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Conveyor Drive
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James Blaesius, a Falk employee, operates a fork-lift that carries a component of a conveyor drive. This unit was purchased by Kaisers Engineers and used by Asarco Incorporated of El Paso, Texas. Original Falk caption reads: "140 BU worm gear with 11 foot coupling and 40 RC reducer on bed plate with 150T LS coupling on worm. See Engineering File for exact details."
March 1979
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FT Coupling
January 15, 1975
Male employee, Jake Gemmel, attending to a FT coupling. Original Falk caption reads, "These pictures taken to illustrate FT coupling size... this is the largest FT we [Falk] have produced in recent...
Welding of a Worm Gear
July 1975
A male employee, Harold Ladwig, welds an area on a worm gear. Original Falk caption reads, "A series of pictures taken in Weld Shop to illustrate steps in the manufacture of Type B worm gear drives."
T Series Coupling Installation
September 1, 1973
View of a 200T10 coupling. Falk caption reads, "Photo taken for possible use in T10 service manual. Photos show proper installation procedure."
Slide Coupling
March 1976
A male employee, Al Arndt, attends to a slide coupling. This particular coupling was purchased and used by Blaw-Knox. Falk caption reads, "Photos of a special slide coupling. Size 50GL32S... See En...
G Series Gear Couplings
March 13, 1974
View of a gear test at Falk that is done to "show parallel alignment of hubs with unequal diameters."- according to original Falk caption.
Inching Drive
June 6, 1977
Tim Wollenziehr, a Falk employee drives a fork-lift carrying an inching drive, a later component of a coal pulverizer. This unit was purchased by Babcock and Wilcox Company and used by the Missouri...
