Word: conveyor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nimba facilities. The U.S.'s Raymond International Inc. laid the 167-mile railroad from Nimba to Buchanan and built a seaport there from breakwater up. The Netherlands' Phillips installed an electronic rail-traffic control system; Krupp made the ore-handling equipment. Aided by a maze of conveyor belts and closed-circuit TV control panels, LAMCO can load ore into a ship in less than nine hours after it has been mined. At the foot of Mount Nimba has grown up Liberia's third largest community, where most of the company's 470 foreign staff and their...
Short, Climate-Controlled Life. U.S. farmers produce a 31-lb. chicken in nine weeks with 8 Ibs. of feed-which is one-third less time and half as much feed as it took a few years ago. Mother hens set in climate-controlled rows while separate conveyor belts carry away their droppings and their eggs (average per hen: 200 fertilized eggs yearly). Automatic incubators coddle more than 50,000 eggs at a time, radioactive isotopes trace what goes on inside chickens to find better nutrients, and each chick is vigorously hormonized, vitaminized (A, B, D, E, K) and de-beaked...
...PHRENOLOGICAL LETTUCE PICKER, which "feels" each lettuce head to determine if it is ripe for harvest. Towed over the lettuce bed at one mile per hour, a 6-in. by 18-in. conveyor belt creeps over each head, pushing it downward in passing. The machine's small, electronic memory box has already been told how stiffly a ripe head should resist deflection. If the black box decides the head feels ripe, it triggers a clutch, which in turn sends a miniature guillotine slashing through the lettuce stalk. In recent tests, the machine lopped off some 4,500 heads...
...NEEDLE -IN -THE -HAYSTACK" FINDER was devised to eliminate dangerous bits of baling wire in cattle feed. Davis engineers wrap a coil of copper wire around a standard pneumatic conveyor pipe that carries feed from chopper to storage bin. The wire is energized to set up a magnetic field inside the pipe. When a piece of iron or steel disturbs the field, an electrical pulse triggers a device that closes off the pipe's supply of feed and opens a side slot. Out flies the baling wire, along with a small amount...
...some 50 jobs, from billing to cost analysis. Meanwhile, the paper has just put in automatic, three-a-minute plate casters that promise to save the paper $325,000 a year and 35% of the man-days employed in the current stereotype process. Other newspapers have installed sophisticated conveyor-belt systems, and many have automated mail rooms. Papers are planning to use their computers for management studies, making out payrolls, for sorting and setting classified...