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  2. Road roller - Wikipedia

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    Caterpillar soil compactor equipped with padfoot drum, being used to compact the ground before placing concrete Antique "Kemna" steamroller. A road roller (sometimes called a roller-compactor, or just roller [1]) is a compactor-type engineering vehicle used to compact soil, gravel, concrete, or asphalt in the construction of roads and foundations. [1]

  3. Sandbox (locomotive) - Wikipedia

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    Engine sheds in the UK were equipped with sand drying stoves, so that sandboxes could be refilled each morning with dry sand. Steam locomotives in the US had a single sandbox, called a sand dome, atop the boiler where the rising heat helped to dry the sand. Even with this arrangement, sand pipes tended to clog, and by the 1880s, pneumatic ...

  4. Compressed-air vehicle - Wikipedia

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    The tanks must be designed to safety standards appropriate for a pressure vessel, such as ISO 11439. [6]The pressure vessels or air storage tanks that can be used in compressed-air vehicles can be made for low pressure (9 atm (130 psi)) or high (more than 240 atm (3,500 psi)), and can be made of composite materials like thermoplastic and fiber-reinforced thermoplastics, [7] [8] that means that ...

  5. Pneumatic tube - Wikipedia

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    A pneumatic tube system in Washington, D.C., in 1943. Pneumatic tubes (or capsule pipelines, also known as pneumatic tube transport or PTT) are systems that propel cylindrical containers through networks of tubes by compressed air or by partial vacuum. They are used for transporting solid objects, as opposed to conventional pipelines which ...

  6. Chicago Pneumatic - Wikipedia

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    Chicago Pneumatic, also known as "CP", is an industrial manufacturer providing power tools, air compressors, generators, light towers and hydraulic equipment. Products are sold in more than 150 countries through a worldwide distribution network.

  7. Vacuum truck - Wikipedia

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    Vacuum truck. A vacuum truck, vacuum tanker, vactor truck, vactor, vac-con truck, vac-con is a tank truck that has a pump and a tank. The pump is designed to pneumatically suck liquids, sludges, slurries, or the like from a location (often underground) into the tank of the truck.

  8. Automated vacuum collection - Wikipedia

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    An automated vacuum waste collection system, also known as pneumatic refuse collection, or automated vacuum collection (AVAC), transports waste at high speeds through underground pneumatic tubes to a collection station where the waste is compacted and sealed in containers. Full containers are transported away to be emptied.

  9. Underground pneumatic boring - Wikipedia

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    Underground pneumatic boring is a trenchless method of installing underground utilities. The process creates an open-air chamber, referred to as a borehole . The borehole is then used to run utilities.