Storage clamp

A rent (from Latin Meta " cone "; regional friction ) refers to a certain form of storage of bulk materials.

Properties

Rent can be controlled throw up and form stable piles ( pile ). About the simple form can be on volume and density, the weight of the rent easily estimated. Irregular piles tend to instability ( landslides ) and have no simple geometric shapes, which complicates estimation of volume and weight.

Applications

In the mining and smelting large amounts of ore or coal are often stored in the form of rents; a similar form of storage on a large scale is the heap.

In the waste management compost waste is piled for Rent, to ensure optimum composting.

The earthworks of the ablated topsoil is stored in rents. The height or width of the rent is limited, so that the top soil is not too compacted and not die, the soil life essence contained therein. In Baierisch - Swabian room is this form of topsoil storage as Sly (from MHG slouwe ( f ) track, track later use for thick Heureihen ( before recharging ) ) respectively.

Horticulture and Agriculture

In horticulture Rent for winter storage of fruits and vegetables, such as root vegetables like carrots, potatoes, cabbages, but also apples are used. Often this double wooden boxes in which the fruit is stored protected along with sand, peat or straw from light and cold are. The fruits remain stable so for months. The condition is that only flawless copies are rented (without rot ): A rotten fruit can be rented the entire inventory spoil. Usually, the fruits are not or only roughly cleaned of adhering soil, as these earth's crust makes the surfaces, among other less sensitive to molds.

In agriculture, in particular sugar beets are piled up immediately after harvest only in long rows on the edge of the field, the so-called beet clamps. The beets are subject to weather conditions often, less often covered with straw with soil or tarpaulins to prevent frost can pull into it. If the beets then needed in the sugar factory, they are taken up for further processing with a beet cleaner loader and then transported by truck or field with tractors and trailers.

For the field storage of dry feed Diemen were built.

Underground scale Erdmieten called storage pit.