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Re: Building a gravel silo
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.build
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Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:40:11 GMT
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Hello Frank,
Why not make a silo with the small trap door, simillar to your first design,
but with only one compartment and also one discarge opening. When you
position this discarge opening in exactly in the middle between the rail
track and road surface, you only need a relatively short sloping chute to
reach both the rail hoppper and the dump truck. The chute must be moveable
to both sides, either by sliding or (maybe even better) by rotating. You
could place one of those small plate heigh turntables at the underside of
the chute. This arrangement would cut the neccecary horizontal transport
length of the chute in half. Besides this, you could use some 33 degree
slopes to reduce the contruction height of the chute even further.
Greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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| (...) I'll try to make a picture later this evening. Meanwhile I'll try to describe the designs a little better: The first design goes like this: when the gravel drops from a conveyor belt it drops into collectors seperated by a sloped surface. From (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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