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SMOKE CONSUMING LOCOMOTIVE |
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U.S. Patent Number: 531,555 Patented Dec. 25, 1894 to FRANK C. MCNALLY
Colitz Catchphrase: “Over the mountains and through the woods, to grandmother's house we go, for Thanksgiving, on an ecology friendly train, from more than a century ago.“ |
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ABSTRACT This invention relates to locomotives which l consume their own products of combustion, (called sometimes smokeless locomotives,) of that type which are provided with a revolving fan-blower for creating a forced draft and returning the smoke and cinders from the smoke-box to the lire-box, instead of per'- mitting them to escape into the open air; and my improvement consists in the novel construction and combination of the fire-box, the smoke or-cinderbox, the revolving fan, theengine exhaust, the smoke-stack, and a valve for regulating the draft through the same. |
