Handbook of mechanical and electrical cost data, giving shipping weights, capacities, outputs, and net prices of machines and apparatus, and detailed costs of installation, maintenance, depreciation and operation, together with many principles and data relating to engineering economics (1918)
Gillette, Halbert Powers, 1869-, Dana, Richard Turner, 1876-1928, joint author · New York, McGraw-Hill · leaf 1364
ully loaded belts, i. e. belts carrying their maximum load asgiven on Fig. 1, they should also be used for belts handling 90%of their capacity, as the slight unavoidable variation in load leadsto slightly increased power consumption. %0 800 700 I »l 600 ;;j$ 500 CO ^ i ■,^m 3^ ^^200 ^. WHERe, W-… … Fig. 1. Capacities of standard belt conveyors, economically loadedand operated. The economy of belt conveyors in the consideration of powerconsumption is quite evident from a glance at Figs. 1 and 2, Fromthe former it is seen that a 30-in. belt conveyor can handle about270 tons of fine coal per hr.…
