Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 341
n-laden 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… … 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 wliich and the elevator the grain…
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