Identifier: railwaymastermec33newy (find matches)
Title: Railway master mechanic (microform)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroads Railroads
Publisher: New York : (Simmons-Boardman Pub. Corp.)
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by hand, or by means of clam shellbucket and locomotive crane on adjacent track. The stor-age capacity in the overhead bunkers is 320 tons, from whichpoint coal flows by gravity directly into the hoppers on thestokers. These bunkers are of a new and novel design patented bythe Brown Hoisting Machinery Co. of Cleveland, Ohio. Theyare of the suspension type, the material, which is of steeland concrete, hanging from the supports in the shape of aparabola; thus placing the materials so as to throw prac-tically all the steel in tension, and in this way take advantageof the maximum strength of the material. The shape of thebunker is particularly advantageous from the standpoint ofdischarging all the material in the bunker through the out-lets by gravity; that is, there are no pockets from which thecoal cannot easily flow. There is also provided beneath the main bunkers emerg-ency coal pockets, in which can be stored an additional 400tons of coal, which can be handled almost as economically
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Interior View of Storehouse (Note the Shelving). ture of the steam an additional 100 degrees. Each boiler isprovided with a Green traveling link grate. These grates,or stokers, are operated by lineshaft in the basement, whichis driven in turn by duplicate auxiliary engines. A systemof narrow gauge tracks and turntables, an electric elevator,and manually-operated bottom dump coal and ash cars, havebeen installed. This equipment is so arranged that thecoal and ashes can be handled by one man at a low expense.There is little about the equipment to deteriorate, as allstorage pockets are of reinforced concrete. All coal andashes are handled by gravity, with the exception of themovement over the electric elevator, which raises both coaland ash cars to the overhead bunkers. The storage capacityfor coal in the main bunkers is 350 tons. Coal may be un-loaded into these bunkers directly from bottom or sidedump standard coal cars, or may be unloaded from gondola to the boilers as in the regular

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