Recent cotton mill construction and engineering (1894)
Nasmith, Joseph · London : J. Heywood · leaf 159
— (1) Get your boilers designed for the work theyhave to do, and not made 7ft. Gin. by 30ft., or 8ft.by 28ft., as the case may be, because it is 148 the fashion to have boilers of these particulardimensions. (2) Dont stick to 6ft. grates if a shorter lengthis required to burn the coal at the rate… … Fig. 65. (4) Buy your coal dry and keep it dry. Weighthe ashes which come out of the furnaces as well asthe coal that goes into them. (5) Be most careful to stop up air leaks in thebrickwork and between the brickwork and theboiler. (6) Establish a gasometer for collecting gasesfrom the flues and…
Textile factories -- Design and construction · Cotton manufacture · Cotton machinery
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