Immediately after tile a(0om'nment of' the February meeting of' this INSTITUTE~ the drum having fiat east iron he'tds, w'ls tested by hydrostatic pressure, for the purl)ose of" ascertaining the strength of such heads. The dimensions of the drum were four thet in length bv ihlrty-six inehes in diame
Cast iron in steam boilers
โ Scribed by S.Lloyd Wiegand
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1884
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 179 KB
- Volume
- 117
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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Considerable interest having beeu expressed in the matter of the bursting of a flat boiler tread, parts of" which were shown at the January meeting of the Franklin Institute, and the limited supply of water having'delayed the oppormnlty of testing the riveted iron drum with flat east iron heads, as
~We ]rove found the temperature of the gases of combustion when leaving the heater to be somethnes below 212 ยฐ lqthrenheit.
This is a very old subject, having been worked upon by many eminent chemists on both sides of the Atlantic, and from many different views. Some have devoted their ideas to the prevention of scale formation inside the boiler, under which heading you will find in literature and on the market at the p