Locomotive appliances . cooling of the flues, flue sheet andfire-box, and often causes them to leak. The accompanying engraving shows one design oftelescoping smoke jack. It will be seen that the telescope portion is counter-balanced by suitable weights hung near the damper is located just above the ball-bearinghood, which fits tightly into the locomotive smoke jack here shown has a swinging joint, sothat no breakage could occur by moving the enginefrom under it without first raising the jack. By an ingenious arrangement the damper is auto-matically closed whenever the jack
Locomotive appliances . cooling of the flues, flue sheet andfire-box, and often causes them to leak. The accompanying engraving shows one design oftelescoping smoke jack. It will be seen that the telescope portion is counter-balanced by suitable weights hung near the damper is located just above the ball-bearinghood, which fits tightly into the locomotive smoke jack here shown has a swinging joint, sothat no breakage could occur by moving the enginefrom under it without first raising the jack. By an ingenious arrangement the damper is auto-matically closed whenever the jack is raised, thussaving heat in the round house which would otherwiseescape through the jack. LOCOMOTIVE FIRE KINDLERS. The Ferguson locomotive fire kindler consistsessentially of a tank to contain oil, a hose couplingfor connection with the compressed air system or withthe main reservoir of another locomotive, a hoseterminating in a nozzle for spraying the mingled oiland air, and a valve for controlling the relative pro-. portions of oil and air. The tank is most convenientlymounted on a truck, by which means it may be easilyremoved from one part of the roundhouse to another. The valve is the principal feature of novelty. Turn-ing the cock regulates the proportions of air and oiladmitted into the tube. Turned one way, air alone (435) 436 LOCOMOTIVE APPLIANCES. passes through and oil adhering to the inside of thehose is removed. The tank holds twenty-five gallons of oil, which issufficient to kindle fires in forty engines, on an fifteen minutes of one mans time and threequarts of cheapest crude oil are required to start a kindler is very easy to operate. The nozzle,which is at the end of a long tube, and to which isattached a small piece of lighted waste, is thrust intothe ash-pan, and the flame passes up through the fuelpreviously placed upon the grates until it is whollyignited. The same apparatus can also be used as a blow-pipe for heating tires, straigh
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