Conveyor
[kən'veɪə] or [kən'veɚ]
Definition
(n.) 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.
Edited by Bryan
Examples
- In following the final assembly line from the point where the chain conveyor engages the frame and axles, the visitor is impressed with the dispatch with which every movement is executed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Pneumatic Transmission: Dodge's Air Blast Conveyor. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- While the mold is being poured it is in constant motion, and continues so from the pouring station to the end of the conveyor, where the casting is shaken out of the sand. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In casting cylinders, on account of their size and the care needed in setting the cores, a different style conveyor is used. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is impossible to over-bake or under-bake a core, as the rate of travel of the conveyor is fixed at a speed which leaves the core in the oven the correct length of time. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In this division, all the assembled units meet the assembly conveyor at the point where they are needed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The molder, instead of putting the mold on a pendulum conveyor, places it upon a track, where it is moved by means of a chain. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- From this point the chassis moves under the bridge upon which are stored the radiators, which have been delivered by a belt conveyor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When these two halves of the mold are finished they are put together, or closed on the shelf of the conveyor, which carries the finished mold to the man who pours the molten metal. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The gasoline tank, for example, comes down from the fourth floor on a conveyor outside of the building, and drops through a chute onto a bridge over the assembly line. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This trolley carries the axle to an elevator, which lifts it to a conveyor baking oven, located in a section of the roof. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The screw of Archimedes has been extended in application as a carrier of water, and converted into a conveyor of many other materials. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- At the end of this line it is shaken out over a grating, and the sand handled in the same manner as on the smaller conveyors. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Hence, it became necessary to invent a system of conveyors that would be capable of transferring this mass of material from one place to another. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is reloaded into cars by other conveyors operating at the base of each pile. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This core room contains perhaps the only endless chain core oven in this country in which are two endless chain conveyors. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Coal cars are dumped into hoppers under the tracks and the coal carried to the top of the piles by conveyors. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The bodies are let down the chutes on belt conveyors, picked up by small derricks and swung over onto the chassis. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Edison's work on conveyors during the period of his ore-concentrating labors was distinctively original, ingenious and far in advance of the times. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This sand was transported automatically by belt conveyors to the rear of the works to be stored and sold. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Between 1880 and 1890 there was great activity in the invention of what is known as store service conveyors. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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