. American engineer . s designed and has been patented by N. , of the mechanical engineers office at Altoona. Pa., and hasalready successfully tired a large locomotive for over fifty trips,doing 100 per cent, of the firing. This stoker is of the over-feed or scatter type, employing steamjets for distributing the coal over the fuel bed. It consists essen- hcad of tlie boiler just below the fire door. This opening; is thelower part of an enlarged lire door opening of the ordinary con-struction. The conveyor is of the reciprocating type with swing-ing fingers and the trough of the inclined s
. American engineer . s designed and has been patented by N. , of the mechanical engineers office at Altoona. Pa., and hasalready successfully tired a large locomotive for over fifty trips,doing 100 per cent, of the firing. This stoker is of the over-feed or scatter type, employing steamjets for distributing the coal over the fuel bed. It consists essen- hcad of tlie boiler just below the fire door. This opening; is thelower part of an enlarged lire door opening of the ordinary con-struction. The conveyor is of the reciprocating type with swing-ing fingers and the trough of the inclined section is of cast steel,the bottom having notches or steps which prevent the coal slid-ing backward. The coal distributer is simple in its arrangement and consistsof a flat cast iron plate or apron extending inside the firebox;two cast iron vertical wings, one on either side, which are hingedat the rear, and two stationary steam jets which discharge, froma point just back of the wings, diagonally across the apron. The. End of the Conveyo rangement of Jets and Deflecting Wings on the Gee Stoker. tially of four parts, tic, the source of power, the coal crusher,the coal conveyor and the coal distributer. The first three areof the same general style used on the Crawford stoker. Thesource of power is a cylinder 18 in. diameter and 11^2 in. strokesecured to the locomotive frame below the cab, which transmitsreciprocating motion through a jack shaft to the coal crusherand the conveyor. The crusher is located beneath the rear endof the coal pocket in the tender and the conveyor is in a troughbelow the tender floor and transfers the coal from the crusherto the distributer. It is horizontal to the end of the tender andis then inclined upward, terminating at an opening in the back angle of discharge is such that the center of the two jets meetat a point a few inches in front of the center of the plate. Thetwo wings are connected by a cross bar, giving them simultaneousmovement, and are op
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