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On the Construction of Kitchen 



it unwholesome ; and it will do it with the least trouble 

 and at the expense of the least possible quantity of 

 fuel. 



Description of a Contrivance for warming a Room by 

 Means of a portable universal Kitchen Boiler. 



The following figure represents an elevation, or 

 front view, of the machinery that may be used for this 

 purpose : 



Fig. 47- 



This machinery is very simple. It consists of the 

 portable boiler and fire-place represented in the pre- 

 ceding figure (No. 46), with an inverted cylindrical 

 vessel, constructed of tin or of very thin sheet copper, 

 placed over the boiler. This cylindrical vessel, which I 

 shall call a steam-stove, must be just equal in diameter 

 to the steam-rim of the boiler at the lowest or deepest 



