The kitchen fire and how to run it. A manual for the housewife showing how to save coal, gas, labor and health (1912)
Wright, Samuel Seward. [from old catalog] · [Scranton · leaf 42
s also are usually suppliedwith internal dampers, sometimes called oven dampersor smoke dampers, and which are designed to ])reventthe heat (waste gases) from passing directly from thefire to the smoke pipe flue and from thence into the HUW TO RUN \T :••> chimney. Such dampers close the opening… … The oven or smoke damper in the illustration is open and theheat and gases pass directly into the smoke pipe and chimney wherethey are lost. Still another form ot a damper is frequently installedin the face of the first length of smoke pipe, which isusually oblong in sha])e. a short distance above…
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