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Powerful hydraulic press for scrap metal baling

hydraulically-operated sliding cover. running in four self- the allgning wedge pleces; at tura of a wheel at the control desk the lid moves.over and is firmly clamped to the container. "Three ram motions Only after the lid is closed can the three pressing rama be operated in the predetermined

·Tam forward, sequence one one ram sideways, and one ram

only upwards, and

after the movements have com- rom

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The disposal of scrap metal in large works often prosents a serious pro- blem, as can be gathered from a statement that a powerful hydraulic baling press installed at the Luton factory of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., is saving the firm nearly £200 per wook in reduced labour and trans-

$ port charges. Not only s0, but the new preceding operation being com- true weight of the scrap metal

DAVID HOUSE controlled, be equipment is stated to have pleted.

Signal lamps indicate the the figure being shown on a doubled the works' baled scrap

of each individual large dial. completion capacity-it needs, fewer men

This eliminates pressing stroko to operate than the smaller possible sources of production through operational presses it supersedes, and the stoppages bales of scrap are more com-

emergencie pact.

In the production of Vauxhall cars and Bedford trucks the shee! in the metal left as "waste" press shop after the various parts have been pressed and trimmed to shape amounts to more than 1,300 tons a month.

mistakes

In case of such

as a power cut or a drop in the water supply light and sound signals are provided.

can

accurately

From the loose and bulky scrap, the press thus produces a from tight, compact bale, free

na and lags, easy to handle, and charge load, transport,

As it is into the furnaces.

final by a the

Large 'container

handled Up to 10cwt. can be

but the normal at one time, lond is about 7cwt..

When the

right weight

is elected by

press renched the hopper is hydraull-push of the upward ram, the cally raised and turned over so bale is pushed by the cover on that its contents are discharged to gravity roller conveyor for Scrap is conveyed by ru into the large container of the loading straight on to a lorry for about trucks

the from

press press.

The dimensions of the transport to the Vauxhall rail container

Bft. are :

1litt. X

siding. shop This scrap hydraulically-operated loading 3ft, Din. x 4ft. 4in. deep, which

Fawer wagons bin, which is at door level to large enough to

tipping with the biggest pieces from the press A Bedford-Scammell articu- facilitate

shop.

fated six-wheeler operating minimum of handling.

the The container. body is fabri- with a fleet of three trallers ribbed steel carries 24 bales at a time to the

rollway siding.

tower

und

into

This arrungement, and

take

wearing plates;

the

For

the

arc

is pressed Into bales and then sent by rail to the steel works to be melted down and used again in the form of new steel,

To dent

with the

and butt by the movements and press "bin cated of strongly

action walls, securely bolted together designed and Loewy Engineering Co., Ltd., is are centralised, expedites load- and lined with renewable hard

used

British Ing with the desired weight of steel the largest

the in

and among scrap. Industry and automobile the most powerful in the world,

Prior to

to this press coming into service the limited capacity of the old scrap-baling plant was a major problem, and much of the scrap which could have been baled with suitable plant had to be loaded into rallway wagons in loose form},

Twenty bales an hour.

for

GC4

Transport costs were greater than if the scrup had been baled, and scrap metal buyers pay more! for buled scrap than loose metal because it is more suitable charging electrle are furnaces.

The

baling plant Bew cupies building 75ft. long, 34f1. wide, and 34rt. high from foundations to roof, and oper ates 16 hours a day, baling well over a thousand tons of scrap each month at the rate of one bale every three minutes rate which can be increased it

necessary.

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The bales measure 18in. wide by 15h high, and vary in length from 32in. to 48in, the Scwt. weight varying between

the and 10cwt, depending on sort of scrap handled which includes steel sheet up to Kin, thick.

The operation of the press is mechanised to u high degree. Loading. weighing, baling and discharging operations are con-

central trolled from

controi desk.

A main feature of this pressi plant is that the sequence of innin operations is arranged in such a way that no movement | can be carried out without the

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railway wagons

A 13-ton used

than before.

only hold Loading takes place latter are slotted longitudinally wagon which will

loose scrap will lons of while the previous lead in being to prevent small pieces of scrap

being lodged between them and easily cure Dales.

accommodate is full lond compressed,

the bin is the For the weighing

ram heads to

A month's eliminate of detached

output of scrap therefore needs automatically

from Jumming. that thel It is closed by a massive 20 fewer wagons than before, the lifting levers 50

is driven by D The press Loewy platonless air hydraulic accumulator of 100 gallona. use. ful water capacity working at two tons per square inch work-

And

total pressure,

Giant new aluminium

rolling mill opened

The opening by the British Minister of Bupply of the plant new aluminium rolling mill of the Northern Aluminium Company at Rogerstone, near Newport, In the Bri. Monmouthshire, is a major "development in tish fight metals industry. The new rolling mill, the most efficient one of its kind outside the United Statée, has been erected on a 100-acre site at the cost of ap- Aroximately £3,500,000 and is capable of fabricating 50,000 tons of sheet and strip aluminium a year-a total which will increase Britain's production by more than a third, Mr. G. R. Strauss, the Minister of Supply, after the inaugurat ceremony, watched Ingots, weighing near- ly two tone, pass along the "hot rolling line, and emarga a few minutes later as fong rails of thin aluminium plate. This picture shows a strip passing through the intermediate hat reversing mill.

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capacity of 140 cuble feet. The pressure water is fed into the accumulator by a Loewy horl-

niot three-throw pressure

pump of 34 gallons per minute capacity, driven by a 150-h.p. motor.

The accumulator con- sists of seamless drawn steel air

bottles. and water

The pressure pump is of the totally enclosed type. It is forced feed

equipped with

lubrication system, and suction and delivery valves have seats of stainless steel.

When the pump has illed the water bottles up to the highest level, the by-pass valve auto- matically by-passes the water delivery into suction tank, and is drawn from the when water bottles the by-pass apparatus switches the water delivery back until the desired water level is 98ectrically-controlled

low

level valves shut off the water supply from the accumulator be- fore the lowest water level is reached, so that no air goes into the delivery pipes leading to the press.

In addition, an electric safely device and electrically-con- trolled acoustic signals come -Into...operation to inform the

when the operator

highest pressure or the lowest water level has been reached,

has

The accumulator drive the advantage over direct pump drive as there is always an adequate waler supply pro- vided by a comparatively small pump.

First flights of two

aircraft

new

Britain's. -largest and smallest military aircraft made their first flights last month. The two new aero- planes were the Blackbur-. and General Aircraft GAL 60. transport and the Hawker P.1081 jet fighter.

The dimensions of the new fighter are less than those of any other military aircraft, now flying in Britain. Its wing span is 31 ft. in, and its length 37 ft. 4 in. The swept-wing P.1081 has been built as

a private venture by Hawkers and is a development

of two of their other successful and the fighters the F1040 P.1052.

The first won the world's fastest. Alr Race last year for the SBAC Challenge Cup, and the P 1052 is known to have flown at very high Mach numbers. the Their production fighter, Sea Hawk is now being built in quantity for the Royal Navy.

The now design incorporates. swept-back tallplane and a swept- back fin. The earlier Hawker. fighters had bifurcated air intakes and jet nozzles, but the Rolls- Royce None of the P1001 has a single straight-through Jet nozzle. The. GAR which made Its first fight from

sirácia, at

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General Aircraft/kburn, and Brough, Yorkshire, second only in pise, to the Bristol Brabazon, civil airliner. Its span

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102

ft, length 89ft and height

It powered by four Bristol Hercules engines, and has a crow of Tour. The under-carriage is of the fixed tricycle type with twin

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