The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-05-08
a Description Of Labor
Saving Plant Installed
to Supply Locomo olives
With Fuel and Sand.

On May 10 It is expected that the
lew coaling tipple of the w. & L. e.
railroad In the yards on East Ninth
street will be completed and placed in
operation. 1t is one OF the greatest
labor and time savers ever installed
Ia Canton by the railroad. aAt pres-
ent the engines are coaled by hand. a
number of workmen being employed
In shoveling the fuel from elevated
coal cars into the engine tender. When
tho new tipple is in operation there
will he no delay in coaling an engine.
Patented dumping coal cars are run
into the plant on an elevated track.
The coal Is dumped into q pocket and
drops from this into lower one. An
endless chain, to which is attached
large buckets runs from one corner OF
the building to the. opposite corner
and thence upward. In it's path it
passes through the coal pocket. filling
the buckets with the fuel, which is
structure, 60 feet in height. ami
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outlet of this hopper is protected by
gate which is opened when an engine
is to be coaled. This chute is extended
to permit the passing of the coal into
the tender without any loss.
DESCRIPTION OF PLANT.
On each side of the building is a
track upon which the engines are To
be run to be coaled, The coal pit is
60 regulated that part of the supply
can be dumped into an engine on one
track while another engine on the op-
posite side of the building can also
be supplied. This is managed by hav-
ing two chutes, one on each side.
This large hopper will hold rs tons
of coal and so tons can be carried from
the bwer. to the upper floor in an
hour.
In the east wing Of the cooling plant
is an endless chain with small buckets
attached for the carrying Of sand TO
the large sand tanks on the upper
floor This sand is carried to the top
Of the east wing in these buckets AMI
dumped on a belt conyeyor which car
ries it to the other side of the build
ing and dumps 1t into one of the two
large iron sand tanks, 5 feet in diam
eter and 6 feet high. There is one
tank on each, side of the
building to enable the filling of the
sand boxes of two locomotives at one
time. From these sand boxes extend
movable spouts which are run into the
engine.
ASH PITS AN IMPROVEMENT
w. c. Pocklington, OF Evanston, H..
hos cbarpe of tho uOrk for the ink
Belt Machinery company, Of Chicago.
Work on the plant was commenced
last fall and it was expected that it
would he completed before this time.
The ash pits, work on which was
started at the same time, are now in
operation. This is a great improve
ment and another time saver. For
merly the engines were run on a
track slightly elevated and the ashes
dumped along the side. This was
then shoveled into cars standing sew
cral feet higher than the workmen,
making the labor tedious 1t was diff
fcult for man to crawl under the
engine to clean out the ash pit.
By making new ash pits on an i'm
proved plan the engines are now run
on to track which is supported on
pteel girders about six feet above the
level of the pit. This enables man
to stand upright while cleaning the
ash box. The ashes are raked out aud
fall Oh brick floor which stands on
a level with the tops of dumping cars
OH a depressed track. The ashes are
then shoveled into these dumping cars
and hauled away.