Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 6
to hole, unless the rupture occurs from simple over-pressure, in asound boiler. The formation of cracks of this kind is by no means uncommon, and inthe course of thirty years of experience, with the number of boilers under our chargesteadily increasing, until it is now over 62,000, we have had… … Fig. 2. — A Hidden Crack Under the Outer Edge op the Rivet Heads. In Figs. 4 and 5 they extended entirely through the plate, and in Fig. 6 the platewas so nearly perforated that it was easily bent back by hand into the shape that isshown. All of these fractures were in that part of the outer plate…
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