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has}to discharge her present cargo into canal boats for various parts of Belgium, 
to bags for local consumption in Antwerp, and on to the wharf to await sale 
4nd transportation. 
ele iB: 18.—Apparatus for elevating and weighing the grain on boarda ship. 1. Top of the 
reg, ‘tor, 2. Drive wheel of the elevator worked from the ship’s machinery. 3. Hopper 
€lving grain from top of the elevator. 4. Grain belt leading to the weighing-bin. 5, 6, 7. 
steetts from the weighing-bin. 9. Sheet-iron weighing hopper suspended from one end of the 
othe yard 8. 10. Spouts leading over the ship’s side to canal boats. 11. Weights (bagged up) on 
rend of steelyard 8. 12. A grain belt not in use, and standing on edge. 
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4h (he elevator buckets, carried on endlass bands, are enclosed in tubes of 
; Cet steel, 24 feet square and iong enough to reach from the hatches of the 
'D to the bottom of the hold. ‘These are sufficiently light to permit half-a- 
Pech men, with the aid of the ship’s tackle, to place them in position in about 
tlfan-hour. One of these portable elevators is seen in Fig. 16. The 
tkmen are shown in the act of raising it from the wharf to the deck. ‘The 
ee end of the elevator is still resting on a wharf trolley, while the other end 
_ “Oncealed by the ship’s top-hamper. The appearance of the top of this 
*rtable elevator is well shown in Hig. 17; which shows the elevator fixed in 
Position and at work. 
th Light steel girders are fastened across the hatch in pairs, and to these 
4. levator is clamped in an upright position. The power for working the 
the ttor is supplied by the ship’s steam winch, the driving chain being shown at 
4 © extreme lower right hand of Fig. 17. The details of the transmission 
Gon t© Power and the gearing are well shown in the illustrations. Two such 
«ators are usually placed on each hatch, and five pairs of elevators may 
‘jena be seen working simultaneously on a single vessel’s cargo. The vessel 
ED Constructed especially for a composite trade, including grain, has her 
divided by half-a-dozen permanent transverse steel partitions, and the 
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