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CERAMIC ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OP ILLINOIS

furnace for the fusion of glass batches, and several small pot furnaces for fusion work are also provided. The various kilns and furnaces are connected by underground flues to a 6o-foot stack. A small room adjoining the kiln laboratory is provided with indicating and recording instruments which are connected to thermocouples in the kilns. A Simmance-Abady carbon-dioxide recorder is connected with the three coal fired kilns for the study of atmospheric conditions in the firing. A steam heated dryer is provided for the drying of wares and test pieces. The machinery equipment of the kiln laboratory consists of a 5-foot dry pan elevator and a Jeffrey shaking screen; a 4-compartment steel bin for storing ground clay above the 8-foot double shaft pug mill; a 5-foot wet pan; an auger brick machine with a capacity of 6,000 bricks per day with a take-off belt and a hand power side delivery cutting table; a miniature auger brick machine; a hand power repress; and a hand power dry press for full sized brick as well as a miniature dry press for briquettes; two hand-power Hunger machines for briquette molding; a saggar press; a tile press; a 14 x 28-inch iron ball mill; a set of laboratory rolls and a small jaw crusher. An air compressor is provided for special needs and a rotary blower and oil pump supply the oil burners. The kiln building also provides bins for the storage of fuel, clays and refractories; and a small classroom and a laboratory equipped with tables for the testing of clays and specimens burned in the kilns. Nineteen