By the judicious arrangement of the fire-place, and the throat and flue of a chimney, an upward current may be constantly ensured so long as there is a fire in the grate, or the air of the apartment is warmer than the external atmosphere.
Great care is required in the process, as the flue of the feather is apt to be destroyed, if kept too long in the bath.
In the flue (C) there are openings at D, D, D, for the purpose of cleaning it.
Footnote 354: In the flue dust of the zinc furnaces it is present to the amount of about 0.
The entire apparatus stands on a flue leading from the furnace.
Next take off all the lids, and sweep all the soot carefully out; once or twice a week the flue pipe must be taken off and cleared out, also the flues under the oven.
A fire-brick flue runs down the centre of the bottom of the furnace, and is connected at the far end with two return metal pipes, which lie on each side of the flue.
It is heated by a flue below the iron floor passing round 3 sides of the chamber and up a chimney.
To avoid this the offensive vapours should always be carried by a flue made for the purpose into the furnace-fire, and there consumed.
The construction of the furnace in which two retorts are usually placed, permits the flame of the fire at O to play round the cylinders before reaching the flue leading to the chimney F.
At the entrance of the cold air flue there is a damper, by which the temperature of the air may be regulated.
H, The incoming air preheated by G and by the pipes N and brought from above G to between N by a flue not shown.
When I mount up to my bedroom, a smell of closeness and flue gets lazily up my nose like sleepy snuff.
This is the first fire-box andflue boiler of which we have record.
The flue had a length of 24 feet, and was about 10 inches square.
Its boiler was dome-shaped, of copper, and contained a large central fire-box and a spiral flue leading outward to the chimney.
A cylindrical boiler, having one flue traversing it longitudinally, is called a Cornish boiler, as it is generally supposed to have been first used in Cornwall.
Several sheets in the flue have "pockets" worked into them, which pockets project into the flue-passage.
This engine had too small a boiler, and he soon after built a larger engine, with a return-flue boiler made of wrought-iron.
Papin made another boiler having a flue winding through the water-space, and presenting a heating surface of nearly 80 square feet.
The flame from the fire on the grate, H, passes under the boiler between brick walls, and back through a central flue to the chimney, I.
A flue is constructed with the clay above the closed end of the barrel, which is then burned out with a hot fire.
Four such trenches radiating from a common central chimney will give one flue for use whatever may be the direction of the wind.
No sheet metal, brick, or otherflue shall be used as a vent pipe.
All gas heaters must be connected with a flueto carry off the products of combustion.
To a house of, say fifty feet, the propagating bench may be, say twelve feet long, and the room below it and around the flue should be inclosed with boards, as it will keep the heat better.
The flue should rise rather abruptly from the furnace, say about a foot; it can then be carried fifty feet with, say six to nine inches rise, and still have sufficient draft.
This gives the flue four inches by eight in the clear.
How gleefully she must have chuckled as she waited for the flue to fill and send the smoke ebbing back into the library, to the discomfiture of her aunt and sister and the suitors gathered about the hearth!
A fire smouldered lazily in the great fireplace; there was, in the room, the faintest scent of burnt wood; but the smoke rose in the flue in a perfectly mannerly fashion, and on thrusting in my hand I felt a good draught of air.
I seized the tongs and poker and began readjusting the logs, without, however, any hope of correcting a difficulty that lay patently in the upper regions of the flue itself.
I did n't suppose Pepperton would put a flue like that into a house.
This required a little time; but the house man obeyed me readily, and soon, clad in my professional overalls and jumper, I was going carefully over the flue whose behavior had been so unaccountable the previous night.
Commend me to an open fire, with a flue that knows its business, and a dream or two!
It was a manner I had cultivated to meet the surprise and gratitude of my clients when I had brought a seemingly incurable flue into a state of subjection.
Pepperton would never have built them otherwise, and no one but a skilled mason could have tapped the library flue here or higher up, and the work could not have been done without much noise and labor.
Her doors were closed, but I knew from my examination in the morning that the flue of her fireplace tapped the chimney that rose from the drawing-room, and had nothing whatever to do with the library chimney.
There was absolutely no way of choking the library flue at this point, for, as I had established earlier, all the fireplaces in this chimney had their independent flues.
He knew as well as I did that with ordinary care every flue in that house would have drawn splendidly.
From my survey of the flue on my arrival in the afternoon, I judged that this particular chimney had been little used.
Please observe that the flue is drawing splendidly now," I answered.
Scraps offlue were in the creases of the coat, which showed plainly the dust that filled it.
The two fluids dropped through the funnel on to a piece of pipe which caused them to splatter; oil soaked rags were used to start the combustion and then the flames quickly roared along under the steel plate and up the flue pipe.
On top of these was a steel plate that carried a funnel at its front and a flue pipe at its rear; the funnel was fed through small pipes from two cans, one containing water and the other containing discarded engine oil.
An excess of chimney draught, in cases where a flue is necessary, may pull in sufficient excess of cold air to almost neutralize the whole power of the burner, unless a damper is used with judgment.
The reason for having a number of stoves at intervals is that the heat in a flue will not carry, for any useful purpose, more than about 8 ft.
This is a most important consideration, and if there is any cause, such as a stove, or fire-place connected with the same fluewhich cuts the draught, it must be removed.
If attached to the same flue as a furnace or stove, the latter must be entirely cut off when the fires are out in the summer.
The top of the flue or ventilator is closed with straw in really cold weather.
At the South one of the several methods of winter storage is to build a light wooden flue of lattice work, and pack about it a conical-shaped heap containing about forty or fifty bushels of sweet potatoes.
These manure-heated houses are often very efficient, and are a good make-shift until such time as the gardener can afford to put in flue or pipe heat.
For some distance from the furnace, this flue may be made of brick or unvitrified sewer pipe, but stove-pipe may be used for the greater part of the run.
Seppi the cowboy (an ancestor, by the way, of Buffalo Bill) went down before a tremendous blow by Friesshardt, and Leuthold knocked Klaus von der Flue head over heels.
And in the night Kabibonokka piled the snowdrifts high about the lodge of Shingebis, and shook the lodge-pole and wailed around the smoke-flue until the flames flared and the ashes were scattered on the floor.
In all instances pass the first flue to the front of the house, over which have a close shelf eight inches clear, covered with two inches of sand, and by keeping it moist will afford a very congenial heat to young valuable plants.
Any part of the furnace or flue that is under the floor of the house, should have a vacuity on both sides to let the heat pass upward.
This flue is only about 6 or 7 feet in height and, together with the water spray F and the baffle plates DD, constitutes the humidity-control feature of the kiln.
Here the column of cooled air descends into the spray flue B, where its velocity is increased by the force of the water spray.
Besides regulating the humidity the spray F also acts as an ejector and forces circulation of air through the flue B.
This spray completely saturates the air in the flue B at whatever predetermined temperature is required.
In the form shown in the sketch a chamber or flue B runs through the center near the bottom.
In both rooms the chimney flue extended well out from the wall.
The opening had been made between the flue and the outer wall of the house.
She knew when it was coming; for Kami would gather his black alpaca coat into a bunch behind him, and, with faded flue eyes that saw neither pupils nor canvas, look back into the past to recall the history of one Binat.
She then did her hair with her fingers, and rubbed her bonnet in the flue under the bed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flue" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
