His co-founder Conrad Dressler, himself a sculptor and inventor of the
tunnel kiln, a method of firing pottery that revolutionised the pottery industry, was mainly responsible for the decorative architectural panels, many of which can still be seen in Birkenhead and Liverpool, as well as in local museums.
There were test kilns, large gas kilns as well as an enormous
tunnel kiln, which ran 24x7 and was used to fire bricks and tiles.
His co-founder was patron of the arts Conrad Dressler (1856-1940) himself a sculptor and inventor of the
tunnel kiln, a method of firing pottery that revolutionised the industry.
In the other design, known as a
tunnel kiln, conveyors loaded with bricks travel through a long, straight passage.
The exclusive "Tech Speak" section also covered some technical details of India's longest DRI
Tunnel Kiln (194m).
"We are installing a high-temperature
tunnel kiln that will exceed the capacity of our existing kiln by 10%," he said.
George Cartlidge's portrait tile of Conrad Dressler, who designed the revolutionary continuous
tunnel kilnIn 1949, the factory introduced the first gas-fuelled
tunnel kiln in France operated 24 hours a day, a standard in most modern factories today.
'You took on this job of demolishing a
tunnel kiln when, bluntly, you were out of your depth, and you set on that task a thoroughly decent workman and his young, inexperienced son, who also were out of their depth.' The court heard how Dean, who denied two counts of manslaughter during an earlier trial, had been contracted to demolish the kiln on behalf of tile-makers Daniel Platt Ltd, of Tunstall, near Stoke.
The briquettes are coked through a
tunnel kiln at 1800-2000F (982-1093C) in an inert atmosphere.