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Definition of Tank iron
1. Noun. Plate iron that is thinner than boilerplate but thicker than sheet iron or stovepipe iron.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tank Iron
Literary usage of Tank iron
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Directory of Iron and Steel Works of the United States and Canada by American Iron and Steel Institute, American Iron and Steel Association (1884)
"... flange bloom boiler plate and heads, boiler steel, tank iron, and light and
heavy sheet iron ; annual capacity, 12000 net tons of boiler and tank iron, ..."
2. Directory of Iron and Steel Works of the United States and Canada by American Iron and Steel Institute, American Iron and Steel Association (1886)
"... flange bloom boiler plate and heads, boiler steel, tank iron, and light and
heavy sheet iron ; annual capacity, 12000 net tons of boiler and tank iron, ..."
3. Directory to the Iron and Steel Works of the United States by American Iron and Steel Association (1884)
"... flange bloom boiler plate and heads, boiler steel, tank iron, and light and
heavy sheet iron; annual capacity, 12000 net tons of boiler and tank iron, ..."
4. Directory of Iron and Steel Works of the United States and Canada by American Iron and Steel Institute, American Iron and Steel Association (1888)
"INDIANA. plate and heads, boiler steel, tank iron, and light and heavy sheet
iron ; annual capacity, 12000 net tons of boiler and tank iron, boiler steel, ..."
5. The Metallurgy of Silver, Gold, and Mercury in the United States by Thomas Egleston (1887)
"It is a large reverberatory, with a cast or tank-iron basin, into which the ...
Made of cast iron, its size is limited ; made of tank iron, there does not ..."
6. Applied Mechanics by Gaetano Lanza (1885)
"Tank-Iron, the lowest grade, not suitable for use in the shell of a boiler, and
including all iron too poor for this purpose. 2°. C. No. ..."
7. Applied Mechanics by Gaetano Lanza (1885)
"Tank-Iron, the lowest grade, not suitable for use in the shell of a boiler, and
including all iron too poor for this purpose. 2°. C. No. ..."
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