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Domestic Screening Plant

ca. 1925

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Domestic Screening Plant
  • Title
  • Domestic Screening Plant
  • Creator
  • Rust Engineering Company
  • Date
  • ca. 1925
  • Identifier
  • 200606.80.16
  • Description
  • A reinforced concrete screening plant built by the Rust Engineering Company for the Koppers Seaboard Coke Company at their Kearney, N.J. plant. Screening plants sorted coal or coke by size and type before funneling the material into cars. The plant is an early example of a structure built by the “sliding form” method, in which the same concrete mold, or form, could be used multiple times. Concrete would be injected into the form and allowed to set. The form would then be hoisted higher on the structure with a crane and refilled to complete another section. The process is much faster than using single fixed molds and is ideal for tall structures.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Buildings
    Coke industry
    Coke plants
    Concrete construction
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Kearney (N.J.)
  • Source
  • Rust Engineering Company Records, 1905-1989
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Rust Engineering Company Records
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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