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Definition of Grates
1. grate [v] - See also: grate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grates
Literary usage of Grates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Metallurgy by Carl Schnabel (1898)
"Furnaces fired by grates. 2. Furnaces fired by grates and by gas. 3. ...
Furnaces Fired by grates These furnaces are either single or double. ..."
2. Heating and Ventilating Buildings: A Manual for Heating Engineers and Architects by Rolla Clinton Carpenter (1903)
"The grates are usually constructed of cast iron and in a very great variety of
forms, as shown in Figs. 157 and 158. In some instances a series of parallel ..."
3. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1917)
"Overfeed Step grates. — In stokers of the overfeed step grate type coal is pushed
in at the top of the slope and caked by the aid of a fire-brick ..."
4. Official Proceedings (1919)
"When we dump it forward we get an opening of about eight inches between the grates.
I do not believe in dump grates. We are getting Indiana and Illinois ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on Metallurgy: Adapted from the Last German Edition of by Bruno Kerl, William Crookes, Ernst Otto Röhrig (1870)
"Combustion on Step grates*—The construction of this kind of grate may be ...
These grates allow of a continual firing and the application of small fuel. ..."
6. Steam-boiler Economy: A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Fuel Economy by William Kent (1901)
"With coals of the character just described, shaking- or dumping-grates are almost
a necessity, ... Many different forms of snch grates are in the market. ..."
7. The Mechanical Engineering of Steam Power Plants by Frederic Remsen Hutton (1908)
"If the air can be preheated by otherwise wasted heat, considerable saving results.
111. The Grate-Bars. Stationary grates. The problems which the boiler ..."
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