Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 131
to that class of apparatus. n8 THE LOCOMOTIVE October, Shape of Head Blamed for Failure of New Claves THE recent failure of a comparatively new copper autoclave in aplant at Mobile, Alabama, serves to illustrate how quickly fatiguecracks can develop in heads of pressure vessels when the designis… … it. » developed cracks from the inside surface at the corner of the headflange that weakened it to a dangerous degree. Fortunately, the rupture occurred while the clave was cold andunder hydrostatic pressure. Had the head failed at a time when thecooking process was going on there might have been…
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