All About Engines

Forfatter: Edward Cressy

År: 1918

Forlag: Cassell and Company, LTD

Sted: London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne

Sider: 352

UDK: 621 1

With a coloured Frontispiece, and 182 halftone Illustrations and Diagrams.

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_______ ________ _____ Raising Steam 63 tight joints, and the boiler may either be built in brick- work or be furnished with an iron casing for the grate. These boilers are very seldom seen in England, but they are common enough on sugar plantations and in other industries on the outskirts of civilisation. They are cheap, but neither economical nor very safe. A great deal of heat is lost from the sides and dry back, and scale tends to settle on the bottom of the shell over the fire. The metal at this point tends to become overheated, it ex- ________________ pands,and subjects I....... the boiler to strain. \ It does excellent y------------ work, and is safe enough in intelligent hands, but it is a boiler to avoid if you can afford a better one. A very early improvement, and one which is fairly com- mon to-day, is the Cornish, which is similar to the Lan- cashire boiler shown in Fig. z o a z 0 r u u 0) £ * 27. It consists of a large