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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 482

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nozzle on the shell. Under a neck or nozzle the water isheaped up (Fig. 373), and the greatest disengagement occursat that point, a condition favorable to priming. The dome isusually put at that point on the length of a boiler at whichexperience shows the disengagement to be most active, soas to… … Fig. 363 not only is the strength affected, but the cylindrical shelltends to flatten under the pressure, and tnis results in Jeakageat the dome-seam at the top. The shell is an unstiffenedcurved stay where the hole is cut, and the double thicknessof the lap of the dome-joint does not replace the…

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