. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . NT. slant delivery of coal from the tenderto the engine while the conveyor mechan-ism is at work. The motion of the buckets and that ofthe worm in the longitudinal overheadconveyor is produced by the operationof a small twin engine with cylinders5x4 Ins., with .kj cut-oflf, the pis- it may be said, that the hopper is bolted tothe back head of the boiler above the firedoor and has an opening of 18x34 ins. atthe top. The hopper is 25% ins. deep andhas an opening io^x6H ins. at the bot-tom. This
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . NT. slant delivery of coal from the tenderto the engine while the conveyor mechan-ism is at work. The motion of the buckets and that ofthe worm in the longitudinal overheadconveyor is produced by the operationof a small twin engine with cylinders5x4 Ins., with .kj cut-oflf, the pis- it may be said, that the hopper is bolted tothe back head of the boiler above the firedoor and has an opening of 18x34 ins. atthe top. The hopper is 25% ins. deep andhas an opening io^x6H ins. at the bot-tom. This opening is controlled by a slideoperated by hand, and the amount of coalwhich passes out of the hopper is thus May, 1907. RAILWAY AND 1,0C0.\I( TIVE ENGINEERING regulated at will. The ho|)per when full lieap of cnal on the tabic and in the in- contains about 17S lbs. of fine coal, which terval, liefore the succeeding blast of is the kind for wbicli the stoker is steam issues forth, the coal quickly feeds designed. down on tl:e table and makes a heap as Immediately below the liopper is the II.\Vm;.\ .STOKEf-t. fire door, modified to suit door contains a slightly tapfiring coalpassage or chute, set at an angle of about45 degrees. The function of this passage,which at its lower end is 6x12 ins., is topermit coal from the hopper outside theengine to be delivered to the inside of thefire-box. The door is not connected withthe hopper in any way, and when theslide at the base of the hopper is closed,the fire door can be opened or closed byhand quite readily, as it is not a fixed partof the mechanical The coal, afterit passes tlirough this tapering chute in thedoor, is delivered on the door flangeabove the water space and on a flat tableS ins. wide by 24 ins. long, which is bolt-ed to the inside back sheet of the fire-box. The fine coal thus delivered remainsheaped on the table and up to the mouthof the tapering chute in the door.
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