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2. Sight glass - Wikipedia

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   Water gauge on a steam locomotive. Here the water is at the “top nut”, the maximum working level. Note the patterned backplate to help reading and toughened glass shroud. A sight glass or water gauge is a type of level sensor, a transparent tube through which the operator of a tank or boiler can observe the level of liquid contained within.

3. Glossary of boiler terms - Wikipedia

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   tapered thermic syphon water-tubes inserted in the furnace of a Lancashire boiler. Gauge glass part of the water level gauge, which normally consists of a vertical glass tube connected top and bottom to the boiler backplate. The water level must be visible within the glass at all times. [3] Grooving

4. Package boiler - Wikipedia

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   Internal layout of a three-pass fire-tube boiler. Package boilers are commonly called water or fire tube Boilers. Water tube boilers use convection heating, which draws the heat from the fire source, and passes against the generating tubes of the boiler, causing water inside those tubes to boil off into steam.

5. Boiler - Wikipedia

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   Fire-tube boilers usually have a comparatively low rate of steam production, but high steam storage capacity. Fire-tube boilers mostly burn solid fuels, but are readily adaptable to those of the liquid or gas variety. Fire-tube boilers may also be referred to as "scotch-marine" or "marine" type boilers. [7] Diagram of a water-tube boiler.

6. List of boiler types by manufacturer - Wikipedia

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   three-drum boiler: water-tube boilers with three drums in a triangular arrangement. The best known of these are the Yarrow and Admiralty patterns. Lesser-known examples are the Normand and Mumford. Thornycroft boiler: Several variants of an early naval water-tube boiler. [6] [9] [59] Also a small annular water-tube boiler used in Thornycroft's ...

7. Vertical boiler - Wikipedia

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   A vertical boiler is a type of fire-tube or water-tube boiler where the boiler barrel is oriented vertically instead of the more common horizontal orientation. Vertical boilers were used for a variety of steam -powered vehicles and other mobile machines, including early steam locomotives .

8. Water level (device) - Wikipedia

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   A water level device showing both ends at the same height. A water level (Greek: Aλφαδολάστιχο or (υδροστάθμη) [Alfadolasticho]) is a siphon utilizing two or more parts of the liquid water surface to establish a local horizontal line or plane of reference.

9. Monotube steam generator - Wikipedia

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   The water-tube boilers of the monotube type used in steam cars, such as: AMC; Clayton Steam Generator; Doble steam car; Gardner-Serpollet; Locomobile Company of America; White Motor Company, US patent 659,837 of 1900 [5]