To this opening a neck-piece about 3 inches
long is riveted, having a flange to fit against the inside of the
second tube, when the two tubes are concentric, through, the side of
which second tube is an opening corresponding with that in the first
tube, and the flanch is screwed to the second tube so as to make one
opening through the sides of the two tubes. The second tube extends
downwards about 5 inches below the first tube, and has a flanch
turning inwards, to which a second round plate of iron is screwed,
forming the bottom of the boiler. The first tube has an external
flanch at the top, and the second tube an internal flanch, both of the
same height, and screwed to a cast-iron circular plate or cap-piece,
which extends wide enough around the boiler to form also the cover
for the air-vessel. This plate has a hole in the middle as large as
the flue. The sides of the condenser and air-vessel are formed of
four concentric tubes, each about 2 inches larger than the one within
it. The inner and outer of these tubes constitute the sides of the
air-vessel, and are each furnished with an external flanch at the
top by which they are screwed to the cap-piece. The two intermediate
tubes constituting the sides of the condenser are riveted together at
the top, leaving a space of about an inch between their upper ends
and the cap-piece, so as to allow of a free communication over them
between the outer and inner parts of the air-vessel. The inner tube of
the air-vessel extends downwards about an inch below the boiler, and
is closed by a flat plate screwed on to a flanch projecting inwards
from the tube; the two tubes of the condenser descend about 3 inches
lower than the boiler. The inner tube has an internal flanch, to which
a flat circular plate is screwed to close up the tube. The outer
tube of the condenser is of the same length with the inner, and is
provided with an external flanch about 3 inches broad. The outer tube
of the air-vessel has an external flanch 2 inches broad, and is just
long enough to come down upon the broad flanch of the condenser last
described, and these two flanches are together bolted upon a bottom
piece of cast iron, which is a dish of 4 inches deep, and equal in
diameter with the diameter of the outer tube, and having a flanch the
same breadth as the flanch of the outer tube, and the bottom piece is
secured to the air-vessel and outer tube of the condenser by bolts
going through all the three flanches. An opening is made through the
sides of all the four tubes of the condenser and air-vessel opposite
to and as wide as the fire-place opening through the sides of the
boiler. The upper part of both openings to be of the same height,
but the outer opening is made as low as the bottom of the boiler, in
order to allow room for a pipe to enter that part of the boiler for
forcing the water into it, and also another pipe and cock for drawing
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