Portable Scales For Single Floor Sore

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31208, 4 November 1966, Page 20

Portable Scales For Single Floor Sore

Scales have an important part to play in a wool store for wool must frequently be weighed. The concept of wool handling in a singlefloor store where bales are carried right into the store on the deck of a motor lorry and may be deposited almost anywhere in the store has necessitated the designing of a new type of scales that can be moved around the store to the point of unloading or loading out. There are two of these portable or mobile scales in

National Mortgage’s new wool store at Woolston built by W. and T. Avery (N.Z.), Ltd. They are the first of this type to be built by the firm, the parent organisation of which has a history of making scales and weighing machines going back more than 200 years to the late 17205. These scales have been made in Christchurch using some imported components. Of steel construction they are mounted on rubber-tyred ball-bearing wheels for easy

movement. When in use the wheels are raised and the machine sits solidly on pads on the floor. It is self-level-ling so that an uneven surface does not affect its accuracy. The scales may be fitted with ramps on either side of the platform to facilitate the bales being carried by barrow up on to the platform and then off again. When the scales are being moved the ramps are folded across the platform, but the scales may be supplied with only

> one ramp or none at all. The > platform is built low to the ; ground so that bales may - be eased on to the platform - without great effort from a ■ barrow. These machines record I weights up to 8001 b and have ! faces on both sides. > In older stores the scales ■ were set into the floor in i fixed positions and this type i of scales still has a place in I the sorting and classing i area. i But in the modern single ' floor store the alternative to having some portable or

mobile scales would be to instal a considerable number of the fixed type machines. Averys also build weighbridges in New Zealand. One of these measuring 40ft by 10ft will be installed at New Zealand Cement Holdings Ltd., Dunedin, for weighing bulk road and rail tankers. It will carry up to 125 tons. Another measuring 50ft by 10ft has recently been supplied to the Utah Mining and Construction Company for installation at the West Arm at Manapouri for weighing

road transp<bj Averys eithetnanufactiire weighing maettes or scales or are represeled in more than 45 counts and the headquarters athe parent organisation L<it Soho in Birmingham t England, where the firm »k over the foundery initii' used by James Watt antßoulton of steam engine file. The photogtoh above shows portable &ery scales being used in » Woolston store in conjittion with the handling odvool. P.B.A.