Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In bleaching, a large boiler which contains the bleaching-liquor; the alkaline vat of a bleachery. See
bucking and keeve.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
kier .
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- noun Alternative form of
kier .
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At the top of the keir is fixed a mechanical appliance for steaming the cloth.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various
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After the cloth is washed in hot water it is removed from the steamer keir, then follows a rinse in cold water, and the goods are ready for the bleaching process.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various
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It consists of a drum A, the sides of which are constructed of stout netting, carried on a vertical axis working through a stuffing-box, which is fitted in the bottom of the outer or containing vessel or keir B.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 Various
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This keir is so constructed that it will allow of two wire wagons being run in and the door securely fastened.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various
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They use a "steamer keir," the invention of Mr. Mather.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various
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Before the cloth is run into the steamer keir on the wire wagons, it is saturated with about twice its weight of a dilute solution of caustic soda (2° to 4° Twaddell = 0.5 to 1\% Na_ {2} O) at a boiling-temperature, when in the steamer keir it is exposed to an atmosphere of steam at four pounds pressure for five hours.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various
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The reactions which took place in his bleaching keir were stated by the inventor as follows:
Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various
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