. The street railway review . consists of 8 sections each with 32 wrought iron tubes of the typeshown in Fig. 11; the tubes are I in. internal diameter and about13 ft. long. A similar condenser is shown in Figs. 56 and 57. and is principallyin use abroad. It consists, as usual, of two end boxes into whichgalvanized wrought iron tubes are expanded. The ends of theseboxes have small gland-shaped covers opposite the end of eachtube, to facilitate the expanding and examination of the joint. Thewater distribution is carried out by means of a triangular V-shaped rv,„. F.^M :^ « 0 V 9 •i > V W ^ V
. The street railway review . consists of 8 sections each with 32 wrought iron tubes of the typeshown in Fig. 11; the tubes are I in. internal diameter and about13 ft. long. A similar condenser is shown in Figs. 56 and 57. and is principallyin use abroad. It consists, as usual, of two end boxes into whichgalvanized wrought iron tubes are expanded. The ends of theseboxes have small gland-shaped covers opposite the end of eachtube, to facilitate the expanding and examination of the joint. Thewater distribution is carried out by means of a triangular V-shaped rv,„. F.^M :^ « 0 V 9 •i > V W ^ V9 8 9 li- ^» <■ 0 1 ( ^ 1 H 0 R ^ Ah.^ iij» (^ tagj 1=) \ fc-:-J trough with holes drilled through the bottom. This condenser issuitable for condensing lb. of steam per hour. Its height is 10ft., its total length 12 ft., andits width 5 ft. Such condensersweigh about lb. per lb. of steam condensed. A cast iron condenser of the vertical type, Figs. 58 and 59, con-sists of two rows of vertical pipes S leading out of two horizontalpipes connected at the top by bends. A is the exhaust main, and Bthe air-pump suction pipe for drawing off the condensed vertical pipes are 4 in. diameter. A cast iron trough D isfixed above the vertical pipes, and immediately above each pipe the JULV 15, 1899.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 461 trough is perforated by a hole which allows the water to fall di-rectly on the center of the bend, the water passing down the wholelength of (lie pipe to the collecting tank F. The delivery pipefrom the ci
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