The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-23
Breaker.

ELEPHANTS main support" as the
breaker which was used to prepare for
market the coal mined at Olyphant
shaft, No. 2, has come to be called,
when reference is made to 1t from an
employment standpoint, Is again in
operation. Wednesday morning last
under the direction of Division Super
intendent J. l.. Atherton and Outside
Foreman John Mooney. the machinery
was started and coal Is being prepared.
The breaker put into operation Is
owned and operated by the Della
ware and Hudson company but Is not,
however, the same one which was first
used to take coal from Olyphant shaft
No. 2. 1t is in fact, the third of its
kind and in keeping with the strides
of modern improvements, is one of the
nest equipped structures of the kind in
the coal regions. Moreover, there are
one or two features which are not
found in any other breaker hereabouts.
Throughout the whole building are
little ideas incorporated by the men
employed by the company which of
course can not be found elsewhere.
Much credit is due the several men in
charge as a consequence.
The new breaker stands on 4 large
plot of ground directly opposite the
site of its predecessor, and across the
river. 1t is thus about half a mile
from the shaft. More storage and
track room Is thus gained. 1t is 120
feet wide by 130 long over all AMI
the coal is brought to it by narrow
gauge railway running from the shaft
over the river. The coal is carried up
into the head house by means of an
elevator, one of the distinctive fea-
lures.
CARRIED BY CONVEYORS.
The. coal is dumped from the cars by
an automatic tipple into large hop
er-shaped bin. The conveyor runs be-
meath the mouth of this bin and car
ries the coal a distance of about 200
feet up into the breaker. Here 1t goes
directly onto the bars and Is fed into
the breaker. The conveyor, or ele-
vator, is a Monobar style but double
linked in this case, owing to the lift
and capacity required. That the
breaker has capacity of 1000 tons
per ten-hour day. and the elevator can
furnish more coal than that, gives one
an idea of its work.
The feature Of this conveyor is that
the breaker is fed steadily and thor
| oughly and more quickly. There are
| two such elevators in operation at the
| Boston, at Plymouth, and Baltimore
| No. 2, at Wilkes-Barre, both owned
and operated by the Delaware and
| Hudson company. Neither are, how.
| ever, on the same scale or capacity as
| the one at Olyphant.
Proceeding from the bars where the
| coal is elevated and dumped on, one
| comes to another special feature. All
| of the small coal runs through inter
sices into a pocket and thus goes direc,
to the mud" screens. In the old wa,
| everything big and small went int
the rolls and very often the rolls be-
came clogged. Now they are practic
ally free to work only large sizes.
| LOADING POCKETS.
All down through the body of tn
breaker. here and there, are such ideas
After passing all the route of the Goa
in course Of preparation, one comes t.
the loading pockets. Here is an ar
rangement which in all probability ex
lists in no other breaker today. TIL
loading pockets are double and ther
are two sets of loading tracks. L
other words, cars can be loaded fror
the front and back of any pocket a
the same time.
The breakers capacity is 1000 ton
daily, 10 hours to the day. 1t prepare
all sizes, from the bird s-eye to lump o
big coal. It's cost will be about $50, 90
or more. The other breaker employ
several hundred hands, but it is posi-
BILE that fewer will be employed a
the new one, though its capacity is SO
tons greater.
A short review of "Olyphant
breaker and the many incidents con
nected might not be amiss here. Earl
in the spring of 1897, Olyphant, Nc
breaker, as it was called. was tor