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October, 1939
Turnbull Improved Loader
F. Turnbull & Co. (Engineers) Ltd., Heaton Junction Works, Newcastle-On-Tyne, and Park Road Works, Gateshead-on-Tyne, are now manufacturing an improved loader for the handling, ground-stocking and reclaiming of all kinds of loose materials, including coal and coke. Great care appears to have been taken in the design to take into account not only capital cost but also questions of labour, power requirements, simplicity and flexibility of control, and maintenance cost, and we understand that it has been thoroughly tested under various conditions on a wide range of materials.
As may be seen from our illustration, the loader incorporates an automatic shovel and feeder of the positive jigging type operated by a simple mechanism actuated by the main conveyor drive. The conveyor can be supplied in various capacities and lengths, the maximum inclination being fixed by the particular material to be handled. The complete unit is mounted on a braced steel framework provided with traction wheels suitable for negotiating soft or uneven ground and arranged for either hand or power traversing. The loader can also be power slewed either for feeding into the pile on either side or for negotiating bends. The loader jib may be of the extending type and may also be hand or power hoisted. When reclaiming material which has been degraded due to previous handling or to weathering, a rescreening attachment can be fitted to remove the fines, thus loading only a first-class product. The power unit for the loader can be either oil or petrol engine or electric motor.
Article reproduced from a copy of the magazine held at National Mining Museum Scotland, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
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