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The Locomotive (1867)

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 171

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off of the first roll, andspring back so as to be flatter than the desired radiuswould require. If the plate were solid, and had norivet holes in it, the resulting cylinder would look some-thing like Fig. 4, one end of the shell standing offfrom the general curve, as represented. If, on the… … Fig. 3. — A Plate Al-most Perforated bya Lap-Joint Crack. happen that the plate takes a sharper bend along one or more of these rows ofholes, owing to the weakening of the plate at these points, from the removal ofthe material in forming the holes. The ends of the plate, where they come to-gether,…

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