. The street railway review . as to by-pass small coal notnecessary to be crushed without operating the coal crusher mech-anism, by simply swinging back the baffle plate away from thecrusher roll and permitting the coal to pass down and through ihccrusher mechanism into the hopper and chute under the crusher,which will deliver the coal into the lower horizontal line of theconveyor. The conveyor system installed at this station is of the well-knownMcCaslin overlapping gravity bucket conveyor type, manufacturedand installed by J. .V. Mead & Co., 11 Broadway, New York City. The conveyor driving m
. The street railway review . as to by-pass small coal notnecessary to be crushed without operating the coal crusher mech-anism, by simply swinging back the baffle plate away from thecrusher roll and permitting the coal to pass down and through ihccrusher mechanism into the hopper and chute under the crusher,which will deliver the coal into the lower horizontal line of theconveyor. The conveyor system installed at this station is of the well-knownMcCaslin overlapping gravity bucket conveyor type, manufacturedand installed by J. .V. Mead & Co., 11 Broadway, New York City. The conveyor driving mechanism is of the self-contained directconnected electrically driven type and is located in the upper lefthand corner of the boiler room next adjacent to the elevated coalbunker. Ihe upper line of the conveyor moves from right to leftand conveys, elevates and delivers the coal from the coal crushermechanism into the elevated coal bunker above the boiler room. A movable dumping carriage is provided, for automatically dc-. v;iA% Hi tin -li ^T «p^ i 0^} .ii -j/rK- -•4/.rv- POLE DETTAILS. livering the coal from the upper horizontal line of the conveyor intothe elevated coal bunker at any |K>int or points along its travel,and so arranged as to fill the elevated coal bunker without movable dumping carriage is controlled by the operator atthe wheel shown on the upper left hand corner of the illustrationnext adjacent to the conveyor driving mechanism, and is so ar-ranged that the movable dumping carriage can l)c moved citherforward or backward as may be desired. The conveyor bucketsafter discharging the coal into the clevateil coal bunker, passdown and under the elevated coal bimker to the vertical riser ofthe ascending track where it changes direction downwardly andalong to the coal crusher mechanism and thus the operation iscontinued. The horizontal, vertical and curved portions of the trackway forthe conveyor and movable dumping carriages, consist of steel T-rai
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