Metromelt

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They were first built in 1974 for the then Toronto Metro Roads and Works department to remove major snow accumulations from roads managed by Metro Toronto. Built by Trecan Combustion Limited[http://www.trecan.ca/en/ Trecan Combustion Limited] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616125328/http://www.trecan.ca/en/ |date=2012-06-16 }} of Hubley, Nova Scotia, the city operates a fleet of 5 machines (8 wheeled self driven (with driver cab) vehicles are stored at Toronto Works Ellesmere Yard in Scarborough) along with the 350-PD unpowered snowmelter trailer units by Trecan. Trecan Metromelt and snowmelters are used throughout Canada, the United States and Russia.{{Citation needed|date=February 2013}} Mobile self-propelled snowmelters were originally invented and patented in Canada,{{Cite web|url=http://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/830788/summary.html?type=number_search|title=Canadian Patent Database / Base de données sur les brevets canadiens|last=Office of Canadian Intellectual Property|first=|website=brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca|language=en|access-date=2018-05-07}}{{Cite web|url=http://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/1217521/summary.html?type=number_search|title=Canadian Patent Database / Base de données sur les brevets canadiens|last=Office Canadian Intellectual Property|first=|website=brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca|language=en|access-date=2018-05-07}} European Union{{Cite web|url=https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?FT=D&date=19880608&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP&CC=GB&NR=2184702A&KC=B|title=European Union patent |last=|first=|date=|website=worldwide.espacenet.com|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2018-05-07}} and the US{{Patent|US|patent|3619918}} by Albert Z Morin, the original inventor of the Jet Melt and likewise renowned and honored by Canada's highest innovation award for inventing the aerodynamic mudflap.{{Patent|US|patent|4660846}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.macleans.ca/economy/business/the-next-big-things/|title=The next big things - Macleans.ca|date=2011-10-11|work=Macleans.ca|access-date=2018-05-07|language=en-US}}

• Power plant: four-cylinder diesel engine
• Top Speed: {{convert|24|km/h|mph|abbr=on}}
• Length: {{convert|17.4|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
• Height: {{convert|3.9|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
• Width: {{convert|3.1|m|ftin|abbr=on}} wide
• Ground clearance: {{convert|27|cm|in|1|abbr=on}}
• Weight: {{convert|42.6|to|56|t|lk=on}}

The snow machine melts approximately {{convert|136|t}} of snow per hour using air/fuel combustion to heat water and mix it with snow in a melting tank. The melted snow continuously drains from the tank, as it overflows, out of the melter and into storm drains or sewers along the road. The machine is self-propelled and self-loading, and resembles a large truck-mounted furnace with a snow-gathering conveyor belt at the front end.

• Trecan Combustion{{cite web|url=http://www.trecan.com/|title=Trecan – Canadian designed and built snowmelters used worldwide|website=Trecan}}

• [http://www.toronto.ca/transportation/snow/torontomelt.htm Snow: The Toronto snow melting machine]
• [http://www.trecan.com/ Trecan Combustion, makers of the Metromelt]
• [https://www.facebook.com/VintageToronto/photos/pb.256041347799190.-2207520000.1476291730./1226588367411145/?type=3 Metromelt - Taken from Toronto Start 1975]

Category:Snow removal