. Railway mechanical engineer . strong incentiveto renewed effort in fuel conservation as these conditionsof fuel waste are decreasing operating efficiency and in-creasing the cost of transportation. A LOCOMOTIVE SAND BOX SCREEN BY A. P. JANDERGeneral Foreman, A. T. & S. F., HutchinsoD, Kans. A source of great annoyance in the roundhouse and on theroad is the stoppage of the pipes and traps of the locomotivesanding apparatus. A properly working sanding apparatusis especially to be desired in bad weather as great harm isoften done to an engine through the failure of the sandingequipment to work
. Railway mechanical engineer . strong incentiveto renewed effort in fuel conservation as these conditionsof fuel waste are decreasing operating efficiency and in-creasing the cost of transportation. A LOCOMOTIVE SAND BOX SCREEN BY A. P. JANDERGeneral Foreman, A. T. & S. F., HutchinsoD, Kans. A source of great annoyance in the roundhouse and on theroad is the stoppage of the pipes and traps of the locomotivesanding apparatus. A properly working sanding apparatusis especially to be desired in bad weather as great harm isoften done to an engine through the failure of the sandingequipment to work properly at a critical time, and in additionthe delays occasioned by the failure of this apparatus fre-quently have serious results. In drying and screening sand at the sand house all foreignmatter is not always removed and this getting into the sandbox eventually chokes the sand pipe so that the apparatuswill not operate in a satisfactory manner. To overcome thistrouble the writer has designed a sand box screen as illus-. Screen for Use In Filling Locomotive Sand Boxes trated in the accompanying sketch. This screen may beailjusted over the mouth of the sand box and as the sand ispoured in, the screen is turned slightly, thus permitting theclean, fine sand to enter the box, but excluding all stonesand foreign matter. Two of these screens kept in a con-venient place, one on each side of the sandhouse, so thatthey may be used when filling the sand boxes of locomotives,will eliminate a great deal of the trouble experienced on theroad. The expense of making the screens and the timerequired for their operation is so small that it need not beconsidered. An engine can be as easily and as quicklysanded with these screens as without them and if made ofproper material, they are practically indestructible. 526 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER Vol. 93, No. 9 RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION NEWS Enlargement of tlie Board of Railroad Wages and Work-ing Conditions from six to twelve mcmljcrs is under con
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