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Show 1 SMOKE AND CINDER I CONVEYOR. 1 An annoyance of no small dimensions dimen-sions seems to be overcome by the device de-vice Illustrated, herewith, which has Just been patented by four Louisville (Ky ) Inventors The object Is to provide pro-vide a conductor which will receive (ho cinders and gases from the stack of a locomotive and discharge them at the rear end of the train, the purpose of tills device being to prevent tho smoke and cinders from coming In contact with the cars or passengers. A subordinate subor-dinate object Is to provide for the direct di-rect passage of the smoke when the engine Is nt a standstill, which Is accomplished ac-complished by plsclng a hinged cap directly over the verticil stack, with means for opening It from the cab of tho" cnglnt,. The conveyor ,1s otmed of a number of Individual sections placed horizontally on, top of the car, with mum for automatically Joining KEEPS THE CAIIS CLEAN, the sections together when tho cars are brought Into conjunction. Itecent experiments ex-periments have shown that a large percentage per-centage of the coal Is wasted In small particles, which are discharged through the stack with the smoke, and as this smoke conveyor would arrest a largo proporl'on of this wasto It might alio be advantageous from an economics! point of view as well as aiding In keeping the passengers free from travel trav-el stain and their eyes unaffected by cinders when they desire to look through the open windows. |