Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 230
f an hour, the lime which has sunk to the bottom of the kiln is drawn out through theholes. The lower the charges sink in the kiln the more the coal is consumed, and the less space they Iwill occupy; for this reason the inverted conical form of the kiln is the most appropriate. The intensityof the… … dimensions, 500 cubic feet of lime are drawn in twenty-four hours, and the consumption of coiil is abouttwo tons. Fi^. 2595 represents a section, and Fig. 2696 a plan of one of tlie most approverl forms of perpetualkilns in use in Prussia, in which one part of wood and four parts of peat areused.…
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