. Electric railway journal . motor having arating of aproximately 35hp., the inclined conveyormotor, one of 15 hp., andthe horizontal conveyormotor one of 10 hp. Thecoal is delivered to thestokers by means of roundchutes made from ingotiron plates. These chuteshave spreaders on their ends evenly to distribute thecoal over the stoker magazine. The bunker is fittedwith undercut gates of cast iron operated from theboiler-room floor by hand chains. The method used in removing ashes is as follows: Anarrow-gage track is located under each row of ash hop-pers in the boiler-room basement. Steel platfo
. Electric railway journal . motor having arating of aproximately 35hp., the inclined conveyormotor, one of 15 hp., andthe horizontal conveyormotor one of 10 hp. Thecoal is delivered to thestokers by means of roundchutes made from ingotiron plates. These chuteshave spreaders on their ends evenly to distribute thecoal over the stoker magazine. The bunker is fittedwith undercut gates of cast iron operated from theboiler-room floor by hand chains. The method used in removing ashes is as follows: Anarrow-gage track is located under each row of ash hop-pers in the boiler-room basement. Steel platform carscarrying two buckets of 1 cu. yd. capacity each arepushed along these tracks and loaded by gravity fromthe ashpit hoppers. They are then run outside theboiler-room basement to a loading trolley, shown in anillustration on page 679. This is about 110 ft. longand can accommodate three gondola cars on each buckets are lifted from the small platform cars andemptied into the gondolas by means of a traveling elec-. COAL AND ASHES HANDLING CRUSHER AND BUCKET CONVEYOR, N. & W. RY. PLANT COAL AND ASHES HANDLING SUSPENDED OOAL BUNKER AND- CHUTES, N. & W. RY. PLANT .April 14, 1917] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 679
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