Fire-places and Kitchen Utensils. 457 



This figure represents the boiler fixed in its wooden 

 curb and with its cover in its place. 



The first division of the cover (which is 12 inches 

 wide) is laid back on the second (which is 14 inches 

 wide) whenever it is necessary to open the boiler to put 

 anything into it or to take anything out of it, or merely 

 to stir about its contents. When the boiler is to be 

 washed out and cleaned, the opening into it is made 

 larger by throwing back the first and second divisions 

 of its cover, folded one upon the other, and leaning them 

 against the steam-tube which stands upon the third di- 

 vision of the cover, which division is firmly fixed down 

 upon the curb of the boiler by means of wood screws. 



The steam-tube (which should be of sufficient length 

 to carry the steam from the boiler out of the room into 

 the open air or into a neighbouring chimney) may be 

 made of four slips of | inch thick deal boards fastened 

 together (by being grooved into each other and nailed 

 together) in such a manner as to form a hollow square 

 trunk, measuring about \\ inches wide in the clear. 



In setting this boiler in brick-work, the flame and 

 smoke from the fire should be made to act on its bot- 

 tom only, but its sides and ends should be bricked up, 

 in order more effectually to confine the heat. The 

 mass of brick-work should be just 3 feet 8 inches long 

 and 2 feet 8 inches wide, in order that the curb of the 

 boiler may cover it above and project beyond it hor- 

 izontally on every side about i an inch. The bars of 

 the fire-place on which the fuel burns should be situated 

 12 or 14 inches below the bottom of the boiler, in order 

 that the boiler may not be injured when the fire hap- 

 pens by accident or by mismanagement to be made too 

 intense. 



