COMMERCE IN MAIZE GRAIN 609 



"The grain is lifted by two elevators, each having a capa- chap. 

 city of 150 tons per hour, to the top of the silo, and from XIL 

 thence by means of band-conveyors running in two galleries it 

 is distributed to any required bin or storage floor. There are 

 eighty-two bins, and six floors where the grain can be stored 

 in bulk. These six floors are each arranged with thirty-six 

 floor spouts. These floor spouts are fitted with sliding sleeves 

 at the top and bottom by means of which the grain can be fed 

 to or taken from any floor. 



" On the first floor of the building, arrangements have been 

 made for sacking-off. On this floor are six Avery portable 

 grain weighers with sacking-off appliances. The grain when 

 sacked-off can be delivered by means of sack shoots, either to 

 trucks or to sack bands which run along the approach gantry, 

 at the end of which they can be delivered by means of an out- 

 side conveyor direct to barges/ This conveyor can be lifted 

 back into a tower in the centre of the front gantry and is then 

 protected from the weather. Outgoing grain can also be 

 handled in bulk with equal ease. 



"On the ground floor of the silo are placed a number of 

 conveyors which are fed from the bins and lead to either of the 

 two elevators. These are used for the purpose of ' turning- 

 over '. It is possible to 'turn-over' at the rate of 300 tons 

 per hour ; this large capacity is obtained by means of cross 

 bands at the top of the silo, which allow the two elevators 

 to feed simultaneously to one band, the two bands in the 

 galleries having been specially made to deal with 300 tons per 

 hour. 



" Messrs. Henry Simon, Ltd., have also installed all the 

 electric motors, the lighting, and a complete system of tele- 

 phones. The power is transmitted to the travelling ship 

 elevator through a series of plugs placed along the front 

 gantry. By means of these same plugs the ship elevator tower 

 is also connected to the silo by a loud-speaking telephone, an 

 arrangement which is particularly useful." 



562. New Silo for the Manchester Shift Canal Company. — 

 The silo which Messrs. Henry Simon, Ltd., are building and 

 equipping for the Manchester Ship Canal Company at the end 

 of No. 9 dock, Salford, is to have a holding capacity of 40,000 

 tons, is to be five stories high and constructed in reinforced 

 concrete. 



" The building is to have a sacking shed running right 



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