Extended life grate bar
AssigneeDetroit Stoker Company
InventorsEugene D. Hamaker, David C. Reschly
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Abstract
An improved, long-life grate bar for use in the traveling grate bar mechanism of a solid-fuel-burning furnace apparatus and having hard wear pad inserts which are disposed within the end portions of the grate bar which ride along support rails. The wear pad inserts can be fabricated from a hard nickel-steel alloy material and can be integrally formed in the grate bar.
Claims3
A one-piece wear pad insert for use in a grate bar of a solid-fuel-burning furnace having a traveling grate bar mechanism to alleviate excessive wear in said grate bar, said wear pad insert having a generally trapezoidally-shaped body portion in vertical cross-section and a , conical-shaped stud portion, said body portion having a lower planar wear surface and drafted side walls, said side walls tapering outwardly from said wear surface.
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