The wonders of modern mechanismA résumé of recent progress in mechanical, physical, and engineering science . of coal, without the aidof hand labor. Several forms of fillers are used for conveyors, of whichthe spout continuous filler is perhaps the most ingeni-ous. Its operation should be easily understood from The conveyor-buckets move slowly and continu-ously on the long chain, while a series of guides revolveon a short endless chain. The coal coming in from thespout cannot spill between the conveyor buckets, owing tothe guides, and the arrangement insures each bucket beingloaded in
The wonders of modern mechanismA résumé of recent progress in mechanical, physical, and engineering science . of coal, without the aidof hand labor. Several forms of fillers are used for conveyors, of whichthe spout continuous filler is perhaps the most ingeni-ous. Its operation should be easily understood from The conveyor-buckets move slowly and continu-ously on the long chain, while a series of guides revolveon a short endless chain. The coal coming in from thespout cannot spill between the conveyor buckets, owing tothe guides, and the arrangement insures each bucket beingloaded in a level and even manner. The elevated railroads have a specially-devised methodof storing coal for the convenient loading of locomotives. CO A L-HANDLING MA CHINER V. 313 A large coal-pocket is erected near the tracks. From thisrun endless conveyors to a smaller coal-pocket builtabove the tracks. The conveyor-buckets pass under thelarge coal-pocket and receive a supply of coal from one ormore chutes. Then they pass to the top of the small coal-pocket, where they dump their loads. The locomotives Fig. THE C. W. HUNT CO\rPANYS CONTINXJOUS FILLER. can stop under the small coal-jiocket and take in a tender-load of coal through a chute without delaying a train anylonger than the ordinary stoppage at a station. In electric-light stations, gas-works, etc., it is usuallydesired to get rid of the ashes as well as bring in the coal. 314 WONDERS OF MODERN MECHANISM. For this purpose the endless conveyors, after bringing incoal and depositing it at the boilers, are led to the under sideof the ash-pit, from which they receive the ashes by meansof a filler, and carry them to a place of deposit, usually anelevated pocket outside of the buildings, where they areleft while the conveyors continue their round. For out-side conveyors the C. W. Hunt Company raanulactiire apatent non-freezing engine, so constructed as to be with-out pockets in which water can lodge and freeze. Fig. 77.
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