Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A metal plate used to direct the flames and gas of a furnace to different parts of a steam-boiler, so that all portions of it will be evenly heated; a deflector.
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Examples
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There was a warped baffle-plate on their energy pile shield.
Charlie X 1966
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To enable this steam to rise regularly in the working pot, a disk-plate is placed above the nozzle, which acts as a baffle-plate; and uniform distribution of the steam is the result.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various
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The gas evolved passes from each generating chamber through a pipe _L_, terminating in the dip-pipe _M_, which is provided with a baffle-plate having very small perforations by which the stream of gas is broken up, thereby subjecting it to thorough washing by the upper layers of water in the gasholder tank.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
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Any water leaking from the tubes above the bottom baffle-plate will ultimately be deposited upon that plate.
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