Practical instructor and reference book for locomotive firemen and engineers: a practical treatise .. (1916)
Lockhart, Charles F. (Charles Fulton), b. 1872 · New York, The Norman W. Henley publishing co. · leaf 114
as shown in Fig. 32, with one endclosed and curved to about the shape of a horse-shoe. A THE STEAM GAUGE 111 pipe is connected to this curved tube. At the bottom ofthe gauge several coils are placed in this pipe and thenconnected to the boiler somewhere above the water line. 326. The steam in this… … Fig. 32.—Steam Gauge, Sectional View. gauge pointer by means of small levers. When the pres-sure in the curved tube causes it to expand, the tubestraightens out, moving the pointer around in proportionto the pressure on the boiler. 327. If a leak should occur in the feed pipe drainingthe water out…
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