. The book of the garden. Gardening. HEATING BY HOT-WATER PIPES. 181 structed of upright tubes placed over the fire, and united together at top and bottom. The furnace bars are hollow tubes through which the return-water passes before entering the upper part of the boiler, thereby causing a very rapid circulation, and being said to pro- duce double the effect from the same quantity of fuel. This highly respectable firm have also recently brought into notice another form of boiler, which they call the saddle- shaped pipe-boiler, with hollow furnace Fig. bars; a representation of it is giv
. The book of the garden. Gardening. HEATING BY HOT-WATER PIPES. 181 structed of upright tubes placed over the fire, and united together at top and bottom. The furnace bars are hollow tubes through which the return-water passes before entering the upper part of the boiler, thereby causing a very rapid circulation, and being said to pro- duce double the effect from the same quantity of fuel. This highly respectable firm have also recently brought into notice another form of boiler, which they call the saddle- shaped pipe-boiler, with hollow furnace Fig. bars; a representation of it is given in the annexed cut. They very properly assert that such tubular boilers are not only powerful in their effects, but also that this power of heating is attained with a considerable economy in fuel, while the house to be acted upon, is heated with greater rapidity than by any boiler of a different construction. Fig. 235 shows the plan, and fig. 236 the section. Fig. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original McIntosh, Charles, 1794-1864. Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood
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