable manufacture material mile patent locked-coil cable points of loading pump receptacles REVERSIBLE AERIAL TRAMWAYS saddles San Toy self-dumping and self-righting Self-Dumping Buckets self-righting buckets sheaves shunt rails Silverton SINGLE-CABLE REVERSIBLE TRAMWAYS Slatington smooth-coil Solvay Process span specially designed steel strands Support on line Surface Cars SYSTEM of aerial Tension Station terminal stations tion tons per hour traction rope TRAMWAYS OF SPECIAL transported Trenton Iron trippers Underhung Grip Utah varying wire rope
Popular passages
Page 11 - ... is but little more than the tractive force required to move the loads. Upon slopes, however, the...
Page 18 - With the ordinary carrier equipped with an underhung grip attached to the hanger between the carriage and the bucket, it is obvious that this is impossible, not necessarily because the grip must come in contact with the flanges of the sheaves, but because on the angle side of the bend the hangers would come between the rope and the sheaves, which would be objectionable, to say the least, if not altogether in feasible.
Page 5 - The carriers move in a continuous circuit, at definite intervals, determined by the individual loads and the amount of material to be transported in a given time, and...
Page 5 - The Bleichert System of Aerial Tramways THE BLEICHERT SYSTEM of aerial tramways is one whereby the material is carried in receptacles suspended from carriages on stationary track cables of special construction, supported at varying elevations above the ground.
Page 6 - The costly grading of circuitous routes, and the building of expensive bridges or viaducts, requisite in the construction of mountain railways, are entirely avoided.
Page 11 - CABLES.—The track cables are graduated to the loads and pressure they have to sustain, and, being stationary, possess the great advantage of relieving the...
Page 30 - ... from the traction rope, so that no interruption occurs in the continuity of the track, and the so-called station therefore is in reality only a special type of support.
Page 18 - ... reasonable to look for an economy of labor in the passage of the carriers without detaching from the traction rope.
Page 57 - The carriers are conveyed to the points of loading or discharge, as the case may be...
Page 11 - ... of the weight of the loads, so that on comparatively level lines the tension upon the traction rope is but little more than the tractive force required to move the loads.