. American engineer . Fig. 3—Ryerson Overhead Type Flue Cleaner. on a flue carrier or car, Fig. 5, conveniently located at the frontend of the locomotive, as represented in Fig. 2. When thecarrier is loaded it is picked up by the crane, carried to theboiler shop, and set down on the cross service track, which is. Fig. 2—Removing Tubes from the Boiler and Loading on the Flue Car In the Erecting Shop. 1.—Safe-end machine for cutting and scarting tubes. J.—Furnace for heating superheater flues. K.—Cut-off saw and expander for superheater flues. L.—Welder and swedger, designed for flues from 2 in.
. American engineer . Fig. 3—Ryerson Overhead Type Flue Cleaner. on a flue carrier or car, Fig. 5, conveniently located at the frontend of the locomotive, as represented in Fig. 2. When thecarrier is loaded it is picked up by the crane, carried to theboiler shop, and set down on the cross service track, which is. Fig. 2—Removing Tubes from the Boiler and Loading on the Flue Car In the Erecting Shop. 1.—Safe-end machine for cutting and scarting tubes. J.—Furnace for heating superheater flues. K.—Cut-off saw and expander for superheater flues. L.—Welder and swedger, designed for flues from 2 in. to 6J^ in. indiameter. (This machine should be adapted for welding the AV2 in. safe-ends on the small end or full size ^Yi in. on the opposite end of the super-heater flue. After the required amount of flues are safe-ended andwelded, the adjustment can be changed to perform the operation of swedg-ing and the flues again put through the machine and swedged. Tliisinvolves another heat, but as the number of superheater flues to be usually located between the erecting and the boiler shops. Suchia service track at this point is quite common to both the longi-tudinal and transverse types of shop. The tube car is pushedlalong this track, in the direction of the arrows, to the track onwhich the tube cl
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