Full text: The steam engine: its invention and progressive improvement, an investigation of its principles, and its application to navigation, manufactures, and railways (Vol. 1)

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EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
Schedule continued. 
Second Futtocks, and Top Timbers, in engine room 
Forward and abaft 
At the gunwale 
Frame, all the frame to be.... 
The timbers to be put together, close joints up to 
the lower futtock head, with dowels uniting their 
heads and heels, and bolted together sidewise 
with 2 bolts 
In each scarph, and all the openings, to be fitted 
in solid with 
From the keel to 2 feet above the turn of the bilge, 
and to be calked ;—adhesive felt to be put in 
between the faying parts of both timbers and 
fittings. 
Main Wales, in 3 strakes together 
To have 1 strake above. 
Two below the main wales. 
Together 
Topsides, three strakes 
Sheer Strakes, two 
Together 
Bottom Plank, from the garboard strake to the turn 
of the bilge 
From thence to the strake below the wales 
Garboard strake 
To be bolted through the keel and opposite strake, 
and up and down through the bottom at every 
third timber with 
All the bolts through the butts 
Short bolts 
Counter :—plank 
Plansheer 
sided 
sided 
moulded 
broad 
thick 
thick 
broad 
thick 
broad 
thick 
thick 
broad 
thick 
ditto 
thick 
thick 
WITHINBOARD. 
Thick Strakes, one at futtock head. 
One above and one below 
Engine Bearers 
through every other timber with 
Forward and abaft with 
Scarph 
And placed clear of each other 
And deep as may be required by the engineer. 
Ft. In. 
0 1\ 
0 7 
0 4i 
2 3 
0 5 
0 4 
0 9 
0 4 
1 3 
0 3 
0 4 
0 2i 
0 3i 
Material. 
English oak, or 
African 
English oak 
English or 
African 
English oak 
African, or 
English oak 
American elm 
Oak, or Dantzic 
American elm 
African 
Diameter of 
bolts. 
thick 
0 4 
broad 
0 9 
thick 
0 3 
broad 
0 9 
long 
4 6 
sided 
1 0 
African 
Copper 
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