Identifier: streetrailwayrev14amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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the labor of caringfor boilers is greatly increased. All hoppers are sealed from airdrafts by valves and back draft of air is kept from reaching theash pit and thence from going into furnace along face of bridgewall and through the slot between grate and wall liy a drop damperhung from the grate frame in such a position as lo force all airup through the bed of coal. Coal siftings from the upper boilers arc discharged into the lowerhoppers and fed direct into the lower stokers, and those from thelower boilers chute directly to the conveyor. All ashes fall direct to the conveyor through cast iron spoutsfrom the ash storage hoppers under each boiler, which latter havea capacity sufficient for one-half days run on the upper floor andone days on the lower. Ashes are not allowed to collect in thespouts or to become wet. They are held back by cut-offs attachedto inspection lids near the mouth of each hopper, and these cut-offs must be raised at each cleaning out time by manual effort at the
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PIO. 21—PLAN (II- riiiNO. lid, when .-ilsu the opcralur nui^l assist ihe How of ashes by pokingif necessary, and when once in the cluitus. further progress is con-trolled by the valve at the conveyor. .Ml ashes are then delivered by the conveyor to the ash storagelank ill Ihe top of Ihe tower, which has a capacity of ijo tons, andis brick lined, having a coiiic.il hopper bolloin with a spoul andvalve allaclied, and suspended from which is a hinged swinging spoutin two seiiions, one for llie U;)per track, and oiif for Ihe lowertrack, enabling the operator to lill cars on Iilhcr Ir.ick or wagonson the lower yard level. 384 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol.. XIV. No. 6. Boiler Feeding System. Ai already nieiuloncd, the water of condensation is returned tothe hot well situated in the lioilcr room basement door. The lossof water is made np hy a j-in. city water connection controlleilliy a float operated valve. The heater pumps force this water totwo 5,ooo-h. p. Star vacuum heaters, where it i

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