Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians with questions and answers; a practical non-technical treatise .. (1913)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 220
act a series of hollowtrunks with their front ends open. When in operation a Mechanical StoJcers 207 steam blast is admitted to each of the several trunk gratebars through the small branch pipes^ and this blast inducesan air current of more or less pressure^ which finds anoutlet through the narrow… … Fig. 83the mukphy automatic furnace overhead shaft; see Fig. 82. These cranks are set alternate-ly at 90° with each other, thus giving a forward movementto one-half of the grate bars, while at the same time theother half is moving backward. In this manner the fuelis kept slowly moving down the…