Heating and Lighting Railway Passenger Cars

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Excerpt from Heating and Lighting Railway Passenger Cars: Describes in Detail the Various Systems Used to Heat Passenger Coaches, Baker Systems, Gold's Storage System, Hot Water Steam and Electric Systems of Heating, Lighting Passenger Coaches: Acetylene Gas, Safety Storage Acetylene, Pintsch Gas, ElectricityThere is a fire-safe consisting of an outside shell or casing made of a ¿exible grade of steel, without joint or seam. See Figure 4. D is the fire-safe, the depth of the casing or shell is indicated from a to a. On the inside of the shell are Sheets of asbestos and next to these layers of asbestos is a sheet-iron casing C, enclos ing the coil A, the space between casing C and coil A serves as an air space for the hot gases from the fire, and the space inside the coil A serves as a fire chamber. The fire is accordingly within four casings: (1) A water casing consisting of the closely wound coil A filled with water, (2) a casing of sheet-iron, (3) a casing of asbestos layers, and (4) an outer casing of steel plate.The small holes in the draft, or ash pit, door K are the only open means of communication between the fire and the outer air, therefore, should the heater have the smoke-¿ue base G moved in a wreck, the only place through which fire could escape would: be through the small holes in the top of E, and as these holes are so small there would be no danger of hot coals escaping.The smoke screen N is a cone shape casting, as shown in Figure 4 for feeding the coal in at the front, the Opening being just behind the feed-door. The coal goes down through the bottom of the casting, thence through the coal feed-chute 0 into the fire. Safety plate F, which is controlled by the hand lever h (the latter being held in place by the spring i), closes the hole in the bottom of the screen N, the top of which has small holes as shown.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.