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.