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Steam chest   /stim tʃɛst/   Listen
Steam chest

noun
1.
The chamber from which steam is distributed to a cylinder.





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"Steam chest" Quotes from Famous Books



... stereotypers is off by itself. There is a furnace in it, and a great caldron of melted type metal. They take the page of the paper which has just been made up; put it on a hot steam chest; spat down upon the type some thick pulpy paper soaked so as to make it fit around the type; spread plaster of Paris on the back, so as to keep the pulpy paper in shape; and put the whole under the press which more perfectly squeezes the pulpy paper down upon the type, and causes it ...
— Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls • Anonymous
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