Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1912 — DEVICE FOR UNLOADING CARS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEVICE FOR UNLOADING CARS

Turntable Used In Germany, Capable of Being Swung Completely Around and Tipped. A car especially designed to elevate and dump cars loaded with coal, gravel and like materials, to being used in Germany. It comprises a flatcar of especially strong construction - on which Is mounted a turntable bearing rails. This turntable to capable of being swung completely around and can be tipped to an angle of 45 degrees. Normally It is inclined at an angle of 80 degrees, so as to form an unbroken line with the

approaches on which the cars are drawn onto the turntable for unloading and are run from it after the operation. Cables, driven by a motor, draw a car at a time onto the turq* > table, the turntable Is given a quarter turn, its inclination is Increased from 30 to 45 degrees, and the load is allowed to discharge from the end of the car. Then the turntable is lowered again to the 30-degree inclination, turned another quarter-revo-lution, and the empty car run off the

table on a second set of approach rails. The operation of the turntable is executed by means of a second motor. The idea is to provide each long coal train with an unloading device. It will elevate and unload six to eight cars an hour with ease.—Popular Mechanics. : -Y ' “ ' '

A Car for Elevating and Unloading Gondola Care.

A Car Inclined by the Elevator and Discharging Its Load.