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

But a closer approximation to full radiation may be obtained by employing a hollow vessel the internal walls of which are blackened and maintained at a uniform temperature by a steam jacket or other suitable means.

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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.

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It may also be caused by the cylinder being unduly cooled, as from water accumulating in a steam jacket.

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E is the outer casing containing the steam jacket from which the steam, after being fed through the steam-supply pipe G, passes into the annular space surrounding the spindle P. It will be seen that if the spindle P be travelled inwards by turning the handle N, the orifice at the nozzle RR will be opened so as to allow the steam to flow out radially.

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In his process a current was passed through a tank divided into two or three cells by porous partitions, hoods and tubes were arranged to carry off chlorine and hydrogen respectively, and the whole was heated to 120� F. by a steam jacket when caustic alkali was being made.

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