Kiln furniture

Kiln furniture are devices and implements inside furnaces used during the heating of manufactured individual pieces, such as pottery or other ceramic or metal components.

An additional increase of costs comes from wear of the furniture due to thermomechanical and chemical stresses.

[4][5][6] Saggars have been used to protect, or safeguard, ware from open flame, smoke, gases and kiln debris.

[16] Other types of furniture and furniture systems include kiln cars, kiln shelves, batts, tiles, and plates; tubes and beams; props and fittings, profile setters, rollers, stools; T-cranks, Y-cranks, pin cranks.

[17] The design of kiln furniture system depends on the wares manufactured: structural clay products, dinnerware, tiles, electronics ceramics, sanitaryware, electrical porcelain, etc.