Feeding means for feeding solid fuel from a storage silo or equivalent into a solid fuel heating boiler
AssigneeSaastamoinen Oy
InventorsPasi Kylmanen, Pasi Takalo
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Abstract
The invention concerns an apparatus for feeding solid fuel from a storage silo or equivalent to a solid fuel-using heating boiler. The feeding apparatus comprises a piston, which has been disposed to carry out a reciprocating motion within a tube which through an aperture communicates with the solid fuel storage silo or equivalent, and which communicates by its other end with the heating boiler. With a view to accomplishing the feeding of the solid fuel with reliable certainty, before the piston, in the feeding apparatus of the invention there has been provided in the lower part of the storage silo or equivalent, a rotatably disposed vane.
Claims12
Feeding means for feeding solid fuel from a storage silo to a heating boiler, said feeding means comprising
- piston means adapted to move reciprocatingly,
- tube means communicating with the heating boiler and in which said piston means is disposed,
- aperture means communicating said tube means with the storage silo,
- vane means rotatably disposed within a lower portion of the storage silo to effectuate delivery of the solid fuel from the storage silo to the boiler through said tube means, said vane means comprising a substantially rigid portion, and a turnable portion, and
- hinge means for interconnecting said turnable and substantially rigid portions of said vane means, said hinge means comprising a hinge axle substantially parallel with a longitudinal axis of said substantially rigid portion of said vane means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.