Transactions . a, fire-place; b, retort, holding 2000 pounds; c, condenser onsmall wagon; d, flue; e, supports for retort; /, fire-doors; g, fire-bridge ; h, gas-escape, at one side, and near bottom of condenser,with movable cover for cleaning condenser, etc.; i, iron beams, rest-ing on shaft k, on which the whole furnace is tilted by means of achain at I, running over a sheave above, or by means of a screw andscrew wheel-sector, attached to furnace. The furnace is heavily armed with cast-iron plates and cross-pieces. The same apparatus can, by slight alterations, be adapted to gasfire. In thi
Transactions . a, fire-place; b, retort, holding 2000 pounds; c, condenser onsmall wagon; d, flue; e, supports for retort; /, fire-doors; g, fire-bridge ; h, gas-escape, at one side, and near bottom of condenser,with movable cover for cleaning condenser, etc.; i, iron beams, rest-ing on shaft k, on which the whole furnace is tilted by means of achain at I, running over a sheave above, or by means of a screw andscrew wheel-sector, attached to furnace. The furnace is heavily armed with cast-iron plates and cross-pieces. The same apparatus can, by slight alterations, be adapted to gasfire. In this case the grate is lowered about a foot, and provided 324 METHOD OF TREATING BY DISTILLATION with under and over-blast, from hot-blast pipes arranged in the flue,d. The top-wind, to ignite the gases, would have to enter in jetsarranged across the inner edo;e of the fire-brido-e. The better way, however, proposed by Mr. Faber du Faur, is to Fig. 33. ^^^f^^^^^^^W^^^^^^^^^^^W^^^^^^^^^. Fig. 34.
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