"Conveyor belt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hundred and fifteen feet, and used for hoisting loads equal to ten tons, this being the largest of the kind made up to that time, and afterward used as a model by many others. The second item was the ingenious and varied forms of conveyor belt, devised and used by Edison at the concentrating works, and subsequently developed into a separate and extensive business by an engineer to whom he gave permission to ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
... a lot of good," Rat said glumly as Alan's breakfast came rolling toward him on the plastic conveyor belt ...
— Starman's Quest • Robert Silverberg
... was raised and the chute cut off. The hopper was kept full all the time and was discharged by bottom gate and spout into wheelbarrows. In a fourth case the apparatus shown by the sketch, Fig. 14, was used. The continuous mixer discharged onto an 18-in. rubber conveyor belt on conical rollers and 18 ft. long. The inner end of the conveyor frame was carried on the ground at the edge of the pit and the outer end was supported by ropes from the top of a gallows frame standing on the pit bottom. The belt discharged over end into a ...
— Concrete Construction - Methods and Costs • Halbert P. Gillette |
