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1874 Article-Ames Iron Works-12 H. P. Agricutural Steam Engine & 3 H. P. Portable Steam Engine |
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Engineer, Architech & Surveyor, Mechanical Supplement to #7, 15 Oct 1874, pg. 122 |
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6/27/2016 7:30:50 PM |
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Collins Eaton, 70 South Canal Street, Chicago, exhibited the portable or agricultural engines we here illustrate. They were made by the Ames Iron Works, Oswego, N. Y., and are very well known throughout the West as good, substantial, reliable engines. These two engines, one 3 H. P., and the other 12 H. P., were the only exhibits of this class in the Exposition. The cylinders are jacketed with felt, and lagged with iron; valves, the ordinary slide valve with special attention given to amount of "lap" in its design; larger size of engine fitted with feed water heater placed in the bed-plate; the exhaust steam passes through this heater on the way to the smoke stack. The 3 H. P. engine boiler is fitted with return tubes similar to a marine boiler, to make up for its short length; shortening thus the length of the boiler produces a very handy "portable," taking up comparatively small space in any room or building. |
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1874 Ames Iron Works-12 H. P. Agricutural Steam Engine
1874 Ames Iron Works, 3 H. P. Portable Steam Engine
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