The Transport Tube
The pneumatic tube carriers move through especially for pneumatic tube fabricated (gray) plastic pipe. There are also transparent, aluminum and stainless steel tubes available. On first sight the plastic transport tube looks the same as sewage pipe. However, they are not interchangeable. The diameter of the transporttube is much more accurate than the sewage pipe, the carriers could seize on these constrictions in the tube.
This plastic transport tube is available in different diameters, i.e.:
- 63 mm
- 90 mm
- 100 mm
- 110 mm
- 130 mm
- 160 mm
- 315 mm
Besides the transporttubes are also special fabricated bends. These are available in various radii.
During the first years of the pneumatic tube were particularly steel pipe used. But also the dangerous asbestos was widely used material. Beside round, there were also oval pipes.
Pneumatic Tube, Rohrpost, Buizenpost
Pneumatic Tube Calendar
7 July 1898 (126 years ago)
Commissioning Pneumatic Tube Mail Rotterdam in the Netherlands
1 July 1922 (102 years ago)
First Re-Commissioning Pneumatic Tube Mail Munich, Germany
5 July 1962 (62 years ago)
Pneumatic Tube Mail Algiers, Algeria, out of business
15 July 2012 (12 years ago)
Elon Musk first publicly mentions his version of the concept passenger and freight transportation, the Hyperloop