. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . very similar inoperation, either by a series of pistons orplungers which produce longer or shorterexhausts or strokes or steam jets, andtend to throw the coal closer to the flue- sheets or the back end of the fire-box andspread the coal very uniformly over thegrate surface. Some of them use de-flection plates to spread the coal. The stoker we have on our division andin operation was installed last June andis known as the ilayden stoker. Themethod of operation is as follows: Firstthe coal is t
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . very similar inoperation, either by a series of pistons orplungers which produce longer or shorterexhausts or strokes or steam jets, andtend to throw the coal closer to the flue- sheets or the back end of the fire-box andspread the coal very uniformly over thegrate surface. Some of them use de-flection plates to spread the coal. The stoker we have on our division andin operation was installed last June andis known as the ilayden stoker. Themethod of operation is as follows: Firstthe coal is taken from the tank by an ele-vator through a grating with 3-in. open-ings operated by a quadruplex engine,then passes into a conveyor and is ele-vated to the conveyor located over thefiremans head and is dropped into a hop-per over the fire-box door by a wormscrew and falls by gravity through a slidegate opening in the top of the fire-boxdoor on a table located just inside thefire-box door, 24 ins. long and 7 ins. wide,and is blown by a blast of steam vary-ing in length as desired by five separate. SAL!,\i; ele(,:tkic i.\ SWITZERLAND. nozzles or jets in the fire-box door, whichhave a tendency to cool the table and pre-vent its burning out. The center jet blowsthe coal toward the flue-sheet. The nexttwo jets on either side are located toplace the coal in the front corners of thefire-box. The two outside jets are locatedso that the coal will be distributed alongthe sides and the back corners of the fire-box. They are governed by separatevalves to regulate the blast of steamthrough each valve by common steamvalves and can be adjusted at will at anytime. On operating this machine we foundit desirajjle to run the front jet closed allthe time, as it is not needed on the en-gine on which we operated it, the nextjets a turn open and the back ones fullopen. The steam that furnishes the blast toplace the coal is controlled by a quad- ruplex engine located on the back end ofthe bo
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