Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 189
s. The installation consisted ofa battery of four horizontal two-drum water tube boilers. One drumruptured, followed shortly by the rupture of a drum in another boiler.Examination of all of the boilers then revealed that five of the eightdrums were badly bulged, as shown in the photographs. It was… … Fig. I. lowest safe water level, as customarily is the case, but instead wascarried above and suspended entirely clear of the drums, leaving a spaceof about 12 inches between the tops of the drums and the arch. Thehot gases direct from the fire went upward among the tubes of thefirst pass and then…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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