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'Shown here are the loading booms in action. Each of the five loading tracks is served by a loading boom, and the loading system is interconnected so as to permit blending of sizes and loading of any size group on any track. The loading booms gently lower the coal into the cars with a minimum of opportunity for dust or degradation. The loading facilities are sufficient to permit the loading of a car every two minutes. The adjoining track system permits rapid assembly of trains, interchange between the two railraods, and sufficient trackage for the storage of 858 railroad cars of 70 ton capacity.'

1. Loading Booms in Action

IDNO:: 003350
Title:: Loading Booms in Action
Date:: undated
Description:: 'Shown here are the loading booms in action. Each of the five loading tracks is served by a loading boom, and the loading system is interconnected so as to permit blending of sizes and loading of any size group on any track. The loading booms gently lower the coal into the cars with a minimum of opportunity for dust or degradation. The loading facilities are sufficient to permit the loading of a car every two minutes. The adjoining track system permits rapid assembly of trains, interchange between the two railraods, and sufficient trackage for the storage of 858 railroad cars of 70 ton capacity.'

Used to improve coal quality by reducing the ash.

2. Jeffrey Baum Jig at Jamison No. 9

IDNO:: 003332
Title:: Jeffrey Baum Jig at Jamison No. 9
Date:: 1954/10/05
Description:: Used to improve coal quality by reducing the ash.

Coal is moving along a slope conveyor belt.

3. Slope Conveyor Belt at Williams Preparation Plant

IDNO:: 003295
Title:: Slope Conveyor Belt at Williams Preparation Plant
Date:: 1953/05/15
Description:: Coal is moving along a slope conveyor belt.

5 x 3/8 inch raw coal is flowing into a chance cone system

4. Washing Coal with the Chance Cone System, Williams Preparation Plant, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

IDNO:: 003299
Title:: Washing Coal with the Chance Cone System, Williams Preparation Plant, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company
Date:: 1953/05/15
Description:: 5 x 3/8 inch raw coal is flowing into a chance cone system

'Link-Belt 33460, Link-Belt rotary mine car dumper at Heavy-Media coal preparation plant of Pocahontas Fuel Co. Inc., Itmann, W. Va. Capacity of plant is 750 tons of raw coal per hour. Nov. 1951'

5. Link-Belt Rotary Mine Car Dumper, Pocahontas Fuel Company, Itmann, W. Va.

IDNO:: 003355
Title:: Link-Belt Rotary Mine Car Dumper, Pocahontas Fuel Company, Itmann, W. Va.
Date:: 1951/11
Description:: 'Link-Belt 33460, Link-Belt rotary mine car dumper at Heavy-Media coal preparation plant of Pocahontas Fuel Co. Inc., Itmann, W. Va. Capacity of plant is 750 tons of raw coal per hour. Nov. 1951'

Coal traveling on conveyors. Credit Must Be Given. Not to be reproduced without written license from William Vandivert.

6. Coal Being Processed

IDNO:: 003352
Title:: Coal Being Processed
Date:: 1947/07
Description:: Coal traveling on conveyors. Credit Must Be Given. Not to be reproduced without written license from William Vandivert.

Coal on a conveyor.

7. Oil Treatment, Stoker Coal

IDNO:: 003353
Title:: Oil Treatment, Stoker Coal
Date:: 1947/07
Description:: Coal on a conveyor.

8. Coal Being Processed at Champion Cleaning Plant

IDNO:: 003340
Title:: Coal Being Processed at Champion Cleaning Plant
Date:: 1929/02/18

9. Welder at Work Above a Loading Boom in a Preparation Plant

IDNO:: 003338
Title:: Welder at Work Above a Loading Boom in a Preparation Plant

'This enclosed raw coal conveyor belt starts the coal on its journey through the Georgetown Preparation Belt. The belt is 641 feet long and moves at a speed of just above 10 miles per hour. The coal is taken to the top of the plant, where it is given a preliminary sorting by size and then sent through one of the three cleaning circuits incorporated in the preparation system.'

