. American engineer and railroad journal . CROSS-SECTIONS THROUGII THE COMBINE WATER-TUBE BOILER. to the possibility of shipping the boiler as an almost completedunit. Each boiler is shipped in three sections, the sectionsconsisting of a steam drum, the tubes, the manifolds and the dis-tributing drum. These are assembled and tested at the works. 286 THE AMERICAN ENGINEER [.lime, 1895. only rc< (Hiring the connecting of the same at the point of erectionto form the perfect hoiler. All sections are connected by ex-. tition with the return fire-tube boiler. It is built in unitsranging from 50 1
. American engineer and railroad journal . CROSS-SECTIONS THROUGII THE COMBINE WATER-TUBE BOILER. to the possibility of shipping the boiler as an almost completedunit. Each boiler is shipped in three sections, the sectionsconsisting of a steam drum, the tubes, the manifolds and the dis-tributing drum. These are assembled and tested at the works. 286 THE AMERICAN ENGINEER [.lime, 1895. only rc< (Hiring the connecting of the same at the point of erectionto form the perfect hoiler. All sections are connected by ex-. tition with the return fire-tube boiler. It is built in unitsranging from 50 t 600 \, and is capable el currying a working pressure up to 201) lbs. per square inch. BOGERTS 28 IN. TURRETLATHE. ENGINE Fig. OF TUBES IN THE COMBINE WATER-TUBE BOILER paneled tubes or nipples, there not being a single bolt or thread-ed connection in the entire combination. The tubes formingthe heating surface are practically straight. The slight curvein the two tubes in eachsection made necessary foralignment in entering tubeholes in the drums is practi-cally done at the tube millsduring the process of manufacture. The tubes withcurved ends are in everyrespect interchangeable be-tween the different will also be observed thatthere are no departuresfrom the established linesof ihe standard boilers ofthe? water tube type. Theassemblage of heating sur-faces, the building up ofthe same with standardtubes, drums and mani-folds, and their relation toeach other, the travel ofgases i
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