Crossword clues for firebox
Wiktionary
n. 1 The chamber of a steam engine, or a steam locomotive, in which the fuel is burned. 2 The part of a fireplace where the fuel is burned. 3 (context vulgar English) A redheaded woman (by synecdoche, pars pro toto), or her red pubic hair, from (term box vagina English).
WordNet
n. a furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned
Wikipedia
In a steam engine, the firebox is the area where the fuel is burned, producing heat to boil the water in the boiler. Most are somewhat box-shaped, hence the name. The hot gases generated in the firebox are pulled through a rack of tubes running through the firebox boiler.
A firebox or firepit is the part of the fireplace where fuel is combusted, in distinction from the hearth, chimney, mantel, overdoor and flue elements of the total fireplace system. The firebox normally sits on a masonry base at the floor level of the room. Some fireboxes are large in proportion so that a person could actually walk inside, or in extreme cases have a small meeting using built-in benches inside. An example of the latter oversize construction can be found in the great hall of Muchalls Castle in Scotland.
Firebox may refer to:
- Firebox (steam engine), the area where the fuel is burned in a steam engine
- Firebox (architecture), the part of a fireplace where fuel is combusted
- Firebox Records, a Finnish record label
- Firebox.com, an electronic commerce company based in the UK.
- Firebox brand of network security products by WatchGuard
- Fire alarm box, an outdoor device used for notifying a fire department of a fire
- Firebox (song), a song by Europe from the album Bag of Bones
"Firebox" is the second single to be released from the Swedish rock band Europe's ninth studio album, Bag of Bones. It was released as a digital download on August 18, 2012.
Usage examples of "firebox".
A loose horse galloped in terror past a gang of sweating demons who were destroying the last locomotives in the depot by stuffing their fireboxes with gunpowder and mangling the condenser tubes with bullets.
To the left was the nonmarital groundhog kiln, a low, domed, brick-lined burrow with a firebox in the front and a chimney at the back.
These diagrams show, and label, certain major components of the boiler system (the firebox and its grate, the water circulation, the steam dome, and the superheater tubes), the engine system (the steam chest, the valve, and the cylinder-and-piston), the transmission system (the crosshead, main rods, and connecting rods), the driving and leading wheels, the valve control system (the eccentric crank and rod), the exhaust system (exhaust pipes, smoke box and smokestack), and the control system (throttle valve, throttle lever, safety valve).
While anthracite burns smokelessly, it combusts slowly and requires a firebox several times larger than for a bituminous coal burner to achieve the same heat production rate.
He began scraping with one square-cut nail at the soot that coated the interior of the open cylindrical firebox.
Decreasing the drive wheel diameter is the only way of increasing long-term tractive effort which does not require that the boiler and firebox be enlarged to pay for it.
This creates a partial vacuum in the smoke box, which in turn elicits the draft which fans the flames in the firebox.
In die cab itself, through the flurries of snow, he caught a glimpse of the engineer, and of his fireman turning and stooping as he shovelled coal from the tender into the firebox.
The engineer was anticipating the com-forts of Manassas, where he and his fireman would cook their supper by grilling two steaks on a greased shovel held in the locomotive's firebox.
The wet steam from the steam dome is fed into narrow tubes which enter the top row of superheater tubes from the smoke box end, make a U-turn at the firebox end, and exit.
He pads into the main chamber where he sorts out some of the thin strips of wood in the starter basket, and then piles some of the larger pieces above it in the firebox.
The calliope's professor stoked its firebox, Goesle fixed the new filigree crests on all the wagons, Beck's windjammers got out their instruments and Hannibal put the sheepskin boots on the camel and elephants.
If an 'eight coupled' loco is too heavy for the relatively flimsy tracks we have in service, we could construct a 'Decapod' 2-10-0 (the driving weight is spread over five axles instead of four) or a 'Santa Fe' 2-10-2 (the trailing axle permits a larger firebox, hence more steaming capacity).
Having lots of tubes increases the heating area, but weakens the tube plate of the firebox.
Like a railroad locomotive, it had a firebox under a water boiler, but there its resemblance to a locomotive ended.