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Definition of Tank furnace
1. Noun. Furnace into one end of which a batch of measured raw materials is shoveled and from the other end molten glass is obtained.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tank Furnace
Literary usage of Tank furnace
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1912)
"BEHAVIOR OF AN ACID GLASS IN A tank furnace. By JM KNOTE, Pittsburgh, Pa. It is
no ordinary thing for a glass manufacturer to be troubled by devitrification ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"melted glass — as the operation of the tank furnace is continuous. The mixture
melts more quickly and with less expenditure of fuel in these conditions than ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... the tank furnace the openings for the entrance of the fuel-gas and air, and
for the exit of the waste gases after combustion, are generally placed along ..."
4. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1917)
"GLASS TANK-FURNACE OPERATION BY RL FRINK, LANCASTER, OHIO. In the past two or
three years there has been more or less trouble experienced by tank-furnace ..."
5. Modern Mechanism: Exhibiting the Latest Progress in Machines, Motors, and by D. Appleton and Company (1892)
"Z.-Slemens tank-furnace. an(1 working-out of glass it also »void the impurities
which were found to float upon the surface of the liquid in the tank or pot, ..."
6. Modern Mechanism: Exhibiting the Latest Progress in Machines, Motors, and by D. Appleton and Company (1892)
"Siemens tank-furnace. About the first improvement made on the Siemens continuous
... S.—Siemens tank-furnace. segment of a circle, with the feeding-door ..."
7. Glass Manufacture by Walter Rosenhain (1919)
"For a given size of plant, therefore, a tank furnace yields a much larger output,
... (3) The tank furnace obviates the need for pots or crucibles, ..."
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