Temperley Transporter Co
Temperley Transporter Company of Bishopsgate Street, London
1894 Antwerp Exhibition[1] - also see Joseph Temperley
1900 Description and drawing of transporter plant ordered by the Compagnie des Phosphates et du Chemin du Fer de Gafsa, for erection at Sfax, Tunisia to handle phosphates. [2]
1900 Article and illustrations of the Temperley transporter system for the Electricity Supply Corporation at Deptford [3]
c.1906 Jessop and Appleby Brothers amalgamated with the Glasgow Electric Crane and Hoist Co and the Temperley Transporter Co, trading as Applebys.
1909 Article about Temperley transporters in Engineering. Introduction: 'Since the Temperley transporter was first introduced nearly seventeen years ago to provide for the loading and unloading of ships a mechanism analogous to, but with a greater range than, that afforded by ordinary derricks or jib-cranes, there have been great developments, and now there are in use over a thousand installations, embracing adaptations to suit almost every condition under which such appliances can be utilised. The origin of the system was the invention, in 1892, of a traveller which could automatically raise, traverse, and lower a load while supported and running along the flange of a simple I-beam suspended in an inclined or horizontal plane to a ship’s derrick or mast. From this successful system there has been evolved elaborate structures, in which the beam is carried on travelling transporters with long cantilever arms .... '. The article refers to various installations, including the system at the Deptford Generating Station of the London Electric Supply Corporation, the traveller-rope being operated by a direct-acting steam-engine placed at the ground-level in the base of the tower near to the boiler house. Coal was conveyed from the quay at the coal at a speed of about 1200 ft. per minute. Mention was also made of a number of other installations, including a system at the Poutilow Works at St. Petersburg, for unloading coal from barges and depositing it into railway trucks, and at the Poole Gas Works of the Bournemouth Gas and Water Co.[4]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1894/06/01 p469
- ↑ Engineering 1900/05/11 pp.614-5
- ↑ The Engineer 1900/06/22 p635 & 639
- ↑ Engineering 1909/01/08