294 Description of a Kitchen Stiwe. 



ing in the stove plate, through which the fire passes 

 round the pot, and proceeds in a flue formed between 

 the brick and the stove plate up the back of the stove, 

 and thence into the flue between the two ovens, and so 

 proceeds up the sides and over the top of the second 

 oven. The opening in the stove plate through which 

 the fire passes to the pot is closed at pleasure, by a dam- 

 per sliding close to the outside of the stove plate, the 

 handle of which projects through the edge of the front 

 plate at R. On the other side of the stove is an ac- 

 commodation of brick work for another pot exactly 

 J^inlilar to what has just been described, only as ap- 

 pears in the drawing two pots of smaller size may be 

 used instead of one. At S, is a small door through 

 which a raker may be inserted for the purpose of clean- 

 ing the flue betAvecn the first and second oven. T is 

 the receptacle or drum of sheet iron, into which the 

 smoke and heat is received on leaving the stove, for 

 warming the house. When this heat is not required in 

 the kitchen, the passage into the drum is closed by a 

 damper turning on centers, the handle of which ap- 

 pears at U, and the smoke is directed in a flue in the 

 upper part of the brick work into the chimney. V, X, 

 is a cast plate that lies flat on the top of the brick work, 

 for the purpose of strengthening it. 



Every person who thinks upon the subject, is sensi- 

 ble of the vast waste of fuel that takes place in cooking 

 at an open fire. The introduction of a ten plate stove 

 is certainly oeconomical, and adds much to the comfort 

 of the kitchen. But still there is both a manifest ex- 

 pense, and trouble in keeping up two fires. One ought 

 to serve all purposes. The sto^'e or closed fire place 



