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"XXXVI. Description of an Improved Siove fnr Heating 

 Rooyns, or Drying different Jriicles. Bi/ j\lr. George 



FlELQ *. 



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X HAVE the honour of enclosing- a plan and account of a 



stove, which unites the various advanjiag^s of heating, boil- 

 ing, ^teaming, evaporating, dryingj^.ventilating, &:c These, 

 together v.ith a certificate and mod''! oi' the siove, I beg the 

 favouF-of you to lay before the SocietY- 



I have the honour to be 



Your most obedient servant, 



Geo. Fi'^LD. 



No. 57, Newman-street, March II, ISOii. 



To Dr.-C. Tciylor, 

 Secretary, &c. 



' . Fig. 1 . (Plate VI.) represents a longitudinal section of the 

 stove, showing the course of the air from its entrance into 

 the flues of the stove at A, to its entrance into the upper 

 chamber of the stove at B : and also the course of the smoke 

 from the fire-place at C, till it escapes from the stove atD. 

 E, E, are the doors or openings of the fire-place and ash- 

 hole. 



Fig. 9. is a similar section at right angles with the above, 

 exhibiting the course of the air through the chambers of the 

 gtove, from its entrance into the chamber No. 1. at B to its 

 entrance beneath the fire-place at F. This figure also shows 

 Sections of the flues, with the divisions through which the 

 air and smoke pass separately, the smoke-flue in the centre, 

 and the air-flues on each side. G, G, are doors and openings 

 through which the articles to be dried are introduced into the 

 chanvbers. . 



When the fire is lighted, and the doors of. the chaoibecst, 

 ash-hole, and fire-place, closed, the air by which the fire 

 is supplied enters at A, fig. 1, passes through the air-flues 

 a, a, a, a, enters the upper chamber at B, traverses and de- 

 scends through the chambers No. 1, 2, 3, and arrives bc- 



* From Transactions of the Socii-Mi of ^/tfts, £cc. — The silver laeJal was 

 voted to Mr. Field for this improvemeni. 



f> neatli 



