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Wacky Patent of the Month

 

SMOKE CONSUMING LOCOMOTIVE
November 2013 Wacky Patent

 

U.S. Patent Number: 531,555

Patented Dec. 25, 1894

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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.

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