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Definition of Stokers
1. stoker [n] - See also: stoker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stokers
Literary usage of Stokers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1922)
"In the case of natural-draft chain-grate stokers the greatest losses arc those
... Chain-grate stokers provided with forced draft operate successfully under ..."
2. Mechanical Equipment of Buildings: A Reference Book for Engineers and Architects by Louis Allen Harding, Arthur Cutts Willard (1917)
"The mechanical stokers permit the use of cheap fuels with good economy and ...
There is a tendency with all types of stokers to cause the loss of some fuel ..."
3. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1910)
"Smoke-preventing devices may be divided into two classes: (1) Those which are an
integral part of the boiler and setting, such as mechanical stokers, ..."
4. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1917)
"Mechanical stokers. — Uniform evolution of the volatile gases of the fuel is the
essential requisite for smokeless combustion ..."
5. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1913)
"Mechanical stokers. — Uniform, evolution of the volatile the fuel is the essential
requisite for smokeless combustion, a for this reason that mechanical ..."
6. Steam Boiler Engineering: A Treatise on Steam Boilers and the Design and by Heine Safety Boiler Company, Heine Safety Boiler Co (1920)
"In large plants where automatic coal and ash handling equipment can also be
installed advantageously, the use of stokers reduces the labor cost and the ..."
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