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Rare trade catalog of engineering and contractor services for designing coal tipples and coal processing plant systems

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Unrecorded and rare c.1917 trade catalog of engineering and contractor services issued by Roberts and Schaefer Co. of Chicago, designers of coal tipples and other coal processing plant systems.

The catalog has Arts and Crafts-era design elements and is wonderfully illustrated with creative layouts. Half-tones depict coal tipples—mine structures for loading coal—at coal mines throughout the country including Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, and Montana. Tipples performed various processes such as screening, sorting, washing, drying, and loading onto railroad cars for transport. Coal products seen here include coke (for making iron and steel) and anthricite, for domestic use (cooking and heating).

Illustrations show a variety of tippling operations such as a three-track tipple, coal washeries, a twin screen tipple, and a locomotive coaling plant. Specific tipple elements engineered and constructed by Roberts and Schaefer Co. include the “RandS” Patent Shaker Loading Boom; Marcus Horizontal Screen and Picking Table (almost 70 in use); “traveling bridges for unloading, storing, reclaiming, screening, and shipping coal”; and coal storage bins.

Two copies of a one-page typed list of 24 coal seams, titled “Code for Seams of Coal,” are laid in. Each assigns a number and, typically, adds a brief note concerning that seam. The coal seams were located in Dunkard, Monongahela, Conemaugh, and Allegheny, all in Western Pennsylvania.

Not in OCLC.

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