Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers .. (1905)
Swingle, C. F. [from old catalog], Horstmann, Henry Charles, 1858- [from old catalog], Tousley, Victor Hugo, 1875- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & co. · leaf 348
bybeing shoveled by hand into hoppers in front of andabove the grates, or, asis the case in most ofthe large plants usingthem, it is elevated bymachinery and depos-ited in chutes, throughwhich it is fed toeach boiler by gravity.Stokers of the chaingrate variety are usu-ally constructed so thatthey… … FIGURE 112. CAHALL VERTICAL BOILER WITH CHAIN GRATE STOKER ATTACHED and is slowly carriedThe ash drops fromthe grate as it passes over the sprocket wheel atthe rear. Fig. in shows a battery of Babcock and Wilcoxwater tube boilers fitted with chain grate stokers. The 838 ENGINEERING buckets for…
