The Bucket Wheel Excavator: Development, Design, Application (Series on Bulk Materials Handling Vol. 1 (1975) No. 2
Language: English
Published by Trans Tech Publications, Clausthal, Germany, 1975
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Olmstead Books, Port Dover, ON, CanadaOlmstead Books
AbeBooks seller since December 21, 2011
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 195.00
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The boards are square and tight, not bumped, previous owners stamp on front end page, the pages are bright. The dust jacket has tape applied to the inside leading edge, a two cm tear at top of spine and a one cm tear at top of front flap, in a Brodart cover now.
Seller Inventory # 12421
- Title
- The Bucket Wheel Excavator: Development, Design, Application (Series on Bulk Materials Handling Vol. 1 (1975) No. 2
- Author
- Rasper, Ludwig
- Publisher
- Trans Tech Publications, Clausthal, Germany
- Publication year
- 1975
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0878490124
- ISBN 13
- 9780878490127
- Edition
- First Edition US.
- Seller catalogs
- Transportation
This big book provides a detailed history of a big piece of machinery: the bucket wheel excavator. Rasper's well-illustrated survey of the BWE begins with 19th century American patents and carries into the 1970's.
BOOK DETAILS: 465 pp, just under 4 pounds; released with dustcover. Cloth over boards; sewn binding. B&w illustrations throughout: photos, technical drawings, charts, graphs, elevations, formulas. Over 90 pp of advertising reproductions!
TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1 - Origin & Development of the Bucket Wheel Excavator; 2 - Methods of Operation of Wheel Excavators; 3 - Bucket Wheel Excavator Design; 4 - Cutting Resistance & Digging Power; 5 - Regulations for Load Assumptions; 6 - The Bucket Wheel; 7 - Conveyor Belts on Bucket Wheel Excavators; 8 - Crawlers for Bucket Wheel Excavators; 9 - Lubrication Technology for Bucket Wheel Excavators; 10 - The Main Slewing Mechanism of the Bucket Wheel Excavator; 11 - The Steel Structure of the Bucket Wheel Excavator; 12 - Electrical Equipment for Bucket Wheel Excavators; 13 - The Role of the Bucket Wheel in Excavation; 14 - Bucket Wheel Excavator Mining Systems; 15 - Appendix; 16 - Reference List of Major Bucket Wheel Manufacturing Companies.
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Olmstead Books
Port Dover, ON, Canada
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