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May, 1939
Barvoys Washery at Wingate
Drawings and Photographs accompanying the article
| Sample | Description |
|---|---|
 | Barvoys Washery at Wingate |
 | Fig. 1 — Flowsheet of the Wingate plant. Busty coal is crushed to 2½ in. to keep it out of the house coal ; the Barvoys box is divided to wash large and small coal independently, and slack is dedusted and treated in a Hoyis washer |
 | Fig. 2 — Side of Barvoys box, showing middlings tubes and delivery on to middlings screen |
 | Fig. 3 — Raw coal entering the Barvoys box. The division into large and small coal is clearly seen, as are the scrapers to draw the floats to the clean-coal discharge |
 | Fig. 4 — Diagram of Barvoys box and heavy-medium circuit |
 | Fig. 5 — Slack dewatering screen and drive over classifying screen |
 | Fig. 6 — Electric feeder under raw-coal hopper |
 | Fig. 7 — Niagra screen and portion of deduster |
 | Fig. 8 — Clean coal delivery from Barvoys box |
 | Fig. 9 — Barytes mixer supplying Barvoys box |
 | Fig. 10 — Shale band from Barvoys washer |
 | Fig. 11 — Boyis washer for slack, comprising a washing trough for coal, two barrel and decanter units, and a shale washing trough |
 | Fig. 12 — Vacuum filter extracting thickened solids from wash water after use in Hoyis washer |
 | Fig. 13 — Aerex fan serving the Lessing deduster |
Article reproduced from a copy of the magazine held at National Mining Museum Scotland, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
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