Noun:

upCast,

upcast's Usage Examples:

within the pit and the hot air rose up the one side of the brattice (the upcast side) drawing cold air down the other (the downcast side).

0 m) diameter used as the upcast for numbers 1, 2 and 3.

1 (upcast 798 yards (730 m)) and No.

This shaft was to act as the upcast for the Institute Pit and was named the Laura, after Mr Charles J.

2 upcast shaft was sunk in 1873 and deepened to the Arley mine, a hot mine where.

2 shaft, the upcast shaft.

447 feet, the Puffer for pumping water to 435 feet and the Volunteer, the upcast ventilation shaft.

The downcast shaft was converted to upcast with a furnace at its foot.

The shafts, North (upcast), and South, were 626 and 650 yards deep respectively, and were the largest.

The upcast shaft was provided with ropes and pulleys for use if the downcast was blocked.

1 shaft was 10 feet in diameter and 155 yards deep and as the upcast.

Upcast, upcast shaft The upcast is the shaft by which the spent air is expelled after ventilating.

There were three shafts on the colliery site, with a fourth upcast shaft located a distance to the NNW.

The origins of the word lie in digging a trench and forming the upcast soil into a bank alongside it.

public static void main(String args[]) { // The following is an implicit upcast: Fruit parent = new Apple(); // The following is a downcast.

pit was the "downcast pit" down which fresh air travelled, the other the "upcast pit" up which spent air escaped.

The colliery initially had three shafts: Hetty Pit (downcast, later upcast), Pit No.

Also, there is an 8 metres (26 ft) gap in the upcast mound at the same point.

The upcast shaft was then fitted out for coal winding and output continued to climb.

is frequently a crescent shape, which is seen as being the result of the upcast.

Synonyms:

air duct; airway; air passage;