Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . Fig. 2196. xxi,^ ,g,_^g tc^- Gas-Tube Socket. Gas Cooking-Stove, Branches 1, 2, .3, 4, 5, from the main ]iipe a arecarried to the upper part of the stove and to the bot-toms of the various interior compartments designedfor roasting, baking, etc. These terminate in cir-cularly arranged tubes, provideil with minute burn-ers, over which the vessel containing the ar


Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . Fig. 2196. xxi,^ ,g,_^g tc^- Gas-Tube Socket. Gas Cooking-Stove, Branches 1, 2, .3, 4, 5, from the main ]iipe a arecarried to the upper part of the stove and to the bot-toms of the various interior compartments designedfor roasting, baking, etc. These terminate in cir-cularly arranged tubes, provideil with minute burn-ers, over which the vessel containing the article to becooked is supported. Fig. 2197 is a heating stove in which the gas isturned on to the perforated to]) of a gas-chamber,and over this a corrugated conical cap is suspendedfrom an upright flue, the product of combustionllowing into and around this ca[) up the tine, andthrougli holes in the side at top, down another Hueas far as the cover of the combustion chamber, andthence through the apertures into and up a thirdflue to the top of stove. The flues are formed byspaces between three cylinders of ditferent diameter;. a plate at the top covering Fig- 2197. the inner flues bus p^erfora-tions over the outer Hue. Fig, 2198 is a gas cooking-stove which has a scpiaresheet-iron stove, to be usedwith a kerosene lamp, or agas-burner, having on eachside an oven for baking, etc.,which is surrounded on allsides, except the outside andends, by a flue, in which theproducts of combustion cir-culate. On the toji of tliestove are holes in which tliecooking utensils are jilaced,and a pan for baking mayalso be placed thereon. Bynuans of dampers the pro-ducts of may beprevented from circulatingheneath the top, and made topass directly out of the chim-ney. On one end of the stoveis a boiler in which to gener-ate steam, which is conveyedoft by pipes to perform vai-ious culinary of mica are let into the stove in various placesto expose thelight and alsoto give a


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