ILLUSTRATIONS
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Intake end of Pneumatic Conveyor, with rise and fall adjustment Frontispiece
1. King’s pneumatic system. Steam-driven air pump 12
2. Sturtevant rotary blower 17
3. Nash “Hydro-Turbo” exhauster 19
4. Sturtevant “Cyclone” dust separator 21
5. Automatic bag filter 23
6. Mollers’ air filter 24
7. Sturtevant wet filter 26
8. Fixed discharger with glass receiver 30
9. Sturtevant patent junction 33
10. Course taken by material round bend 35
11. Segment-back bend 35
12. Lobster bend 35
13. King full-way junction valve 37
14. Suction nozzles for high pressure systems 40
15. Sturtevant equipment removing wood refuse from double tenoning machine 41
16. Sturtevant equipment removing dust from sand papering machines 42
17, 18. Ancient and Modern 46
19. Typical grain-handling plant 47
20. Floating pneumatic transport plant 49
21. Portable pneumatic plant on railway truck 50
22. Portable railway plant in operation 52
23. Pneumatic unloading of coal 55
24. Discharger for coal conveying plant 57
25. Brady steam jet ash conveyor 75
26. Typical Lamson inter-communication carrier 82
27. Tube central in wholesale drug house 87
28. Lamson distributing station 88
29. Stationary turbo-exhauster with dust separator 91
30. Portable turbo-exhauster 91
31. Suction cleaning for railway carriage cushions 93
32. Sturtevant equipment for office cleaning 93
33, 34. Air-lift pumping 98
PNEUMATIC CONVEYING