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• steam chest
  steam chest

  noun

  the chamber from which steam enters the cylinder of an engine.
• steam-chest
  steam-chest

  noun

  a chamber that encloses the slide valve of a steam engine and forms a manifold for the steam supply to the valve

steam chest

American  

noun

1. the chamber from which steam enters the cylinder of an engine.

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steam-chest British  

noun

1. a chamber that encloses the slide valve of a steam engine and forms a manifold for the steam supply to the valve

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Etymology

Origin of steam chest

First recorded in 1790–1800

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The receiver is by some called the steam chest of the boiler.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

The high pressure cylinder has a piston valve, the steam chest being shown at a.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

One end of this wire is placed in the fixed center punch mark in the steam chest, and with the other a mark is made upon the slide spindle.

From Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.?No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures by Various

The steam in the jacket should be received direct from the boiler, and should not be drawn from the jacket into the steam chest because the jacket reduces its temperature and condenses it.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

“There’s something twisted around the steam chest, Mr. Fogg.”

From Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car by Allen Chapman

"The mammoth, as I saw it, had a huge hump—like the steam-chest of an enormous engine—over its shoulders."

From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes

The hand wheel and rod to the right are to operate the stop-cock for turning on and off the steam to the steam-chest.

From Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught by Joshua Rose

It involves the steam-chest and the slide-valve, and all other kinds of steam valves that have been invented, including the Corliss cut-off, and all others that are akin to it in object and action.

From Steam, Steel and Electricity by James W. Steele

This here leetle wad o' cotton was under me steam-chest.

From Sundown Slim by Anton Otto Fischer

Foley, clinging with one hand to a headlight bracket, dropped down on the steam-chest and swung far out.

From The Nerve of Foley And Other Railroad Stories by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman