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Definition of Slice bar
1. Noun. Iron bar used to loosen and rake clinkers out of furnaces.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slice Bar
Literary usage of Slice bar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Steam, Its Generation and Use by Babcock & Wilcox Company (1913)
"... and such use of the slice bar will cause smoke with the very best type of stoker.
In a certain plant using a highly volatile coal and operating boilers ..."
2. Science and Industry (1902)
"Just before it is time to put in coal take the slice bar, the form of which is shown
... After clearing the grates with the slice bar and removing the Flu. ..."
3. Engineering Series Bulletin (1910)
"UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI BULLETIN obtained by a slow rate of combustion, a slice
bar can be run underneath the clinker and raised just high enough to break ..."
4. Electric Railway Power Stations by Calvin Franklin Swingle (1909)
"... as the larger part of the loose ashes and noncombustible can be gotten rid of
by shaking the grates and using the slice bar at intervals more or less ..."
5. Modern Engineering Practice: A Reference Library by American School (Chicago, Ill.) (1906)
"The prick-bar is similar to the slice-bar except that the end is bent at right
... Then he breaks up the clinkers with the slice-bar and removes the ashes ..."
6. Cyclopedia of Engineering: A General Reference Work on Steam Boilers, Pumps by American School (Chicago, Ill.), Louis Derr, American Technical Society, Chicago (1910)
"The slice-bar is a long, straight bar, with the end flattened. ... The prick-bar
is similar to the slice-bar, except that the end is bent at right angles ..."
7. Cyclopedia of Engineering: A General Reference Work on Steam Boilers and by American Technical Society (1919)
"Four tools are used for cleaning the fire—the slice bar, the prick bar, ...
The slice bar is a long, straight bar, with the end flattened. ..."
8. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1895)
"Lift the slice-bar just enough to break the caked bed. Use the slice-bar as little
as possible. Be very careful not to strain the tubes with the slice-bar. ..."