steam jacket

American  

noun

1. a casing, as on the cylinder of a steam engine, filled with live steam to keep the interior hot.

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steam jacket British  

noun

1. engineering a jacket containing steam that surrounds and heats a cylinder

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Other Word Forms

• steam-jacketed
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of steam jacket

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

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steam jacket

The heat generated in the furnace is utilized to the utmost, and the escaping vapors form a steam jacket in the double casing of the disinfecting chamber.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 by Various

Cylinders should have a steam jacket, and be felted and planted,   should have escape valves.

From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by John Bourne, C.E.

The wood is inclosed, in a tank kept hot by a steam jacket which surrounds it, as shown.

From Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. by Various

The water of condensation of a steam jacket should not be allowed to accumulate in any part of the jacket, but should drain off and pass back to the boiler.

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

Rotating cylinders are also used; the material to be dried being placed inside, and the cylinder heated by a steam jacket or otherwise.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various