Forfatter: A.-M.Inst.C E., George Frederick Zimmer
År: 1916
Forlag: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Sted: London
Sider: 752
UDK: 621.87 Zim, 621.86 Zim
Being a Treatise on the Handling and Storing of Material such as Grain, Coal, Ore, Timber, Etc., by Automatic or Semi-Automatic Machinery, together with the Various Accessories used in the Manipulation of such Plant
COAL. COKE, AND ASH HANDLING PLANTS
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gravity instead of shovelling the coal up from the floor when stoking—is too obvious to
require further comment. When once a week’s supply is in suspension above the boilers
or retorts no interruptions, owing to accidents to the conveying or elevating machinery,
can occur, and there is time to repair breakdowns.
Fig. 882. Suspended Coal Bunker in Boiler-House.
The Handling of Ashes and Clinkers.—This is a far more difficult problem
than that of moving the coal, owing to the abrasive nature of ashes and clinkers. They
may also be very hot or dripping wet. Their cutting nature causes excessive wear on
machinery of any type which may be employed for moving them, and if hot they are the
cause of distortion of such parts of the machines which are not of cast iron, in addition