Combustor feeding arrangement
AssigneeWestinghouse Electric Corp.
InventorsJohn T. Healy, Joel W. Johnson
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Abstract
An arrangement for feeding material to the open end of a combustor including a vertical chute leading to a doorway to the combustor which is normally closed by a biased door, and a stepped ram reciprocating at the bottom of the chute for feeding material through the door and into the combustor.
Claims6
A feeding arrangement for a combustor having an open end for receiving combustible material comprising, in combination, a wall closing said open end of said combustor and defining a doorway, a generally vertical chute including said wall, leading to said doorway and having a lower floor aligned with the bottom of the doorway, a ram mounted for reciprocation over said lower floor and into and through said doorway, a door mounted to normally close said doorway and being movable to open the doorway when pushed by said ram and combustible material, means for biasing said door toward a closed position, and means for reciprocating said ram, said ram, door and biasing means cooperating to positively push material into and through said doorway by only reciprocating said ram.
A feeding arrangement for a combustor having an open end for receiving combustible material comprising, in combination, a wall closing said open end of said combustor and defining a doorway, a generally vertical chute including said wall, leading to said doorway and having a lower floor aligned with the bottom of the doorway, a ram mounted for reciprocation over said lower floor into and through said doorway, said ram being stepped and having a first face adjacent said floor and a second face above said first face and spaced from said doorway, the sides of the said ram being sloped so that the top surfaces of the ram are smaller than the ram base, and means for reciprocating said ram, said ram, door and biasing means cooperating to positively push material into and through said doorway by only operating said ram.
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