Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 137
which may be snapped in twolike pipe-stems by striking them a sharp blow across the corner of an anvil. This is thecommon way of testing such work in some shops. Fig. 2 shows a very common method of bracing the heads of tubular boilers. Twopieces of L iron are riveted horizontally across the head… … 1^ 1 ^^ r\ < ) \I ] Fig. 3. the form of the head, which is single instead of double. This makes a fairly good forntof brace if it is properly constructed, but as a general rule it is not. If the braces wereswung horizontally to the shell of the boiler, they would need only a comparativelyslight…
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