Description of an ceconomical culinary Stove. 355 



construction of an oven for baking, &c. and an apparatus for 

 heating liquids and drying substances by steam. Having had a 

 simple, and by no means expensive, culinary stove for more than 

 a year in constant use in my own kitchen, which was constructed 

 witliout a knowledge of or reference to any other of a similar 

 kind, is very ceconomical with respect to fuel, and unites great 

 convenience and cleanliness with extent of application, I have 

 thought a description of it may be worthy of your notice. It 

 has been adopted by several of my neighbours, who have expressed 

 themselves much pleased with it; and though the description does 

 not completely solve the inquiries suggested, it may be useful to 

 your correspondent, or otliers who mav choose to make trial of 

 one of a similar construction. 



It is extremely probaijle that somethiisg similar to the appa- 

 ratus I am about to describe may have been employed by otliers; 

 but the skilful direction of heat from a small quantity of fire to 

 our various culinary and domestic purposes is by no means ge- 

 nerally understood; and notwithstanding the exertions of Count 

 Rumford and others, t!ie attention of men of science to this in- 

 teresting and useful subject will most ])robably be still repaid with 

 valuable improvements. 1 venture to hope, therefore, that the 

 present communication will not he without its use in contributing 

 to improve our domestic oeconomy, and diminishing that waste- 

 ful consumption of fuel unavoidable in conducting culinary and 

 domestic processes by an open fire. 



The stove which I am now to submit to your notice projects 

 in front of the ordinary fire-place, which has been built up, the 

 necessary communications with the chimney bcuig preserved. 



The fire-place of the stove is built of bricks ; it is nine inches 

 long in the grate, six inches wide, and seven inches deep. The 

 grate is situated four inches and a half from the door, and the 

 interval is covered witli a plate of iron. The front of the stove 

 as far as the side wall of an oven on the right is covered vvith a 

 plate of sheet-iron 1 -8th of an inch tliick, in which the door- 

 ways are cut, and whicli is secured by stays walled into the brick- 

 work. Over the top of this fire-place a cast-iron plate is laid 

 twenty inches scjuare and 3-Stlis of an incli tiiick. 



From the top of this fire-place a flue for the passageof the heated 

 air passes under the oven, then up the side furthest from the fire 

 till it reaches the top, whence it descends down the back of the 

 oven to the bottom of the side next to the fire, and is continued 

 up that side, and then along the top to the centre, where its 

 escape into the chiuniey is regulated l)y a sliding register. 



The width of the flue round the oven should be about three 

 inches in the part tindjr the oven, and two inches and a half up 

 the side furthest from the fire ; the space at the back of the 



Z 2 oven. 



