SELF-CLEANING ASHPANS FOR LOCOMOTIVES. A patent has been recently granted on an ashpan for locomotives which is provided with novel means for cleaning out the ashes. Our illustration shows a SELF-CLEANING ASHPANS FOR LOCOMOTIVES. locomotive ashpan fitted with the improved apparatus and partly broken away to show the details. There are in reality two ashpans one placed before the other and each provided with hoes attached to a pis ton which may be operated to hoe the ashes out of the pans. The forward pan is provided with two hoes of the cylinder. The piston in the cylinder is pro end of each
SELF-CLEANING ASHPANS FOR LOCOMOTIVES. A patent has been recently granted on an ashpan for locomotives which is provided with novel means for cleaning out the ashes. Our illustration shows a SELF-CLEANING ASHPANS FOR LOCOMOTIVES. locomotive ashpan fitted with the improved apparatus and partly broken away to show the details. There are in reality two ashpans one placed before the other and each provided with hoes attached to a pis ton which may be operated to hoe the ashes out of the pans. The forward pan is provided with two hoes of the cylinder. The piston in the cylinder is pro end of each pan is provided with an outlet normally closed by a damper. The rear of each pan is also pro vided with an opening through which the ashes may are of such form as to enter and close these openings when they are forced back to the position shown in the illustration. When the hoes are moved forward the dampers above referred to are opened by means of for bottom plate of the forward ashpan is also provided with a discharge opening which is intermittently opened and closed as the hoe A passes over it. The at the boiler head in a convenient position for opera tion by either the engineer or the fireman who may by this means reciprocate the hoes in the ashpan and thus cause the discharge of the ashes. The inventor of this improved locomotive ashpan is Mr. James S. Downing of 185 Cooper Street Atlanta Ga. SANITARY REFUSE RECEPTACLE. The ordinary refuse receptacles used in public places are merely open cans in which garbage ashes or other waste material is placed. The fact that these cans are open is a serious objection because it permits the breeding of germs which may be infectious. Fur thermore it is a temptation- to throw lighted matches or cigar or cigarette stumps into the can and set fire to the contents. To obviate these difficulties a new type of refuse receptacle has recently been devised which is illustrated in the accompanying engraving. refuse is introduced automatically clo
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