Stoker (railway)
the term comes from the English verb " to stoke" who means " to feed a chaudière" and stoker without C is written well.
A Stoker is an automatic device of loading of the coal in the Foyer of a Locomotive to vapor.
It functions on the principle of a Archimedes' screw: a succession of actuated screws in an interdependent way, one horizontal in the hopper with coal of the tender and the others going from the threshold of the tender to the hearth of the engine, involve the coal screened with the request.
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