10. Raw Coal Conveyor Belt at Georgetown Preparation Plant

IDNO:: 003341
Title:: Raw Coal Conveyor Belt at Georgetown Preparation Plant
Description:: 'This enclosed raw coal conveyor belt starts the coal on its journey through the Georgetown Preparation Belt. The belt is 641 feet long and moves at a speed of just above 10 miles per hour. The coal is taken to the top of the plant, where it is given a preliminary sorting by size and then sent through one of the three cleaning circuits incorporated in the preparation system.'

11. Loading Coal at a Coal Preparation Plant

IDNO:: 003335
Title:: Loading Coal at a Coal Preparation Plant

Coal traveling on a conveyor.

12. Conveyor Belt at Jamison No. 9

IDNO:: 003351
Title:: Conveyor Belt at Jamison No. 9
Description:: Coal traveling on a conveyor.

13. Head of Raw Coal Belt Conveyor with Magnetic Separator

IDNO:: 003326
Title:: Head of Raw Coal Belt Conveyor with Magnetic Separator

14. Slung Feed Arrangement to Disc Type Vacuum Filter

IDNO:: 003315
Title:: Slung Feed Arrangement to Disc Type Vacuum Filter

'Inside of a thermal furnace 1/2 showing.'

15. Thermal Furnace

IDNO:: 003262
Title:: Thermal Furnace
Description:: 'Inside of a thermal furnace 1/2 showing.'

16. Thermal Dryer Dust Collector

IDNO:: 003314
Title:: Thermal Dryer Dust Collector

17. Coal Being Dumped During Processing

IDNO:: 003316
Title:: Coal Being Dumped During Processing

Coal moving across three vibrating screens.

18. Double-Deck Vibrating Screens

IDNO:: 003199
Title:: Double-Deck Vibrating Screens
Description:: Coal moving across three vibrating screens.

19. Jig with Double Middling and Interior Refuse Conveyor

IDNO:: 003313
Title:: Jig with Double Middling and Interior Refuse Conveyor

20. Deister Table Cleaning Slack Coal, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

IDNO:: 003268
Title:: Deister Table Cleaning Slack Coal, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

Coal in a plant in a chute for processing.

21. Processing Coal

IDNO:: 003276
Title:: Processing Coal
Description:: Coal in a plant in a chute for processing.

22. Coal Distributor for a Bin at Jamison No. 9

IDNO:: 003321
Title:: Coal Distributor for a Bin at Jamison No. 9

'One of the places where the automatic sampler with its grinding mill operates.'

23. Williams Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company

IDNO:: 003270
Title:: Williams Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company
Description:: 'One of the places where the automatic sampler with its grinding mill operates.'

'The sheltered construction of the processing equipment makes it difficult to photograph the coal in flow through the circuits, but this is a flash of the raw coal feed pouring into the 16.5 foot Chance cone. In this cone-shaped vessel, a mixture of sand and water is kept at a controlled gravity by agitation and by control of the proportions. This gravity is set to separate the clean coal from the refuse. The lighter coal is floated on top of the mix and guided to a discharge to continue its processing, which includes desanding, scrubbing, sizing, and moisture removal. The heavier refuse meanwhile sinks to the bottom and is passed to the refuse disposal system. This large cone has a capacity of 500 tons per hour.'

24. Chance Cone Feeding Coal

IDNO:: 003330
Title:: Chance Cone Feeding Coal
Description:: 'The sheltered construction of the processing equipment makes it difficult to photograph the coal in flow through the circuits, but this is a flash of the raw coal feed pouring into the 16.5 foot Chance cone. In this cone-shaped vessel, a mixture of sand and water is kept at a controlled gravity by agitation and by control of the proportions. This gravity is set to separate the clean coal from the refuse. The lighter coal is floated on top of the mix and guided to a discharge to continue its processing, which includes desanding, scrubbing, sizing, and moisture removal. The heavier refuse meanwhile sinks to the bottom and is passed to the refuse disposal system. This large cone has a capacity of 500 tons per hour.'