Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 72
n ■ importance of locating feed-pipes cor-rectly, and to the Btraina that arc produced in boilers by the discharge of feed water inplaces where it will chill the shell. The contraction of iron from such a cause ispractically irresistible, and the result is that joints arc strained and boilers are… … Fig. 1.— Showing the Location of the Feed Pipe. Iobservation, and. thinking the matter might interest readers of The Locomotive, wemafic some experiments with this boiler, both before and after changing the feed-pipe.The boiler in question is of the locomotive type. 24 3 long, and with a 66-inch…
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