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54 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
allow three full laps to remain on the drum when
the cage is at the bottom of the shaft.
CONSTRUCTION OF CAGES.
Section 85. All cages shall be of such construction
that in case of emergency they may be used
for lowering or hoisting men, they shall be equipped
with approved safety catches, and those having
unstable or self-dumping platforms shall be
provided with proper locking devices for fixing
the platforms, and such locking devices shall be
used where the cage is used to lower or hoist men.
CONSTRUCTION OF CAGES USED FOR HOISTING MEN.
Section 86. All cages regularly used for lowering
or hoisting men sliall be provided with strong
hoods and overhead coverings, and shall have a
suitable protecting lining to a height of three
feet above the floor on the two sides next to the
respective guides, and shall be provided with handholds
for at least 10 persons. The main link attached
to the swivel of the wire rope shall be made
of the best quality of iron, and shall be tested by
weights satisfactory to the chief inspector or the
deputy inspector of coal mines; and tbe bridle
chains shall be attached to tbe main link from the
cross pieces of the cage and no single link chain
shall be used for lowering or hoisting persons into
or out of any mine.
SELF DUMPING CAGES.
Section 87. When self-dumping cages are used,
they shall be so constructed as to prevent coal
falling into the shaft.
All hoisting apparatus shall be equipped with a
safety device to prevent over winding.
SPEED OF CAGES.
Section 88. In lowering or hoisting men, the
speed of the cage or trip shall not exceed 600 feet
per minute. No person shall be lowered or hoisted
in or on any cage or trip or other hoisting apparatus
carrying powder or other explosives, tools.
timbers, a loaded mine car or other load. The
chief inspector or the deputy inspector of coal
mines shall determine the number of men that
may be lowered or hoisted at any one time and
a notice of the number shall be posted by him in
a conspicuous place at the top and bottom of the
shaft and at all other landings. In no case shall
the total weight of the men estimated at 160
pounds each exceed one-filth of the safe working
load capacity of the brakes, ropes, links and othc r
connect ions bearing the cage.
RK.srsrn .vri \c APPARATUS.
Section 89. Every mine employing as many as
25 men underground shall be equipped with apparatus
as follows: One resuscitating apparatus,
a suitable supply of auxiliary apparatus, and "first
aid to the injured" outfit, including stretchers with
a woolen and water-proof blanket for each
stretcher, and a suitable supply of olive or linseed
oil.
RESCUE CREW.
Section 90. The owner of every mine employing
as many as 100 men underground shall endeavor
to have trained for rescue w-ork as many
as three crews of four men each, and the owner
of every- mine employing fewer than 100 men undeiground
shall endeavor to have two* such trained
crews.
.MANWAYS TO BE PROVIDED.
Section 91. In each and every coal mine, or
part thereof, opened after the passage of this act,
traveling-ways or man-ways must be provided and
maintained so that the employes need not travel
the main haulage-way going to or coming from
their work, such traveling-ways or man-ways shall
be maintained in good condition and free from noxious
gases, ponded water and all other obstructions
to the free and safe passage of men. Each
and every coal mine opened after the passage of
this act, and every separate coal seam worked in
the same mine, whether such coal mine or seam
is worked by shaft, slope, or drift, shall have at
least two properly equipped and properly maintained
openings available for exit for all persons
working in such mines, one of these openings maybe
the main delivery shaft or opening, the second
opening or escapement may be a shaft or a slope
or a drift, or underground passageway to an available
outlet of a contiguous operating mine, and
such outlet of a contiguous mine, and the approaches
to such outlet, shall be maintained in
good condition. In all mines hereafter opened.
the escapement opening shall be separated from
the main opening by not less than 300 feet of natural
strata, except by written consent of the chief
inspector of coal mines; provided, that in mines
operating in pitching or vertical seams, manways
need not be provided if shelter holes are constructed
in accordance with the provisions of section
55 hereof.
(TO BE CONTINUED IN ISSUE OF JUNE 1)
| KO-KOALS' DOINGS |
The Philadelphia Breaker, Order Kokoal, will
have its spring outing at Schuetzen Park, Tabor,
May 19. The day will be spent in all sorts of field
sports, to be followed by a shad dinner at 6:30
in the evening. The affair is in charge of Joseph
H. Palmer, W. E. Grace and Charles K. Scull.
Plans are under way to form a new breaker of
Kokoal at Newark, N. J., to afford the former members
of the extinct Coal Exchange some means of
social intercourse.