Q6^ STOVE FOH HEATTffG AND DRYfNn. 



so that it is capable of being applied to many useful purpo- 

 ses, both in domestic economy and the arts : on which ac- 

 count, a silver medal was voted by the Society of Arts to 

 the inventor. The subjoined description, with the annexed 

 Description of plate, will more fully explain its design. 



■ Fig' l. PL VII. Represents a longitudinal section of the 

 stove, showing the course of the air from its entrance into the 

 flues of the stove at A, to its entrance into the upper cham- 

 ber of the stove at B : and also, the course of the smoke frorri 

 the fire-place at C, till it escapes from the stove at D. E, E, 

 are the doors or openings of the fire-place and ash-hole. 



Fig. 2. Is a similar section at right angles with the above* 

 exhibiting the course of the air through the chambers of the 

 stove, from its entrance into the chamber Noj 1. at. B to its 

 entrance beneath the fire-place at F. This figure also shows 

 sections of the flues, with the divisions through which the air 

 and smoke pass separately, the smoke flue in the centre, 

 and the air flues on each side. G, G, are doors and openings' 

 through which the articles to be dried are introduced into 

 the chambers. 



When the fire is lighted, and the doors of the chambers* 

 ash-hole, and fire-place, closed, the air by which the fire is 

 supplied enters at A, Fig. 1, passes through the air-flues a, a, 

 a, a, enters the upper chamber at B, traverses and descends 

 through the chambers No. 1, 2, 3, and arrives beneath the 

 fire at F, Fig. 2. Having supplied the fire with oxigen, it 

 passes through the flue with the smoke, and escapes at D, 

 heating in its protracted course the chambers and air-flues. 

 Its use as a dry- As the cold air enters the stove at A, immediately above a 

 mg hiove, plate forming the top of the fire-place, and pursues a similar 

 route with the fire-flue, it enters the chambers very much 

 heated and rarefied. Hence any moist substance placed in 

 the chambers evaporates, in consequence not only of the 

 heated flues circulating round them, but of a stream of warm 

 rarefied air, which, while it continually causes evaporation, as 

 continually bears away the exhaled moisture in its passage 

 to the fire, thus imitating the gradual and efficacious plan 

 of nature in drying by the sun and air. While these effects 



, . „. are taking place within the stove, part of the air which enters 

 ^tnd m warm- or ' r 



Log-rooms, at A, Fig. 1 and 2, passes through air-flues on the other side 



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