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An example of a standard type chain with cables running through it. Cable carriers, also known as drag chains, energy chains, or cable chains depending on the manufacturer, are guides designed to surround and guide flexible electrical cables and hydraulic or pneumatic hoses connected to moving automated machinery.
Drag chain may refer to: Cable carrier in moving machinery; Drag conveyor, for moving bulk material; A type of chain shift in linguistics; Part of a dragline excavator;
A bucket brigade or human chain is a method for transporting items where items are passed from one (relatively stationary) person to the next. The method was important in firefighting before the advent of hand-pumped fire engines, whereby firefighters would pass buckets of water to each other to extinguish a blaze.
Jack chain, a toothed chain used to move logs; Lead shank (or stud chain), used on horses that are misbehaving; Pull switch, an electrical switch operated by a ball chain. Lavatory chain, the chain attached to the cistern of an old-fashioned W.C. in which the flushing power is obtained by a gravity feed from above-head height. Although most ...
About 30 years later an iron casting plant was established in Brückl and the first snow chain worldwide was produced. After 10 years, the name “pewag” was created and at the same time, the plants in Graz and Kapfenberg were merged. In the seventies a sale company was founded, both in Germany and the United States.
The SEC announced Sunday that Texas would be fined $250,000 and ban anyone who threw something onto the field from attending a Texas sporting event for the rest of the school year.
John William King orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history when he and two others killed James Byrd Jr. nearly 21 years ago.
Cable ferries have probably been used to cross rivers and similar bodies of water since before recorded history. Examples of ferry routes using this technology date back to the 13th century (Hampton Ferry in England). In 1831 James Meadows Rendel introduced chain ferries worked by steam and in 1832 constructed one crossing the Dart at Dartmouth ...