Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (1881)
Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) · New York, [etc.] Board of Managers · leaf 201
ttached to the stringers on top. In Fig. 10 the hoisting engine is carried by the traveller. On the lower level may be seen one of the two boilers and two of the four drums for winding the hoist lines, and above may be seen the transverse beams resting on the longitudinal stringers. The trans-… … Fig. 10.* as before stated, three or two are sometimes used. Instead of three bents it is probably cheaper to use only two, and instead of the middle bent use two inclined posts on each side. The description of these travellers alone would make a very long paper, but let us now pass to the erection…
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