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Conveyor  n.  (Mach.) A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.





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"Conveyor" Quotes from Famous Books



... comprises the creation and fall of man. Here, again, we will consult the stage directions, as giving the best idea of the incidents and scenes. We find that Adam and Eve are to be "apparelled in white leather in a place appointed by the conveyor" (probably the person we term stage-manager now); "and are not to be seen until they be called; and then each rises." After this, we read:—"Let Paradise be finely made, with fair trees in it, and apples upon a tree, and other fruit on the others. ...
— Rambles Beyond Railways; - or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot • Wilkie Collins
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... place is by hand a long operation, requiring both skill and patience. Now it is all done by a machine which will make twelve hundred radiator cores in eight hours; then they are soldered in place by being carried through a furnace by a conveyor. No tinsmith work and ...
— My Life and Work • Henry Ford
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... showed how the oil is made. From the platform where the seed is unloaded it is thrown into an elevator and carried by a conveyor—an endless screw in a trough—to the warehouse. Then it is distributed by the conveyor uniformly over the length of the building—about 200 feet. The warehouse is nearly half filled now, and thousands and thousands of bushels are lying in store. Another elevator carries ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 • Various
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Words linked to "Conveyor" :   conveyor belt, line, carousel, factory, assembly line, convey, conveyer belt, conveyer, transporter, mill, carrousel, manufacturing plant, luggage carousel, courier, manufactory


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