Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise on the care and management of steam engines, boilers and electric machinery (1922)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · 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 ICc 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,…
