Lighthouse Inspection Reports Database

Guard Island Light Station - 1932

Fog Signal Equipment

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Trumpet:

 

Trumpet length:

 

Trumpet diameter:

 

Trumpet material:

Daboll Resonator

 

3' vertical

 

10"

 

Steel

Trumpet Signal

Number:

 

Diameter:

 

Height:

 

Capacity Cubic Feet:

 

Pressure in each:

 

Make of Reducing Valve:

 

Remarks:

2

 

4' 0"

 

8' 0'

 

100

 

 

 

None

 

Dia. of exhaust pipe 3", dia. discharge pipe 2", dia. of pipe between receivers, 2.5"

Air Receiver

Fog Signal Kind:

 

Internal Combustion Kind:

 

Internal Comb Manufacturer:

 

Internal Comb Date:

 

Internal Comb Size:

 

Internal Comb Horsepower:

 

Internal Comb Fuel:

 

Internal Comb Starter:

 

Internal Comb compressor:

 

Compressor Maker:

 

Compressor seat:

 

Compressor Machinery:

 

Compressor diameter:

 

Compressor stroke:

 

Compressor rpms:

 

Character of air inlet:

 

Kind of Unloader:

 

Diam of Delivery Pipe:

 

 

Mietz Kerosene Oil engines

 

Charter Gas Engine Co.l, Sterling, IL

 

1923

 

7" x 8"

 

8 HP

 

Kiesel Oil

 

On kerosene by heating torch.

 

Pennsylvania

 

Unknown

 

Separate with chain driven.

 

 

 

7"

 

5"

 

266 rpms

 

3"

 

Air control

 

2"

Internal Combustion Signal