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The Locomotive (1867)

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 355

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team Drum, on a Water Tube Boiler. M. T. Glenn, Inspector.While it is not unusual to find bulges upon the tubes of water tube boilersand upon the plating of the fire tube variety, we do not as a rule, look fortrouble from this source on the shell plates of the steam drums of thehorizontal type of… … Location of Bulge on the Steam Drum. As is shown in the sketch these boilers contained superheater elements in aduct in the brickwork of the setting and the location of the superheater was suchthat only an eight inch brick wall separated its flue from the steam drum abovevthe water line. It is…

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