Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise .. (1916)
Swingle, Calvin F. (Calvin Franklin), b. 1846 · Chicago, F.J. Drake & company · leaf 118
sheet by running a long tap throughboth plates. The steel stay bolt, is then screwed throughthe plates and allowed to project enough at each end topermit of its being riveted cold. Stay bolts are liable tobe broken by the unequal expansion of the fire box andouter shell, and a small hole should be… … Fig. 41 2U Steam Engineering at once. The problem of properly staying the flat crownsheet of a horizontal fire box boiler, especially a locomotiveboiler, is a very difficult one and has taxed the inventivegenius of some of the most eminent engineers. Before the invention of the Belpaire boiler,…
