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Steam chest

noun

The chamber from which steam is distributed to a cylinder.

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"Steam chest" Quotes from Famous Books

... over the page, and this almost pulpy paper is rapidly and dexterously beaten evenly all over with stiff hair brushes until the soft paper is pressed down into all the interstices between the type; then this is covered with blankets and the whole is placed upon a steam chest, where it is subjected to heat and pressure until the wet paper becomes perfectly dry. Then, this dried and hardened paper, called a matrix, is placed in a circular mould, and melted stereotype metal is poured in and cooled, ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 • Various

... she was really homely, but she'd never have been arrested for her beauty. There was something 'fetching' about her appearance—you couldn't help liking her. She was intelligent, and it was such a novelty to find a woman who knew the smoke stack from the steam chest. I didn't fall in love with her at all, but I liked to talk to her over the work. She told me her story; not all at once, but here and there a piece, until I knew her ...

— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady

Words linked to "Steam chest" : chamber, steam engine