Seg′gar; Sag′gar.
（
Pottery.) An open box of clay, which receives articles of plastic clay or in the biscuit condition, and protects them while being baked in the kiln.
The
seggars, with their contents, are placed one above another in the kiln, the bottom of one forming the cover of the one below it. See pottery-kiln.
The
seggars vary in size and shape with the form and proportions of the contained ware.
Seggars are made of fire-clay and old ground seggars molded into the shape required and baked.
The articles are supported in the seggars by rings, ridges, or studs of fire-clay.
In some cases the pieces rest one on another.
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Seggars. |
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Seggars in the kiln. |
A kiln holds 30,000 average pieces inclosed in their seggars, a cylindrical pile of which is called a
bung.
Fig. 4817 shows seggars for dishes and plates; they consist of a series of rings, and the plates rest on pins.
The term is one belonging to the potteries, and is variously spelt
seggar, saggar, segger, sagger.
