NEW WEIGHBRIDGE

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 261, 31 July 1937, Page 13

NEW WEIGHBRIDGE

Up-to-date Mechanism at King’s Wharf A weighbridge of the latest type to be seen in New Zealand was tested at King’s Wharf yesterday afternoon. It has been erected for the Wellington Harbour Board, and is capable of weighing any load up to 20 tons. Even then its capacity is said not to be taxed to its fullest extent. The weighbridge itself is completely self-contained in a massive framework stoutly ribbed. The platform is 20ft. by Bft., and this is of extra strong design to stand up to modern traffic. The actual weight-taking portions of the mechanism are constructed on the three-lever principle to eliminate various kinds of stress and to permit perfect alignment. Human errors involved in balancing a steel-yard by hand are eliminated by an ingenious indicator which gives instantly on a big circular dial the exact load of whatever is on the platform. Unit weights are controlled by a convenient lever, a simple movement of which brings into operation one, two, three or four weight divisions. Tare beams can automatically deduct any fixed or known tare within their capacity, so that net weight only is recorded on the dial. The speed attained in weighing allows traffic to be cleared in half the time required when weighing by other ordinary non-visible methods, and this in itself should help considerably in clearing the volume of transport work on the wharves.