Factory and industrial management . ters relative to the new boilers is considered to be a very goodaugury—enginemen and locomotive depots abhorring changes. Theplan of the firebox is very clear in Figure 25, and is all the more so ifthe reader will take the trouble to view the engraving the wrong wayup. The arrangement was proposed by Mr. Guth, the new directorof the engine department of the Societe Alsacienne de ConstructionsAlecaniques, and accepted by the chief of motive power, Orleans form is new, but the principle old. In 1899 Cockerills of Ser-aing, Belgium, built for the Belgian
Factory and industrial management . ters relative to the new boilers is considered to be a very goodaugury—enginemen and locomotive depots abhorring changes. Theplan of the firebox is very clear in Figure 25, and is all the more so ifthe reader will take the trouble to view the engraving the wrong wayup. The arrangement was proposed by Mr. Guth, the new directorof the engine department of the Societe Alsacienne de ConstructionsAlecaniques, and accepted by the chief of motive power, Orleans form is new, but the principle old. In 1899 Cockerills of Ser-aing, Belgium, built for the Belgian State lines, and showed at theParis Exhibition, their remarkable 0 00 0 type having the genuinewide Belpaire firebox, but with somewhat less than half its lengthat the forward end contracted, between the high driving wheels, tolittle more than half the full width. The forward end of the firebox isfitted between the frames near the rear driving wheels. The sameefifect is realised in the new conical-plan boxes of the Orleans FIG. 25. PARIS-ORLEANS LOCOMOTIVE BOILER SHOWING UNDER SIDE OF TAPERING FIREBOX. The new boilers, with heating surfaces of square metresin firebox and square metres inside flues, and working pres-sure of 16 kilogrammes per square centimetre, weigh 24 tons com-plete with chimney and ash pan. The latest plan for riveting all theseams is best seen in the view of the boiler. The firedoor is of theinwardly-opening type, which will ]M-obably become obligatory in EUROPEAN LOCOMOTIVE WORK. 525 future, as it closes of itself when, as the result of accident, steamrushers into the firebox. The frames are illustrated in the Figure26. It will be observed that they are strongly reinforced where cutout to clear the front end of the firebox. Complete, asshown, andwith yokes or balance levers for the springs, but without draft beamor spring draft and buffing gear, the frame weighs 10 tons. In theengine proper are to be noted points of relative novelty f
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