. American engineer and railroad journal . anbe made to the table on page 165 for the boiler and other front end arrangement of thisboiler is interesting, largely becauseof the fact that the tube sheet is set6o?/2 in. back of the center line ofthe stack. This gives a total lengthof front end of 96 i in., a figurewhich was quite common a fewyears ago when extension front endswere popular, but differs from themin the fact that the stack is at thefront instead of at the rear end. Thearrangement of the deflector anddiaphragm plates is shown in one ofthe illustrations. It will be seen th
. American engineer and railroad journal . anbe made to the table on page 165 for the boiler and other front end arrangement of thisboiler is interesting, largely becauseof the fact that the tube sheet is set6o?/2 in. back of the center line ofthe stack. This gives a total lengthof front end of 96 i in., a figurewhich was quite common a fewyears ago when extension front endswere popular, but differs from themin the fact that the stack is at thefront instead of at the rear end. Thearrangement of the deflector anddiaphragm plates is shown in one ofthe illustrations. It will be seen thata diaphragm plate of 3/16 in. steelextends from the top of the tubesdownward at an angle of about 35degrees to a point 22!s in. from thebottom of the ring. From this pointflat plates of the same material ex-tend forward to a point just in frontof the exhaust nozzle where an ad-justable diaphragm apron, project-ing vertically downward is maximum clearance beneath this Aocus 1908. \M ERIC AN ENGINKKk AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 297. r fT T ;i, aw- a ii ii I. Mil
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