. American engineer and railroad journal . Fio. 6.—THE FLETCHER BOILER, on Boilers, p. 85. Fletcher used a vertical fire box boiler (fig. 6) with horizon-tal cone-shaped tubes radiating from the sides of the fire-boxtoward the centre. This is probably the least objectionableform of the closed-end tube. i6o THE AMERICAN ENGINEER [April, i8gs-. THE li. T. BABBITT BOILER. Circular Tetued in New York. B. T. Babbitt, of New York, used a cast-iron constructionof vertical tubes (tig. 7) connected together, top and bottom,each vertical tube having horizontal radial tubes on each s
. American engineer and railroad journal . Fio. 6.—THE FLETCHER BOILER, on Boilers, p. 85. Fletcher used a vertical fire box boiler (fig. 6) with horizon-tal cone-shaped tubes radiating from the sides of the fire-boxtoward the centre. This is probably the least objectionableform of the closed-end tube. i6o THE AMERICAN ENGINEER [April, i8gs-. THE li. T. BABBITT BOILER. Circular Tetued in New York. B. T. Babbitt, of New York, used a cast-iron constructionof vertical tubes (tig. 7) connected together, top and bottom,each vertical tube having horizontal radial tubes on each side,thoroughly demonstrating the folly of placing a combinationof thick cast metal and scale between fire and water. J. A. Miller used cast headers, to which were fixed closedended tubes with an inner circulating tube [(fig. 8). These
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