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 352
isimparted to the grates by means of cranks and linksoperated from an overhead shaft; see Fig. 117, Thesecranks are set alternately at 90° with each other, thusgiving a forward movement to one-half of the gratebars while at thesame time theother half ismoving back-ward. In thismanner the fuelis… … FIGURE 115. side to side to cover the entire length of the grate.The coal is shoveled or fed by carrier into thecoal magazines, one on each side, as shown in thecut If the furnace is placed directly under the boilerit necessitates putting these coal magazines within theside walls, but as the Murphy…
