. Electric railway journal . CYLINDER OPERATING FUEL RAM AND INTERIOR OF FURNACE fire and dissipating it to the incoming air. The loweredges of the stokers are attached to an angle iron whichextends across the entire furnace, thus preventing thestoker movement from bulging the boiler front, and al-lowing for expansion and contraction. The fire doorsare equipped with cast-in-place fire-brick linings, toavoid the trouble sometimes caused by brick becomingloose and falling out. The one-ended cylinders with steam ports cast in thewalls are employed to permit the use of short and sim-ple steam conn
. Electric railway journal . CYLINDER OPERATING FUEL RAM AND INTERIOR OF FURNACE fire and dissipating it to the incoming air. The loweredges of the stokers are attached to an angle iron whichextends across the entire furnace, thus preventing thestoker movement from bulging the boiler front, and al-lowing for expansion and contraction. The fire doorsare equipped with cast-in-place fire-brick linings, toavoid the trouble sometimes caused by brick becomingloose and falling out. The one-ended cylinders with steam ports cast in thewalls are employed to permit the use of short and sim-ple steam connections. By removing the cap screwsfastening the cylinder to the ram case the entire coal-feeding portion of the stoker may be dismantled. Uponthe cylinder being removed, the piston, stuffing box,. PERSPECTIVE SECTION RETORT AND ASH REMOVER gland, piston rod and ram can be withdrawn and thestoker exposed for inspection or renewals. All valvebodies are interchangeable. For small installations the Moloch stoker is made inthe manually-cleaned type. With this or the self-clean-ing type as many stokers can be combined under oneboiler as the space and conditions require. Their in-stallation is not confined to new boiler equipment, as nospecial brick work or fire arches are required. Where abasement exists for the storage of refuse or ash, the de-sign can be readily altered to receive the stokers. Where 986 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLVIII, No. 19 a basement or ash tunnel does not exist, a pit directlyunder the boiler furnace can usually be arranged. Onaccount of the fuel bed being horizontal the boiler doesnot have to be set as high as with an inclined fuel possible, however, a relatively high setting isrecommended by the manufacturer. This stoker is manufactured by the
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