LOADING COAL BY SUCTION
Tho vacuum-cleaner, principle is having new applications* every day • but one of the strangest is for tho unloading of coal care. A big Austrian power plant is being equipped to handle all its coal by vacuum pipes. Coal that is graded according to Austrian standards as dust coal and nut' coal is delivered ih carload lota to the plant, and a great pipe is dropped into the car. The coal is suckled up through this pipe and carried to the storage piles, 200 yards away. Coal for the boiler fires is carried from the storage pile by other vacuum pipes direct to the fire and there fed m by mechanical stokers.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13191, 27 September 1913, Page 10
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