Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers .. . this boiler. It willbe seen at oncethat the questionof stays for a firebox of this typebecomes very sim-ple. The boilerhas proved to beso satisfactory thatthe company hassince had five moreof the same typeconstructed. Gusset stays areused mainly inboilers of the Lan-cashire model andare triangular-shaped platessheared to theproper form andhaving- two angleirons riveted to theedges that comeagainst the shelland the head. Theangle irons arethen riveted to theshell and the flathead. This formof brace
Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers .. . this boiler. It willbe seen at oncethat the questionof stays for a firebox of this typebecomes very sim-ple. The boilerhas proved to beso satisfactory thatthe company hassince had five moreof the same typeconstructed. Gusset stays areused mainly inboilers of the Lan-cashire model andare triangular-shaped platessheared to theproper form andhaving- two angleirons riveted to theedges that comeagainst the shelland the head. Theangle irons arethen riveted to theshell and the flathead. This formof brace is simpleand solid, but itschief defect is,that it is very rigid THE BOILER 1515 and does not allow for the unequal expansion of the in-ternal furnace flues and the shell. Fig. 106 illustrates agusset stay and the method of applying it. Coming now to through stay rods, it is safe to saythat whenever and wherever it is possible to applythem they should be used. In all cases they should. Vertical Section A-B. nog
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