Kilns
[kɪln]
Examples
- One of these consists of the crushing and grinding machinery, and the other of the long kilns. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Scattered over the country one still finds isolated charcoal kilns, crude earthen receptacles, in which wood thus deprived of air was allowed to smolder and form charcoal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In some great kilns fires are never allowed to cease. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The kilns were burning, and a stifling vapour set towards us with a pale-blue glare. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The standard kilns then in use were about sixty feet in length, with an internal diameter of about five feet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Besides, the oncoming material would thus be gradually raised in temperature instead of being heated abruptly, as in the shorter kilns. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This ground material passes through kilns and comes out in clinker. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Consequently other means than the slow processes of nature to dry brick and other ceramics, and the crude kilns are giving way to modern heat distributing structures. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Kilns are usually arranged with a slight incline, at the upper end of which the chalk is fed in and gradually works its way down to the interior flame of burning fuel at the other end. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Inventions in the line of pottery kilns have received the aid of woman. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Old plants are lengthening their kilns wherever practicable, and no wide-awake manufacturer building a modern plant could afford to install other than these long kilns. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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