Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 482
ooling. I92S-] THE LOCOMO T I V I- 207 An Autogenously Welded Tank Failure at New Orleans. AX autogenously welded tank exploded March 21, [925, at theplant of the Maltose Laboratories, Inc., New Orleans, La., kill-ing five men and seriously injuring three. The tank was used asa malt mixer in… … Fig. 1. The vessel was 71 inches in diameter by 10 ft. long and hadcone-shaped heads. The material of both shell and heads was l/\ inchtank steel. A 2 inch shaft ran through the heads of the tank andcarried wooden paddles for the mixing operation, the shaft beingdriven by an electric motor. A 2^2…
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