. The Street railway journal . condensing. Aform of coolingtower which hasbeen used exten-sively in St. Louisand elsewhere ismade under thepatents of GeorgeJ. Stocker, 2831Victor Street, , Mo. Inexternal appear-ance it is asshown in the ac-companying en-graving, which is one of the standard Stocker towers. They arealso made of steel or brick, as the customer may desire. The water is pumped to the top as in all cooling towers, andtrickles down over the cooling surfaces, which are made up ofboards in horizontal layers, set at right angles to each other, andprovided between their intersec
. The Street railway journal . condensing. Aform of coolingtower which hasbeen used exten-sively in St. Louisand elsewhere ismade under thepatents of GeorgeJ. Stocker, 2831Victor Street, , Mo. Inexternal appear-ance it is asshown in the ac-companying en-graving, which is one of the standard Stocker towers. They arealso made of steel or brick, as the customer may desire. The water is pumped to the top as in all cooling towers, andtrickles down over the cooling surfaces, which are made up ofboards in horizontal layers, set at right angles to each other, andprovided between their intersections with upright oblique fan blowers at the base are mounted in ring oiling, self-ad-justing bearings. Two fans are used, instead of one, as is usual,and by this it is claimed a better circulation of air is obtained to agiven amount of power and size of tower, because the air is moreequally distributed throughout the tower. The water is distributedat the top of the tower by a system of funnel-shaped troughs of. IMPROVED COOLING TOWER February i, 1902.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 169 galvanized iron, so constructed that the water flow is evenly dis-tributed over the cooling surfaces. These troughs, it is claimed,are not so likely to become clogged by the sediment of impurewater as are perforated pipes, and the troughs are easy to clean. The gallery around the top of the tower serves the double pur-pose of making the distributing apparatus easily accessible for in-spection and cleaning and preventing possible splashing and blow-ing of the water over the walls of the tower. The basin under-neath the tower in which the cooled water gathers, and fromwhich it is led to the condensers, is, according to the location ofthe tower, built either of concrete or brick, or is a steel pan. Inboth instances, the construction must be such that the impuritieswill have a chance to settle out. The Stocker tower is claimed tobe of much lighter weight than other designs of tower, and he
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