Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 232
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 theywill occupy; for this reason the inverted conical form of the kiln is the most appropriate. The intensityof the fire… … dimensions, 500 cubic feet of lime are drawn in twenty-four hours, and the consumption of coal is abouttwo tonsi pig, 2595 ats a section, and fig. 2596 a plan of one of the mosl approved forma of perpetual kilns in use in Prussia, in which one part of wood and four parts of peat areddddd are…
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