A NEW SMOKE-CONSUMER.
A trow Bmoke«consumer is being applied to locomotives of the Illinois Central Bailroad. A verticle water-table divides the fire-box or furnace into two compartments, one of which is charged with fresh coal, while the other contains freely-burning coal. The compartment containing the fresh coal is closed at the top by a damper which confines the gases, and it is regulated by the fireman in the engine-cab. The smoke and gas arising from the fresh coal as it becomes heated pass through a small opening over the water-tables and above the fire into the next compartment, where they are entirely consumed. The operation is then reversed by the other compartment of the fire-box being charged with fresh coal, in consequence of which the smoke and gases pass into the compartment opposite, where tne fire has reached a high temperature. There is in the fire-box a firebrick arch, which becomes highly heated, and preserves a uniform temperature in the furnace, and assists in consuming the gases from the fresh coal.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 36, 10 January 1884, Page 3
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171A NEW SMOKE-CONSUMER. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 36, 10 January 1884, Page 3
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