Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any form of furnace using the natural draft of a chimney without the aid of a bellows or blower; a natural-draft furnace; a laboratory-furnace provided with a tall chimney.
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It is then moderately heated over a Bunsen burner, and afterwards more strongly fused over a blast, or enclosed in a clay crucible in the wind-furnace.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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STEEL, by exposing a fasciculus of the blistered steel rods, with sand scattered over them for the purposes of a flux, to the heat of a wind-furnace until the whole mass becomes of a welding heat, when it is taken from the fire and drawn out under a forge-hammer, -- the process of welding being repeated, after which the steel is reduced to the required sizes.
Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858
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A further process is the manufacture of the metal thus treated into SHEAR STEEL, by exposing a fasciculus of the blistered steel rods, with sand scattered over them for the purposes of a flux, to the heat of a wind-furnace until the whole mass becomes of a welding heat, when it is taken from the fire and drawn out under a forge-hammer, -- the process of welding being repeated, after which the steel is reduced to the required sizes.
Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863
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