Show How to MAKE an ALARM CLOCK Tend the FURNACE By Ey PAUL SHELDON HEN I was young it fell to my lot to tG W WHEN J tend the family furnace and among the least fond memories of youth are arc thoa of bitter zero mornings when I hopped half-clad half down the cellar stairs to get up heat for the days day's comfort But I solved that problem and in mercy to other boys in the same ame predicament ent I The Automatic Furnace Tender Made with an Ordinary Alarm Clock am am going to tell how I m made de my furnace start itself going for the day so 50 that I was able to get out of bed in a warn warm room The only equipment that will cost any money in rigging up this automatic furnace tender isan is isan isan an alarm clock If you have one that you can can use so much the better The first thing to do is to connect the draught in the front of the furnace with the damper at atthe atthe atthe the back The accompanying drawing shows how that is done The long stick is made of an inch piece of lumber and is fastened to a rail in the 1020 1920 Cew e Service SeMite j ir I L Lt f f f fJ 1 1 r n J k I fV l rafters by a piece of rope All that is necessary is that the stick be hung near the middle and that the ends of the stick come over the damper and the draught Thus the length of the stick or beam will depend on how far apart the damper and draught are Run a string from the end of or the bc beam m over the damper down and tie to the damper handle or wire hole making this string long enough so Tz I i t. t I. I PULLEY T PULLEY PULLEY- STRING 1 f TRIGGER IT F j I P r l I f ill T ALARM WINDER 11 DRAUGHT DRAUGHT i TRIGGER eci L 1 to STOP V I that the stick above will be horizontal when the the damper is shut From th the other end of the stick run run a string or better a small wire do down doan an fast fasten n it to the F c j j 11 i 1 1 draught in front making the string or wire mire long Jong r enough so that one is shut when the other is op open n. n y yAs A As a general thing the damper is heavier than the he draught in front If so BO the damper er will stay d down wn and its weight will hold up the draught at the other end of the stick If tt itis is not heavy enough to do this simply add a f heavy enough to damper string or wire The r wire from the beam to the damper should be bo fixed that it be unhooked in order so can easily that both draught and damper may be closed during J the day aft after r the furnace has lias gotten well weIl under underway way and th the h house is warm Now for the alarm clock Be sure in the r first place that the key which winds the alarm alarm turns round as the alarm goes off Build a shelf about 10 inches square against ia i a post or the wall or in any location ion convenient t to th the furnace Fasten the alarm clock on this shelf by sticks cut slanting on the sides that face each other s so that the legs of the clock will slide I into the sort of groove thus formed A few inches from th the back of the clock fasten fast fast- 0 1 en a block and arid into this drive a large screw eye yr the hole in which will be just opposite and a few inches inches' below the key which winds up the alarm Next cut a three-cornered three stick long enough to pass through the hole in the screw eye and andrest s rest under the key of the alarm as s shown own in the r. r drawing From this stick ick and near the screw eye so as asto as' as I Ito to relieve the clock dock of most of the pull runs the f working string This extends up and through a a c pulley just above and then along parallel to the rafters till it reaches a point over the damper s where it turns around through another pulley 1 S 'S Sand and running down again is tied to the the stick or f beam at about the place where the string runs f up front from the damper J 4 t vJ This string is just long enough so that when the trigger is under the alarm key and through i the screw eye the damper on the furnace is held t. t open J I o This is how the device actually works When I the alarm bell goes off the key starts to turn This releases the stick or trigger which flies flics up by the pull of the string from the damper This pulls the other end of the trigger out of the screw screw 1 eye Down goes the damper at the other end This lifts the draught in front and away goes the fur furnace ur- ur nace pace full tilt bIt J Better than getting up on a 1 col cold morning an and 1 gOI going g d down I into t an IC icy cellar ella isn't I it t J. J t t f Vi J T n t y f k f t. t 7 y J r 11 HI if P PY f t f t H 17 S Y j r K w. w i rr t MS 1 wr J J jj |