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  2. Kiln - Wikipedia

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    Bottle kiln: a type of intermittent kiln, usually coal-fired, formerly used in the firing of pottery; such a kiln was surrounded by a tall brick hovel or cone, of typical bottle shape. The tableware was enclosed in sealed fireclay saggars; as the heat and smoke from the fires passed through the oven it would be fired at temperatures up to 1,400 ...

  3. Hoffmann kiln - Wikipedia

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    The Hoffmann kiln is a series of batch process kilns. Hoffmann kilns are the most common kiln used in production of bricks and some other ceramic products. Patented by German Friedrich Hoffmann for brickmaking in 1858, it was later used for lime-burning, and was known as the Hoffmann continuous kiln.

  4. Brickfield - Wikipedia

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    The Hoffmann Continuous Kiln was the first move towards mass production. It was a series of downdraught kilns, connected in a circle or in a long rectangle. Each kiln had an access channel to the next so as soon as the one kiln was fully firing process, the waste heat would begin to fire the next. The fires would thus burn around in sequence.

  5. Brickworks - Wikipedia

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    An old Puolimatka's brick factory in Kissanmaa, Tampere, Finland, in the 1960s. Most brickworks have some or all of the following: A kiln, for firing, or 'burning' the bricks. Drying yard or shed, for drying bricks before firing. A building or buildings for manufacturing the bricks. A quarry for clay. A pugmill or clay preparation plant (see ...

  6. United Brick Corporation Brick Complex - Wikipedia

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    The kilns represent the only remaining brickyard in Washington, D.C., and one of the few extant examples of the rounded "beehive" kiln style. The structures are constructed of red common brick, lined with heat-resistant firebrick and capped with arched, brick roofs. [1] The complex also contained eight exhaust stacks.

  7. List of State Register of Heritage Places in the City of Belmont

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    Old Bristile Kilns: 868: 80 Grandstand Road Ascot: 3 July 1992 1920 Also referred to as Bristile Kilns (former), Belmont, Kilns and Chimney Stacks and Old Bristile Kilns (Beehive Kilns) Includes five brick chimneys; Invercloy Park 25910

  8. Guignard Brick Works - Wikipedia

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    The brick works was established by the Guignard family in 1801 and over the years produced brick for many buildings in Columbia, South Carolina and throughout the South. The complex includes four brick beehive kilns, a historic brick office, and remnants of other industrial features of the brick works.

  9. Bursledon Brickworks Museum - Wikipedia

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    The kiln was a Staffordshire-type, continuous kiln (based on a Hoffmann kiln) with twelve chambers. Each chamber could hold up to 26,000 bricks at a time. The kiln was always burning with the chambers going from cold to over 1,000*C every 15 days or so. In 1903, the brickworks changed its name to The Bursledon Brick Co. Limited or (B.B.C. Ltd ...