Identifier: canadianengineer22toro (find matches)
Title: Canadian engineer
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Publisher: Toronto, Monetary Times Print. Co. (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ease on othertools against maintenance expense and interest on originalinvestment. The economies obtainable are best evidenced by useand continued extension of such systems in many powerplants, foundries, machine shops, paper mills, te.xtile mills,fertilizer works, chemical works, quarries, steel mills, gasworks, powder mills, railroad yards, smelters, mines, coal-ing stations, brick works, wood shops, warehouses, etc. A shop railway system without provision for power onthe cars can be profitably applied almost wherever the move-ment of material, either finished or raw, or both, is done byhand truck or wheelbarrows, and averages three or moretons per day. One man, for instance, with a shop car,should easily be able to move on level track, a one-ton loadthat could not be handled in the same time with wheel-barrows by five men. With cars operated electrically fromstorage batteries, trolley or third rail, the loads that can becarried are limited only by the strength of the cars andtrack.
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System Using Flat Top Cars in IVIachine Shop and Shipping Department. Utica Drop Forge and Tool Co., Utica, N.Y. The loads on cars can generally be apportioned accord-ing to requirements up to a maximum car load of about 10tons, a load distribution of one to three tons per car, underaverage conditions being very effective. A railway system involves no expense when not in use,and is immediately available for peak loads. The car plat-forms can be adapted in size and height to best suit the carrying conditions as well as for ease of loading and un-loading. Wheredesirable, the material may be kept on thecar during manufacturing processes, the car being used asa platform and thus saving the labor of rehandling. Ac-curate weight of material while on the cars is easily obtain-able by putting platform scales at any convenient point inthe track system. That a system of cars and tracks can be a profitableinvestment, is easily computed for any given conditions.As a rule, the labor saving alone j

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