Identifier: factoryindustria35newy (find matches)
Title: Factory and industrial management
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering Factory management Industrial efficiency
Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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LOCOMOTIVE CRANE EQUIPPED VVITPI ELECTRIC LIFTING MAGNET HANDLING LOOSE SCRAP. Installed by the Electric Controller & Supply Co. at the works of Moorhead Bros., Sharpsburg, Pa. J. & J. McSpirit of New Brunswick, N. J., have handled 300 to500 tons of rock, weighing from 6 to 7 tons, in a day of 10 hours,using a dredge with a i^ cubic-yard orange-peel bucket; and Chas.Warren Company of Wilmington, Delaware, have handled 150 cubic 200 THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE.
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PIG MAGNET LIFTING MACHINE-CAST PIGS FROM DEEP PILE.In the yards of the Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Co. Installed by the Electric Controller & Supply Co. yards per hour of washed and screened sand with a derrick dredgehaving an A frame 40 feet high, which they built for themselves,with a 50-foot boom on a scow 32 by 87 feet, using a Lambert hoistingengine with 12^ by 16-inch double-cylinder, double-drum dredge en-gine, and a 2)^ cubic-yard Hayward orange-peel bucket, working in25 feet of water. The ORourke Construction Company, with a 3^cubic-yard orange-peel bucket on a derrick boat has taken care of2,000 to 2,500 cubic yards of city refuse a day. A valuable aid in hoisting operations is the electric magnet, theproperties of which have been known since 1820, although it is onlyrecently that it has been put to commercial uses.

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