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Bale spears can often move both round and square large bales. [3] [4] Bale squeezes are used with bales that are wrapped for silage, [5] large piles of large and small square bales, [6] as well as a special squeeze that can be used to unroll large round bales for winter feeding. [7] Bale handlers with hooks are used to move large and small ...
A hay elevator is an elevator that hauls bales of hay or straw up to a hayloft, the section of a barn used for hay storage. Hay elevators are either ramped conveyor belts [1] that bales rest on, or a mechanized pair of chains that holds bales taut between them. The term hay elevator also includes machinery involved in the stacking and storage ...
A second elevator was either installed at a 30-degree slope on the side of the barn to lift bales up to the peak elevator or used dual front-back chains surrounding the bale to lift bales straight up the side of the barn to the peak elevator. A bale wagon pulled up next to the lifting elevator, and a farm worker placed bales one at a time onto ...
The bucket elevator is the enabling technology that permitted the construction of grain elevators. A diverter at the top of the elevator allows the grain to be sent to the chosen bin. A similar device with flat steps is occasionally used as an elevator for humans, e.g. for employees in parking garages.
Elevators, as developed for the drilling industry, are a hinged device with handles that are used to wrap around the tool joint of drill pipe, casing or lift nipples (for collars) to facilitate the lifting or lowering of them singly or of the drill string as a whole.
Johnson Lifts established a joint venture with Japanese company Toshiba Elevator and Building Systems Corporation (a subsidiary of Toshiba) called Toshiba Johnson Elevators (India) Pvt. Ltd. on 27 October 2012. [15] [16] [17] Johnson Lifts stated that it entered into the partnership as it lacked the technology to produce high-speed lifts. The ...
Orenstein & Koppel (normally abbreviated to "O&K") was a major German engineering company specialising in railway vehicles, escalators, and heavy equipment. It was founded on April 1, 1876, in Berlin by Benno Orenstein and Arthur Koppel.
Railroad grain terminal in Hope, Minnesota. A grain elevator or grain terminal is a facility designed to stockpile or store grain. In the grain trade, the term "grain elevator" also describes a tower containing a bucket elevator or a pneumatic conveyor, which scoops up grain from a lower level and deposits it in a silo or other storage facility.