Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 21
e night to furnish stean- i iting the mill, he banked the fire on half the grate surface undei ^.:h boiler and arranged dampers toby-pass the flue gases around the economizer. In the morning the fireman broke the bank, opened the damper,and switched the flue gases back through the economizer.… … and there was no chance for a circulation of water through it, thehot flue gases started to generate steam which overheated the metaland probably caused serious expansion stresses at the joints betweenthe tubes and the upper header. The explosion occurred about halfan hour after the fires were…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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