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The mechanical engineering of power plants (1906)

Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853-1918 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; London, Chapman & Hall, limited · leaf 439

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w joints in the shell as possible, and yetthe boiler must have a practical length. The least numberof joints is reached in the arrangement shown for a shellboiler in Fig. 321, where the shell part is one long platejointed lengthwise. The size of such boiler is limited by the 384 MECHANICAL… … jointing such rings or zones by one, two, or more ring seams.In very large diameters, such as are usual in marine boilers,the rings themselves will each be made up of two or more THE STEAM-BOILER. GENERAL CONSTRUCTION. 385 segments, jointed by longitudinal joints. In the ordinaryshell of stationary…

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