Cooley's cyclopaedia of practical receipts and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, professions, and trades including medicine, pharmacy, hygiene, and domestic economy : designed as a comprehensive supplement to the Pharmacopoeia and general book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families . on ends of the cartare removed when it is placed in the chamber;so is the handle. It is usual to keep theclothes at the temperature of 250° F. for twohours. There is a trap door 8 inches square about14 inches above the upper edge of the furnace,and on a level w
Cooley's cyclopaedia of practical receipts and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, professions, and trades including medicine, pharmacy, hygiene, and domestic economy : designed as a comprehensive supplement to the Pharmacopoeia and general book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families . on ends of the cartare removed when it is placed in the chamber;so is the handle. It is usual to keep theclothes at the temperature of 250° F. for twohours. There is a trap door 8 inches square about14 inches above the upper edge of the furnace,and on a level with the iron floor of the cham-ber, for disinfectants. Carbolic acid and sul-phur are used ; the former is placed on a flatplate, the latter is sprinkled over the are used as the last, and after that hasbeen the clothes are fit to be used withoutdanger to any one. Elevation ^plcm (fig. 5) shows the front of 570 DISINFECTING CHAMBERS the chamber with the doors closed; the open-ings (Nos. 1, 2, and 3) are for inserting thelong thermometer, which is pushed into theclothing to be disinfected; they correspondwith the three trays. The thermometer can be withdrawn and examined without allowingmuch cold air to enter; plugs fit into thesethree openings when not used for the ther-mometer. Section.—The chamber ia shown about. the centre of its depth; the foul-air shaft(b) passes along the roof down the sidewall, and beneath the fire (c); the openingwhere the fixed thermometer is placed is marked with dotted lines. The damper forthe foul-air shaft (e)js represented as shut,and the damper for the cbimney (f) is alsoshut.
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