firebox's Usage Examples:

In a steam engine, the firebox is the area where the fuel is burned, producing heat to boil the water in the boiler.

The Belpaire firebox is a type of firebox used on steam locomotives.

As the hottest part of a locomotive boiler is the firebox, it was an effective design to use a water-tube design here and a conventional.

frames was dropped down behind the driving wheels and under the firebox.

The firebox could also be longer and wider, increasing the heating surface area.

would more properly be termed a firebox explosion.

Firebox explosions in solid-fuel-fired boilers are rare, but firebox explosions in gas or oil-fired.

fire tubes, but also has an extension at one end to house the "firebox".

This firebox has an open base to provide a large grate area and often extends.

It had a very wide firebox with a grate area of 60 square feet (5.

For steam engines, the term has also been used for an extension of the firebox which is used to allow a more complete combustion process.

cylindrical furnace or firebox fits entirely within the boiler's outer shell.

Unlike the locomotive boiler, there is no firebox grate emerging beneath.

The locomotive had plate frames, a wide Belpaire firebox, outside admission piston valves and Walschaerts valve gear, and was superheated.

arrangement's disadvantages included the firebox size restriction caused by the lack of trailing wheel.

This meant the firebox was fitted in between the wheels.

ordered, Hendrie improved the boiler by adding a combustion chamber in the firebox, which shortened the distance between tube plates from 21 feet 9 inches.

as an experimental redesign of the 6th Class with a bar frame and wide firebox and with a 2-6-2 Prairie type wheel arrangement.

is an early form of steam locomotive boiler with a prominently raised firebox of "Gothic arch", "haystack", or "coppernob" shape.

provided on the bridle casting to suit the firebox support sliding shoes fitted at the front of the firebox foundation ring.

1901, to accommodate deep and wide fireboxes.

With the 10th Class, on the other hand, he obtained a wide firebox by spreading the grate over the rear.

The engines had plate frames, Walschaerts valve gear, Belpaire fireboxes without combustion chambers and were superheated.

The boilers were equipped with superheaters and had Belpaire fireboxes.

Smoke and hot gases pass from the firebox through tubes where they pass heat to the surrounding water in the boiler.

Synonyms:

steam locomotive; furnace;