292 Desaiption of a Kitchen Stove. 



ty, the following account of this stove or closed fire 

 place, with the drawing that accompanies it, which I 

 hope will make it sufficiently intelligible. 



The general principles of this kitchen stove are — 



1. Enclosing it with the pots connected with it, in 

 some covering that is a nonconductor of heat, by which 

 the speedy evaporation of the heat is prevented, and its 

 power concentrated more intensely upon the pots and 

 ovens used in cooking. 



2. Drawing off the fire from the furnace of the stove, 

 through openings in the stove plates, that may be closed 

 at pleasure with sliding dampers, and by means of the 

 covering that surrounds the stove, conveying it round 

 pots set close to these openings, and returning it back 

 upon the ovens for the purpose of encreasing the heat 

 in them. 



3. Allowing the fire to pass into the oven of the stove, 

 through an opening in the bottom plate of the oven im- 

 anediately above the fire, so as to bear ^vith all its force 

 on a tea kettle or any small vessel set hito the oven for 

 the purpose of boiling. 



4. Receiving the heat into a large receptacle of sheet 

 iron placed above the stove, through v/hich it may pass 

 into the kitchen for the purpose of warming it. 



The application of these principles will be easily un- 

 derstood from a more detailed account of the stove 

 with references to the drawing, which presents a front- 

 view, with the pots connected, inclosed in brick work, 

 the only covering that has yet been used as a noncon^ 

 ductor. 



A, B, C, D, is the front plate, which on all sides pro- 

 jects a little over the brick work that is built nearly 



