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 1377
The lower end was 1.5 ft. above the ground and theupper end 2 ft. above the car floor and extending about a ft. withinthe car. One man (1) (Fig. 15) stood at the foot of the conveyor andreceived bricks, four at a time, passed to him by two others (2)and (3) alternately, from the piles. (1) placed… … Conveyor Fig. 15. Diagram showing positions of laborers loading bricks intoa car with a belt conveyor. From the flat Koppel cars which were run in as mentioned above,the bricks were loaded onto wheelbarrows, wheeled to the footof the conveyor and stacked on four at a time. The work was very fa.st…
