and heated air proceeding from the burning fuelarising from the grate, and rushing towards the back of the fur-nace, passes over the Jire-bridge e, and is carried through theflue F which passes under the boiler. This flue (the cross sectionof which is shown in fig. 9, by the dark shade put under… … masonry forming the sides of the flue. The bottom of the boilerbeing concave, the flame and heated air as they pass along theflue rise to the upper part by the effects of their high temperature,and lick the bottom of the boiler from the fire-bridge at E to the.further end g. At g the flue rises to…
Steam-engines · Steam-navigation · Locomotives
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