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what is sold in the shops under that name. The retail 

 price of this grate, with its fender and trivet, is ten 

 shillings and sixpence. The Carron Company entered 

 into an engagement with me to furnish them by whole- 

 sale to the trade, delivered in London, at seven shillings 

 and sixpence. A front view of this grate may be seen 

 in the next figure. As this figure (Fig. 89) is designed 

 merely for showing where the different parts of the 

 apparatus are to be placed, and not how they are to 

 be fitted up, none of the details of the setting of the 

 roaster or boiler were in this place attempted to be 

 expressed with accuracy. Information respecting those 

 particulars must be collected from other parts of the 

 work. 



The grate represented in this figure is calculated for 

 boiling a pot or a tea-kettle, and for heating flat-irons 

 for ironing. Its bottom is so contrived as to be easily 

 taken away and replaced. By removing it at night, or 

 whenever a fire is no longer wanted, the coals in the 

 grate fall down on the hearth, and the fire immediately 

 goes out. This contrivance not only saves much fuel, 

 which otherwise would be consumed to waste, but it is 

 also very convenient on another account. As all the 

 coals and ashes fall out of the grate when its bottom is 

 removed, on replacing it again the grate is empty and 

 ready for a new fire to be kindled in it. 



The top of this grate, which is a flat piece of cast 

 iron, has one large hole in it for allowing the smoke 

 to pass upwards, and another behind it, which is much 

 smaller, through which it is forced to descend into what 

 has been called a diving-flue, whenever the boiler be- 

 longing to this fire-place is used, which boiler is 

 suspended in a hollow cylinder of sheet iron, about 



