Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers .. . FIGURE 115. side to side to cover the entire length of the coal is shoveled or fed by carrier into thecoal magazines, one on each side, as shown in thecut If the furnace is placed directly under the boilerit necessitates putting these coal magazines within theside walls, but as the Murphy furnace is usually con- 342 ENGINEERING structed at the present day as an outside furnace, thecoal magazines are independent of the boiler bottom of each magazine is used as a coking. plate, a


Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers .. . FIGURE 115. side to side to cover the entire length of the coal is shoveled or fed by carrier into thecoal magazines, one on each side, as shown in thecut If the furnace is placed directly under the boilerit necessitates putting these coal magazines within theside walls, but as the Murphy furnace is usually con- 342 ENGINEERING structed at the present day as an outside furnace, thecoal magazines are independent of the boiler bottom of each magazine is used as a coking. plate, against which the upper ends of the inclinedgrates rest. On the central part of this plate is aninverted open box. This is termed the stoker box, MECHANICAL STOKERS 343 and it is moved back and forth across the face of thecoking plate by means of a shaft with pinions thatmesh into racks under each end of the box. By means


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