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Vestry of Rotherhithe.
Reports of Destructor Committee.
3rd July,1896.
Your Committee have to report that they have visited and inspected the following
Destructors:-
Liverpool (Charter Street)
This consists of two distinct sets of 12 furnaces of the "Fryer" type, in parallel, with
together, to that each has its own duty to perform independently. but all pass their products of
has a feeding hopper for charging it with refuse, and a furnace door for the withdrawal of
clinker. One set is charged by manual labour, i.e., all the refuse it tipped from the carts on to
the top the farnaces and is put into them by men with rakes, shovels and feeding irons
The other set is fitted with Boulnois & Brodie's Patent Storring and Charging Apparatus,
by which the refuse is tipped from the carts into the storage tanks, and is dropped from the
tanks into the furnaces without being handled by the men; by this method it is claimed that a
saving is effected for labour alone of fourpence per ton on every ton of refuse consumed, the
relative pricegiving being— hand charging. 1s per ton; mechanical charging, 8d. per ton.
Each cell consumes about 8 tons per day, the residue amounting to about 33 per cent
The chimney is 170 feet high, and the heat from the furnaccs is oused for raisaing steam, the
boiler bring placed in the bye-pass flue Abut 30 indicated horse-power is developed, and it is
??? for lighting the wharf by electricity, clinker crusher, mortar pan, and for rocking the
LIVERPOOL (TOXTETH PARK.)
This ??? is of modern contraction, having been at work only about one year
It ??? of six cells of the “Fryer" type as described above, fitted with ??? &
??? Changing ??? and Henoderson's Patent Rocking Bars, It is ??? to the
??? and depts of the district and house are being erected upon all sides. The quantity of
??? from this ??? is at presrent limited, and the cells are only ??? about 7 tons of
per day, The building are all of a very ??? character. the chimney being 180 ???
high and the waste ??? beat is ??? for ??? steam for ??? light ??? and for corn