Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . consists of a circular channel, a a,which receives the objects to be fired, introducedthrough doors, b b, in the outside wall. Flues, ccc,lead from the heartli of the kiln to the smoke-cham-ber, eee, which surrounds of tlie chimney,d. Tlie eomnninication of each flue can be cut offat will, by means of a cast-iron, intercepting sli
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . consists of a circular channel, a a,which receives the objects to be fired, introducedthrough doors, b b, in the outside wall. Flues, ccc,lead from the heartli of the kiln to the smoke-cham-ber, eee, which surrounds of tlie chimney,d. Tlie eomnninication of each flue can be cut offat will, by means of a cast-iron, intercepting slide can be lowered in grooves, g g. KILN. 1228 KINDLING-WOOD MACHINE. built into the walls of the kiln, immediately aftereach Hue, so as to separate it at any distiiiet oi- ei[ui-distaut iiiui|jartineut. The fuel passes throughapertures/(/(, wliieh are coustrueted iu the areh,and falls through cluiiiuels formed by the objeets tobe burn(Hl to a chamber in tlie hearth of tlie kiln,from which a certain number of small Hues radiateto produce a free current from lire to tire. The kiln has twelve comiiartments, to which thereare twelve entries or doorways i b, also the samenumber of Hues c c. c, communicating with the smoke-Fig. Kilns. chamber e e, and just as many openings g r/ in thearch for the reception of the large interceptingdamper .slide ; thus tlie kiln can be divided at anyone of the twelve parts. The apartments are successively ; while oneis being charged with bricks, tiles, orjiottery, othersare being burned, others are cooling, and one or moremay b; discliarging. The kiln-fiie is supplied with warm air drawnthrough the ajiartments wdiich are being heat passing from the apartments where the lire is burning heats the one ne.\t in series to such anextent that the fuel introduced into the latter is ig-nited, and it conimences Inirning on its own ^mipers in the Hues connecting the apartments,and in the radial Hues leading to the chimney stack,p
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