Identifier: streetrailwayrev15amer (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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syndicate and are to be electrified. Other concessions h.ivebeen asked for the construction of additional lines to the suburbs. Dfx. is. nog.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW 897 A Modern Sand Drying Plant. A modern sand drying plant for ihc Public Service Corporationof New Jersey is shown in the accompanying illustration. Thisequipment was furnished by llie American Process Co., New YorkCity. The sand for drying is bronglit to the dock by lighters and is unloaded into llic storage bin,by a derrick. A screw conveyor then Boyce, 302 Broadway, New York City, is installinf; in the parkswhich he designs and equips. The rollcr-Cfjaster is too well known to need an extended de-scription here, and the illustration presents this particular type veryclearly. The sensations which are iffordcd by a roller coaster tripare exhilarating without producing any severe or harmful shocksto the passenger. The smooth, rapid movement and the suddendownwarri and upward swoops arc enjoyable alike to the old .ind DTI n
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ELEVATION OF SAND DRIF.R FOK PUnLIC SERVICE CORPORATION. olevaUs till sand to the tipper end of a drier of the direct heatrotary blast type. This drier consists of a cylindrical steel shellon the interior of which are fastened narrow longitudinal shelves,the cylinder and its contents being rotated slowly by means of gear-ing or cliain belting. The drier cylinder is placed in a slightly in-clined position, the wet material and furnace gases entering the shellat the highest end. As the wet sand falls to the bottom of thedrier, it is caught on tlie shelves, carried around to almost thehighest point of rotation and is then showered through the furnacegases. The direction of the draft is toward the lower end of thedrier and the sand is gradually worked forward until it is dis-charged from the lower end in a dried condition. The sand andfurnace gases thus travel in the same direction, the wettest materialand highest temperature being in contact, a condition essential toliigh fuel economy. A

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