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  • At Dresden's 15th-century Striezelmarkt, craftsmen sell hand-blown Christmas baubles, hand-fired ceramics and wooden figures carved in the Ore Mountains (Nov. 29 to Dec. 24; dresden. de).

    Wonder Lands 2007

  • Nicholas, finished with the tea, felt the hand-fired clay cup sturdy be - neath his palm.

    Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

  • She sipped her coffee from a hand-fired cup sculpted with a grendel tail as handle.

    Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995

  • Stokers -- The term "automatic stoker" oftentimes conveys the erroneous impression that such an apparatus takes care of itself, and it must be thoroughly understood that any stoker requires expert attention to as high if not higher degree than do hand-fired furnaces.

    Steam, Its Generation and Use

  • The better efficiency obtainable with a good stoker is due to more even and continuous firing as against the intermittent firing of hand-fired furnaces; constant air supply as against a variation in this supply to meet varying furnace conditions in hand-fired furnaces; and the doing away to a great extent with the necessity of working the fires.

    Steam, Its Generation and Use

  • Combustion in the fuel bed of hand-fired furnaces, by Henry K.eisinger, F.K. Ovitz, and C.E. Augustine.

    Engineering Bulletin No 1: Boiler and Furnace Testing

  • The efficiency of a hand-fired boiler ought not to be less than 65 per cent, and it can be increased to 70 per cent by careful management under good conditions.

    Engineering Bulletin No 1: Boiler and Furnace Testing

  • To secure the desired equality of conditions with hand-fired boilers, the following method should be employed:

    Steam, Its Generation and Use

  • E.periments with furnaces for a hand-fired return tubular boiler, by S.B. Flagg, G.C. C.ok, and F.E. Woodman.

    Engineering Bulletin No 1: Boiler and Furnace Testing

  • While a constant air supply for a given power is theoretically secured by the use of a stoker, and in many instances the draft is automatically governed, the air supply should, nevertheless, be as carefully watched and checked by flue gas analyses as in the case of hand-fired furnaces.

    Steam, Its Generation and Use

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