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Conveyor   /kənvˈeɪər/   Listen
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Conveyor  n.  (Mach.) A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.






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"Conveyor" Quotes from Famous Books



... components—used as proximity switches, plugs, valves, cylinders; other components already are an integral part of industrial conveyor systems. ...
— The Practical Values of Space Exploration • Committee on Science and Astronautics

... hour's sturdy tramping brought him out of the tangled hills into civilization. There was a glitter of metal and vita-crystal dwellings that stood four-square to the sun and the winds. A broad ribbon-conveyor hurled its shining length in ceaseless rush down the narrow valley. Human beings—normal homely Earth men with the ordinary number of legs and arms, with honest-to-God faces and warm living flesh, were seated on the conveyor-benches ...
— Slaves of Mercury • Nat Schachner

... Co., Alma Crude oil Remington Salt Co., Syracuse Salt Retsof Mining Co., Retsof and Livonia Rock salt W. Rielly, Cobleskill Limestone E. P. Roberts, Cortland Granite Robins Conveying Belt Co., New York city Belts and conveyor on separator Rochester Brick & Tile Co., Rochester Brick Rossie Metallic Paint Co., Rossie Mineral paint Rudolph & Dotterwich, Allegany Crude oil D. G. Scholten, Gouverneur. Bronze medal Marble Scio Oil ...
— New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 - Report of the New York State Commission • DeLancey M. Ellis

... drums were already being lifted off the trucks, weighed, screened electronically, and moved toward a loading elevator on a conveyor. ...
— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun



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