Handbook of mechanical and electrical cost data, giving shipping weights, capacities, outputs, and net prices of machines and apparatus, and detailed costs of installation, maintenance, depreciation and operation, together with many principles and data relating to engineering economics (1918)
Gillette, Halbert Powers, 1869-, Dana, Richard Turner, 1876-1928, joint author · New York, McGraw-Hill · leaf 384
12 ofthese boilers are in use at one time, the other two being heldfor cleaning and repairs. In this boiler room the coal is fedfrom an overhead bin to the Roney stokers and a conveyor sys-tem handles both the coal and the ashes. The run-of-mine softcoal is unloaded into a track hoi)per underneath… … Fig, 16. Section through boiler house showing conveyor system. 362 MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL COST DATA the hoppers and into the lower run of the carrier, which elevatesthem to an ash pocket from which they are discharged into rail-road cars. Fig. 16 shows a cross-section of the boiler room…
