. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . er of the fuelused on many of the railways of GreatBritain, that spark arresting not much needed on the other sideof tlic Atlantic. Tlie .nssumptions are tration has been fitted to one of theGreat Northern 8-coupIed shuntingengines. It consists of a curved plateplaced at the back of the blast spark arrester is the outcome of along series of carefully conducted ex-periments with a variety of form of arrester which is a solidplate against which the sparks s
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . er of the fuelused on many of the railways of GreatBritain, that spark arresting not much needed on the other sideof tlic Atlantic. Tlie .nssumptions are tration has been fitted to one of theGreat Northern 8-coupIed shuntingengines. It consists of a curved plateplaced at the back of the blast spark arrester is the outcome of along series of carefully conducted ex-periments with a variety of form of arrester which is a solidplate against which the sparks strikeappears to be the most satisfactoryform yet tried on this railway. AsMr. Ivatt very truly says each smoke-box is a law unto itself, and the curveof the plate has to be altered to suitdifferent engines, but the principle isthe same in all. The action of the arrester appears tobe to cause the sparks to be thrownagainst the plate and deflected in theircourse before they are carried out ofthe stack by the action of the blast,and it is the knocking about and thedelay of their exit that kills .SPARK ARRESTER ON THE GREjVT NORTHERN GF ENGLAND. The alteration in the curve of thespark deflector is occasioned by thevarying degree of steaming abilitypossessed by each engine to which thedevice has been applied. partly negatived by the fact that H. Ivatt, locomotive engineer ofthe Great Northern Railway of Don-caster England has been making someexperiments for the purpose of reduc-ing the number of live sparks thrownout of the smoke stack. Writing to Railway and LocomotiveEngineering on the subject, says: The experiments havebeen carried out more with the idea ofreducing sparks than for coal consump-tion, but as far as we have got I do notthink the spark arresters are having abad effect on the coal consumption,but we do not yet know enough to becertain on this point. The arrangement shown in our illus- Mr. A. Agathocles, an old subscriber toRailway and Locomotive
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