Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1917 — A Motor Shovel. [ARTICLE]

A Motor Shovel.

Tn unloading ore or coal from the holds of vessels on the Great Lakes there is always, a certain amount of material in corners and between hatches that cannot be reached by the unloading buckets. The dock superintendent at Buffalo has designed a mo-tor-driven scraper shovel that moves such material much faster than it can be moved by hand. The machine carries a shovel that can be ralsed and dumped - automatically, bm whentwer possible the ore or coal is pushed underneath the hatch openings, where the unloading buckets haul it out of the ship. The power-scraper shovel is-said to do the work of from 12 to 40 shovelers, according to the type of boat; and to save from one to five hours’ Huie in. the unloading process.