This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...used, only charcoal. We pay some attention, however, to its better or poorer quality, and for the last fillings we use scarcely anything but charcoal dust. During the beginning of coaling, the dust above the meiler must be kept very loose, and be raked into frequently, so that the steam may easily ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...used, only charcoal. We pay some attention, however, to its better or poorer quality, and for the last fillings we use scarcely anything but charcoal dust. During the beginning of coaling, the dust above the meiler must be kept very loose, and be raked into frequently, so that the steam may easily escape through it. If this is not done the meiler may begin to explode violently. In some places it is customary, during the most dangerous period of sweating, for the purpose of avoiding explosions, to rake away most of the dust on a strip two feet wide around the covering, leaving the dust only three inches thick. When the covering has been coaled, and smoke-vents have been made, the danger of explosion is passed, and then the dust is kept just as thick and solid on the covering as on the sides. The remaining care of the meiler is like that of the Swedish standing meiller described above. Smoke-vents are made and moved as the coaling progresses, but canals are not generally opened, before the coaling has reached the lower tier of billets, about three weeks after kindling the meiler. The advantages of this method of coaling are that the draught along the hearth can be regulated easier and with more certainty, that scarcely any brands are produced excepting from the hearth bridge, and that we do not need brushwood or any corresponding material for thatching, the supply of which, in places where extensive coaling is constantly carried on, at last becomes very expensive. These meilers being generally made very large, so that they contain as much as 9,000 to 10,000 cubic feet solid wood, the consumption of charcoal which takes place in filling seems not to be out of proportion, and the expense of labor and watching ought to be less than with the...
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Used-G. No Jacket. Wiley & Son, New York, 1875, 23 wood engravings, translated from the Swedish by R. B. Anderson. Chipping at spine ends, moderate soiling to red cloth boards. Text is clean. Hardcover/hardback.
