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Cotton mill, commercial features : a text-book for the use of textile schools and investors (1899)

Tompkins, Daniel Augustus, 1851-1914 · Charlotte, N.C. : D.A. Tompkins · leaf 274

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purposes. Frequently a twoinch hole will be bored in a floor for hanging hoistingtackle, when machinery is being installed. All such holesshould be plugged up tight and the plug wedged up tighton the under side. Belt holes through the floor should belined with an iron guard. It should extend below… … Fig. 59.—Belt Guard. Warehouse. The standard warehouse for cotton, or for goods, or forwaste, is a simple, though wonderfully safe and effectivebuilding. It consists of a series of brick walls, parallel toone another and about 25 feet apart. The roof is con-structed by putting heavy beams across…

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