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CERAMIC ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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for the making of large pieces of hollow ware, and two friction jolleys with heads and rings for the manufacture of medium and small sizes of flat and hollow ware are also provided. One of these is arranged for use as a thrower's wheel. The other apparatus in this laboratory includes a tile press with dies for the preparation of ware by the dust process; a potter's lathe of the most modern type; bench whirlers; and a decorator's printing press. A large drying closet and a damp closet are also included in the equipment for the work in pottery. The plaster shop (106) is intended for the preparation of models and molds for pottery and other clay wares. I t is equipped with a bench whirler, two potter's wheels and a potter's lathe. Concrete topped tables for modeling terra cotta forms and casting molds, together with shelving for the storage of models and molds, complete the equipment of this room. The kiln laboratory, which is in a separate structure connected with the main building by a corridor, is equipped with two open fire downdraft test kilns with chambers of one cubic yard capacity, and one muffle kiln with two-thirds of a cubic yard capacity. These kilns are fired with coal or coke. A round downdraft kiln with a two-foot chamber, a load-test kiln for testing refractories under load at high temperatures, and a muffle furnace for enameling and decorating work are arranged for oil firing. A battery of four gas fired frit furnaces, a small gas fired test kiln with a preheating arrangement for the gas and air, a Monarch tilting Seventeen