Show protection against furnace heat the protection of workmen from far nace heat as practiced at the menden iron works in westphalia is said to be by meana of i rectangular iron screen hung from an overhead rail which can be made to cover the whole working side of the fernace or can ba pushed aside when not required or when it interferes with the work going on the lower end is bent into a gutter having a slight fall in the direction of its length and the upper edge is provided on the inside that nearest tha furnace with a pipe bored through with small bolea about three quarters of an inch apart which is in connection with th pipe supplying water for cooling the sides of the bed when in use the inside of the place ia kept constantly wet from the supply pipe the small jets trickling down to the cooling bosh at the side a notch at the bottom is left for the passage of the rabble and a short inclined plate is provided for the cinders to run over with these exceptions the whole surface ia screened by the water cooled plate it is said that this arrangement which was first applied experimentally to a few furnaces has worked BO satisfactorily that it has been fitted to au the furnaces in the works named the operatives being thus enabled to work full time even in the hottest weather new york telegram |