Chicago : Engineering and Contracting Pub. Co. · leaf 263
the absence of any reliable dataor records of experience in depositing largequantities of concrete in water of such depthas was found on this work, the contractorsconducted numerous experiments with thetremies in the open trench before the actualwork was started. Some very valuable in-formation was… … Fig. 6—Sketch Showing Method of Placing Concrete by Tremies. hopper with the pipe being such that the pipewas free to swing laterally. The hopper car-ried a cage in which a man was stationed todirect the handling of the pipe when concretewas being deposited. The pipes were 12 ins.in diameter, of…
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