. American engineer and railroad journal . KOTE: To facilitate Renewal of Bottom, 3 Coursesof Firebrick shouldnot be Bonded intoSurrounding Brick. Fig. 2. Fig. 3. Brownes Heating Furnace for Oil Fuel is converted into useful work—that is about fifteen pounds of ironare heated per pound of oil, whereas in the furnaces used in theJuniata shops the heating of thirty pounds of iron to a weld- rr ._ _. , . , i>. Fig- 4 —Brownes Heating Furnace ing heat, per pound of oil, is recordedalmost daily, when the furnaces are run-ning steadily. The general form of the furnace isshown by the engravings Fi
. American engineer and railroad journal . KOTE: To facilitate Renewal of Bottom, 3 Coursesof Firebrick shouldnot be Bonded intoSurrounding Brick. Fig. 2. Fig. 3. Brownes Heating Furnace for Oil Fuel is converted into useful work—that is about fifteen pounds of ironare heated per pound of oil, whereas in the furnaces used in theJuniata shops the heating of thirty pounds of iron to a weld- rr ._ _. , . , i>. Fig- 4 —Brownes Heating Furnace ing heat, per pound of oil, is recordedalmost daily, when the furnaces are run-ning steadily. The general form of the furnace isshown by the engravings Figs. 2, 3 and 4,which represent a side view, a transverseand a longitudinal, section combustion of the oil is effected bymeans of an apparatus, shown at the lefthand end of Figs. 2 and 4, in which theoil is atomized and converted into a sprayor mist by the action of compressed f> is a sectional view of the atomizeron a larger scale than the other air is made to combine or comminglewith the oil in a jet of a definite form,which flows into a combustion tube orgenerator Tin the end of the furnace; theatomizer A being four or five inches awayfrom the furnace; the jet which is shownby shading lines directed centrally towardthe mouth of the tube T, into which thecombined air and atomized oil aredelivered. On starting up, the oil in this form is ignited inside of the
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