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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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steam chest steam-chest

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 agility with which we got into our steam chest would have been amusing to an uninitiated observer.

From The Mountains of Oregon by William Gladstone Steel

A. Would loosen up the steam chest cover to free the sides, and wedge between the studs and walls of chest, crowding the broken parts together.

From The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads by Anonymous

The evaporator consists of a horizontal cylindrical vapor compartment connected with an inclined cylindrical steam chest in which are numerous tubes, or flues, that occupy almost the whole chest.

From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

During the live steam period there is also loss from condensation in the cylinder, but this is made up for by steam from the steam chest.

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

In this device the steam-chest was separated by a horizontal plate into an upper and a lower compartment.

From Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives Baldwin Locomotive Works by Matthew Baird

Additional connexions are made by nearly vertical tubes between this cross-pipe and the bottom of the steam-chest.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various

Steam from the boilers enters the high-pressure steam-chest, x, and is admitted by the steam-valve alternately above and below the piston as usual.

From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Robert H. Thurston

This is done, either by cocks on the outside of the smoke-box or in the cylinder covers, or through holes secured by plugs, in the steam-chest covers. 

From Practical Rules for the Management of a Locomotive Engine in the Station, on the Road, and in cases of Accident by Charles Hutton Gregory

Access to the top ends is obtained in the steam-chest.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various

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