616 • THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN. ____________________ September 24, 1915. COKE OVENS WITH DIRECT RECOVERY OF BY-PRODUCTS. SIMPLE AND EFFICIENT. NO NOXIOUS EFFLUENT. COAL WASHERS SIMON-CARVES LTD MANCHESTER LATCH & RATCHELOR LD. Wire Drawers, Manufacturers of all classes of Wire Ropes. Patentees and Manufacturers of LOCKED COIL AND FLATTENED STRAND WIRE ROPES. HAY MILLS, near BIRMINGHAM. Pl». a. HAULING. Pig. I. HAULING. Lang't Lay Ropes. Patent Flattened Strand Ropes. Pig. 26. WINDING. Pig. 4. WINDING. RPENCER & QO. LD Engineers, Melksham WILTS BRANCH OFFICES. HULL- Burnett Avenue. CARDIFF- 92, Claude Road. LONDON— 3a, Queen Victoria Street, E.C. LIVERPOOL- 34, Castle Street Fig. 13«. SINKING. Advantages of Patent Flattened Strand Ropes. 1. Greater wearing surface, therefore longer life of rope and less wear upon pulleys. 2. Greater strength, thereby admitting of smaller ropes being used for existing loads, or of increased loads without increase in size of rope. 8. Spliced easily and more effectively. 4. Less tendency to twist and stretch in working. Fig. 18a for Sinking and Fig. 11b for Cranes, &c., are non-twisting. Pig. 11b. CRANE, &c GEORGE BURNSIDE, Burnside’s Safety Boring Apparatus. Used most successfully in topping old Mine Workings. Apply /or Cntalogus. Boring Tool Works, Shiney Row, Fencehouses, Also Eye Guards fob Pit Ponies. CO. DURHAM. WINDING. Locked Coil Ropes. Indispensable for deep shafts. Stronger than any other rope of same sise. Entirely free from twist. Smooth surface reduces wear to a minimum. Duration far ahead of any other construction. Pig. 20. GUIDE. D. Llewellin Evans PROPRIETOR OF THE Cardiff Brattice Cloth Company, 120, BUTE ST. CARDIFF. AGENT FOR Kobers Explosives. AULD’S PATENT STEAM REDUCING VALVES FANS for all volumes and pressures. Also Makers of Special FULL BORE ^Patent Steam Reducing Valves for Blowing, I Winding, Pumping and other Engines, and for supplying Surplus or other steam from high to low pressure boilers, &c. James Keith & Blackman Co. Ltd. DAVID AULD & SONS, Patenter* and Raisers, LTD. Whitevale Foundry, GLASGOW. 27, Farringdon Avenue, LONDON. WIRE ROPES OF ALL KINDS. Agents for Yorks, Notts. Derby & Leicester— YEADON, SON & CO., Albion Place, LEEDS. W. B. BROWN & CO. (BANKHALL) LTD., Globe Works, Liverpool