Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 101
ed by three chimneys in thearch, the main one, of about 1 foot square, in the middle, the others, about 4 inches square, at equal.listances from the central one. This last has, as usual, a cast-iron cover; the others are closed with abrick. The coke from these ovens is supposed to be very good. In… … IRON. 95 the temperature. Thus, for instance, if the heat is got up too quick, (as it is very apt to be,) the cokowith fat coals is spoiled by burning out too Bwoln, light, and friable; with dry coals, it burns up andcauses 1--. Also, ovens yield, on an average, about 1 per cent more cuke, but…
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