Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise .. (1916)
Swingle, Calvin F. (Calvin Franklin), b. 1846 · Chicago, F.J. Drake & company · leaf 215
supplied to mechanical stokers, either by be-ing shoveled by hand into hoppers in front of, and abovethe grates, or, as is the case in most of the large plantsusing them, it is elevated by machinery and deposited inchutes, through which it is fed to each boiler by gravity.Stokers of the chain grate… … yfcA Pit. Fig. 79playford stoker level of the grate, and is.slowly carried along towards therear end. The ash drops from the grate as it passes overthe sprocket wheel at the rear. Fig. 76 shows a battery of Babcock & Wilcox water-tubeboilers fitted with chain grate stokers. The buckets…
