. American engineer and railroad journal . ar out, for allthe parts are heavy castings, and in ordinary working thetable revolves only three or four times in a of the Producer producers as well as the engines are in duplicate. Theyare 7 feet In diameter by 15 feet high, and are fitted witha bucket fuel elevator and Bildt automatic feeders. Thegas passes from the producers into the vertical econo-mizers, where it Is cooled by giving most of its heatto warm the blast of air used In making more air draft is produced by a Korting steam blower,the steam being supplied
. American engineer and railroad journal . ar out, for allthe parts are heavy castings, and in ordinary working thetable revolves only three or four times in a of the Producer producers as well as the engines are in duplicate. Theyare 7 feet In diameter by 15 feet high, and are fitted witha bucket fuel elevator and Bildt automatic feeders. Thegas passes from the producers into the vertical econo-mizers, where it Is cooled by giving most of its heatto warm the blast of air used In making more air draft is produced by a Korting steam blower,the steam being supplied by the small upright boilerIn the corner of the house. In summer this Is the only steamrequired about the plant. The gas enters at the top of theeconomizer and passes out through a wash box below. Theair is drawn up from the bottom of the economizer, passing outnear the top, where the hot gas enters. The wash box removesa large part of the tar and acts as a seal to prevent the gas Inthe holder from passing back into the producer. From the. Fig. 5.—One of the Large Otto Gas Engines No. Otto Engine Works, Philadelphia, Pa. 3. Visibility of the ashes, and accessibility of the aperturesfor their removal, arranged so that operator can see what heIs doing. 4. Level, grateless support for the burden. Insuring uniformdepth of fuel at all points and consequent uniformity in theproduction of gas. In this producer, shown in Fig. 9, there is no grate to wastecoal through, and there is practically no waste in deep ash bed permits the coal to burn up clean, and Inpractice the carbon is frequently gasified so that less thanone-half of one per cent, of the original carbon remains in thecoal. Any clinkers that will pass through a six-inch space willbe discharged from the producer in regular grinding withoutany manipulation or waste of fuel, and this distance may beIncreased if desired. Cleaning is done without stopping theproducer for a moment and the quality of the g
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