Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 345
n ships in the stream or alongside the piers: the latter is called the floating eleva-tor. The extremity of the shoot C is inserted in the hold of the vessel about to be discharged, its heightbeing regulated by the guide-frame and pulleys, Fig. 1003. The machine is put in motion by means ofthe… … of 76 feet, and discharged by means of the small spout attached to the elevator into the weighing ma-chine ; from thence, by a repetition of the same contrivance, it is taken through the building to a shooton the roof, containing an Archimedean screw, by the use of which and the elevator the grain…
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