. Electric railway gazette . temperature. The device takes up no seatingspace whatever. The fire, as explained, is belowthe level of the car floor; the piping therefrompasses in front of the seat up through the roof,and the diameter of the whole is only seveninches. The vertical wooden strips which arefirmly fixed around the piping, may be hugged(or cuddled, as they say in Scotland) withoutthe slightest danger of the party being a word, it is perfectly safe, being absolutelyfire-proof. There is no gas, odor nor burns hard coal or coke. The furnace of the Peerless is capableo
. Electric railway gazette . temperature. The device takes up no seatingspace whatever. The fire, as explained, is belowthe level of the car floor; the piping therefrompasses in front of the seat up through the roof,and the diameter of the whole is only seveninches. The vertical wooden strips which arefirmly fixed around the piping, may be hugged(or cuddled, as they say in Scotland) withoutthe slightest danger of the party being a word, it is perfectly safe, being absolutelyfire-proof. There is no gas, odor nor burns hard coal or coke. The furnace of the Peerless is capableof holding from 20 lbs. to 25 lbs. of coal at atime, and from 40 lbs. to 75 lbs. (accordingto the amount of heat required) will sufficefor one car during a day of eighteen man can attend to the fires of from 50to 75 cars. A car has run ten miles in verycold weather with only one firing, that is,without replenishing. These he;;ters havebeen thoroughly tisted in Cincinnati, in Fig. I.—Zimmerman Peerless Heater. secured in place by nickel plated bands outsidethe recessed rings. Fig. 9 shows section of aguard that supports the wooden strips. A bell-shaped portable wire guard, for preserving theregister from passengers feet, and preventingsnow, ice or dirt from getting in contact withthe furnace or its heated parts, and also to keepladies dresses and skirts from coming in contactwith the register, completes the bill. The principle is that of a hot-air furnace, hav-ing all its advantages without its drawbacks. Inthis the air is in constant circulation, and there-fore always fresh; it comes in from underneaththe car, heated in its passage to any required Fig. 4.—Zimmerman Heater. Louis and in Chicago. One of them uill beexhibited at the forthcoming sireet railwayexhibition at Washington; and probably therewill be one fitted in a car. It can be fixed inany car with but very little preparation; thecutting of a hole in the floor, for the furnaceand its casing,
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