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Sentinel Island Light Station - 1932

Fog Signal Equipment

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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:

 

 

Charter-Mietz Vertical Oil Engine & Compressor.

 

Charter Gas Engine Co., Sterling, Ill.

 

July 1926

 

7" x 8"

 

9

 

Diesel oil

 

By heating iron ball using blow-torch

 

Vertical; direct connected single acting.

 

Charter Gas Eng. Co.

 

Same bed, direct connected.

 

 

 

7"

 

8"

 

400 rpm

 

Disc 4.5"

 

Spring compression

 

2"

Internal Combustion Signal

Number:

 

Diameter:

 

Height:

 

Capacity Cubic Feet:

 

Pressure in each:

 

Make of Reducing Valve:

 

Remarks:

2

 

3.5 feet

 

7' 10"

 

76 feet

 

30 lbs.

 

None.

Air Receiver

Daboll:

 

Daboll reed:

 

Daboll length:

 

Daboll breadth:

 

Daboll base thickness:  

 

Daboll tip thickness:

3rd class

 

 

 

8-7/16"

 

2.25"

 

3/8"

 

3/16"

Daboll Signal