Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 846
slow, being from seven to ten strokes per minute,according to the grade of thecoal. This alternate starting and checking motion being con-tinuous, keeps the fire constantly stirred and broken up from underneath, and finally landsthe cinder and ash on the dumping grate below. By releasing the… … Fig. 2.—The Roney mechanical stoker. Fic. 3. be dumped separately. The operation of the stoker, therefore, consists of a slow but con-tinuous feed, a constant stirring of the fire, and an automatic rejection of the cinder, allperformed without opening the fire doors. All motion is taken from one…
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