How to Operate a Wilfley Shaker Table

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The Wilfley shaker table shown is a standard No.12 right-hand version. It is a mechanically operated reciprocating action table, consisting of a self-oiling enclosed type of head motion, a partly riffled rectangular deck, and an understructure with a tilting device for the table. Head Motion The head motion is a self-oiling Pitman and toggle type. […]

Diagonal Plane Shaking Table Design

The James Diagonal Plane Table

Recent experiments indicate that the usual type of gold concentrating-table is not only poorly adapted to produce the desired results, but also is based upon an incorrect principle, namely, the use of riffles to perform the work of stratifying the various minerals. We have heard a good deal about riffles for concentrating-tables; exhaustive experiments have been […]