workpan
A pan that is part of a machine or system that holds the work that the machine or system operates on.
Noun
- A pan that is part of a machine or system that holds the work that the machine or system operates on.
- These racks can be carried about and used as workpans or, because of the brackets on their sides, can be stacked one in the other and so used as bins. - 1948, Transport Management: The British Journal of Trade and...
- To direct each workpan to its correct position, the conveyer pans have been designed with holes at both ends into which pins are inserted. - 1953, Charles Burton Gordy, Production Control, page 243:
- An automatic timer, which initiates the plant cycle, opens the charge and discharge doors of the hardening furnace and raises the dipping gear of the oil quench with its loaded workpan to conveyor level. - 1966,...
Origin
From work + pan.