. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . iated to locomotive. Thatname originated with one of Stephensonsfirst engines, which he called Locomo-tion, and which was exhibited at theWorlds Fair in Chicago. Some devia-tions from the word were common inearly days. When the Norris Locomo-tive Works were built in Philadelphia,the company announced that they weregoing to build locomotors. ^ i © Lowreys Method of Setting Flues. Mr. Jno. R. Lowrey, boiler manufac-turer, of Omaha, has designed and pat-ented the style of fiuc-setting shown in ourengraving.
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . iated to locomotive. Thatname originated with one of Stephensonsfirst engines, which he called Locomo-tion, and which was exhibited at theWorlds Fair in Chicago. Some devia-tions from the word were common inearly days. When the Norris Locomo-tive Works were built in Philadelphia,the company announced that they weregoing to build locomotors. ^ i © Lowreys Method of Setting Flues. Mr. Jno. R. Lowrey, boiler manufac-turer, of Omaha, has designed and pat-ented the style of fiuc-setting shown in ourengraving. The flue sheet has the holesbored concave, and, in addition to this,they are bored with an annular groovein the center of the sheets thickness, intowhich the flue is set with an expanderwhich has a section similar to the hole inthe sheet, after which the ordinary rollerexpander with beaded rollers is used tofinish the job. The advantages claimed for this methodover the old style of setting of bead andcopper ferrule is, that the bead is in thesheet, perfectly protected from the action. of the fire, and is practically a part of theflue sheet. Each flue with this setting hasa bracing effect on the sheets that can beequaled by no other method in use, sincethe tendency of every flue is to rigidly holdthe sheet from moving in or out. When flues set this way begin to leak(as flues will in time, no matter how set),the roller expander can be relied on tocfTcct a cure, because there is no externalbead to burn off and cause a leak, and be-cause, further, it is impossible to reducethe eflicicncy of that part of the flue whichfills the annular groove in the flue thorough test has been made of thisflue-setting, with results that leave nodoubt of its superiority over the old bead-and-ferrule style. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 391 S^1°EPRRTMENT^
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