steel industry, I'm looking for info on a Hewlett Bucket Unloader

[Anonymous]

I have the Trains video: making & moving steel on the rails. In the video they show two Hewlett Unloaders unloading coal from a ship. I have searched the patent office using the information in the tape plus just about anything i can think of on the net.

Anyone know where I can find infomation on these machine's?

If you've not seen one; think of one of those oil pumps used in oil fields, rocking up and down. Make it a hundred feet long and the neck that dips down brings up 10 tons of coal on every lift in it's bucket. Looks like a dinosaur or giant insect feeding.

Thanks,
Kevin

[coalminer3]

IIRC, it was a Hulett loader. Anyway, see if you can find a copy of Douglas A. Fisher's book, Steel Making in America. It was published by U.S. Steel in 1949; it has a fair amount of information about Huletts and gives a good snapshot of the industry as it was right after WW2. Another useful book is AIME's work, History of Iron and Steelmaking in the United States. This is a compilation of articles from the Journal of Metals. It was published in 1961. Finally, there is a reaaaal old one titled Non-Technical Chats on Iron and Steel. It was first published in 1917and r/p by Lindsay Publications in 1992 - it has some great stuff on Huletts; including shipboard photographs.

A quick search on Dogpile using the term Hulett loaders yieleded a neat ASME booklet on Huletts; turns out they are an engineering landmark. Great stuff with a lot of pictures

Hope this helps. Good hunting

work safe

[Anonymous]

try the site www.boatnerd.com
This site is awesome and has a wide variety of Great lakes Freighter Stuff on it and you can find all sorts of pics and stories of the hueletts....

[jrbarney]

Kevin,
Welcome to the MR Forums !
Another resource you might want to try is the collection of Chicago Daily News photos at the Library of Congress:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/cdnhome.html

Bob
NMRA Life 0543
Bob

[jimrice4449]

A few years ago Mainline Modeler had a series of articles on the Huelett and some other kinds of unloaders with their usual super sharp photo reproduction. I think they also had drawings. Each issue has about three pages towards the front showing available back-issues and the contents of each. You should find just what you're looking for and from a model railroader's perspective to boot.

[jrbarney]

When you're doing a search, spelling counts, it's Hulett:
http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?opt=S&cmdtext=hulett&MAG=ANY&output=3&sort=A

Bob
NMRA Life 0543

[Anonymous]

There is a company on the net BEARCOMARINE.COM that sells plans/diagrams of a Hulett unloader also check the library of congress or just google "hulett" or "Hewlett" to find some interesting sites. One has some great photos of Huletts at Cleveland's Whisky Island before they were torn down.