. Engineering and Contracting. ding. In the ma-chinery room wi! be two 50 kw., 220-volt, di-rect-current geii;;ating sets, two boiler feedpumps and a feed water heater. At the northend of the building will be the office room anda locker room for the workmen. Instruments for measuring the temperaturesand for analyzing the waste gases will beprovided. This design provides several special fea-tures to which I wish to call your attention asfollows: (1) The garbage, being stored by itselfaway from the ashes and rubbish, can bedrained of its free water. .According toanalyses made by Prof. R. E. W. S
. Engineering and Contracting. ding. In the ma-chinery room wi! be two 50 kw., 220-volt, di-rect-current geii;;ating sets, two boiler feedpumps and a feed water heater. At the northend of the building will be the office room anda locker room for the workmen. Instruments for measuring the temperaturesand for analyzing the waste gases will beprovided. This design provides several special fea-tures to which I wish to call your attention asfollows: (1) The garbage, being stored by itselfaway from the ashes and rubbish, can bedrained of its free water. .According toanalyses made by Prof. R. E. W. Sommerwith Milwaukee garbage, this free water,which will drain away under pressure of thegarbage itself, amounts to as much as 7 per £-Confh^cf9r •af^timtiffi^ ?«#// — CUNH£mf/6 Mir, a Comht/sfOf C^amSer ?ra 0 • % ..,^1 o o ? a B IH a 01 E) BCfe^ £iecTm ^^uMpyWa,^ /r»9^ -i* n •-•^^?^- .-^ furnaces sndCombi/^fOn Chamber _B E furnsceti ancfComhvifori Cftsmbe*- a n o CLINKERING ROOM r—f CUNKCRING ROOMBCLOW. Fig. 2—Plan at Elevation of Clinkering Room,Milwaukee Refuse Incinerator. Fig. 3—Plan at Elevation of Mixing and FeedingFloors, Milwaukee Refuse Incinerator. and mixing floors with tlie grates of the fur-naces. They will enter the furnace throughthe top and will discharge on to a dryinghearth at the back of the grate. In each tube,just above the furnace top, will be a dooractuated by a wheel within the reach of thefiremen on the clinkering floor. Turning thiswheel lifts the door of the charging tube outof its sand sealed seat and allows the contentsof the tube to fall on to the hearth tubes will be made of sheet steel and willbe larger at tlie bottom than at the top. Thedoors will be made of plates and angles andwill move on ratchet gears with an eccentricattachment to lift the door. There are four furnace units, each of whichconsists of grates or cells, a combustionchamber, an air heater and a water tube boil-er. The six cells with the ducts
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