Show IMPROVEMENT EMENT MADE fADE IN FIREPLACE HEATING EL I I f P 1 1 c J ill illI I f I I ii floe oa 9 ry Nu edA Illustration Showing Construction of Flue From Fireplace to Register on Far Side of Room Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture If It an on opening is made from a fireplace fireplace fire fire- place through the chimney to the outside outside out- out side ide air and arrangements made for warming the Incoming air by passing It t behind and under the fire Into t the room room heating by means of the fireplace fireplace fire fire- place lace can be greatly Improved the United States Department of AgrIculture Agriculture ture ure believes Anyone who has depended upon a fireplace to heat a room knows that the he part of the room farthest from tl tit fire tire Is the coldest and that the temperature temperature temperature temper temper- around the windows Is especially tow low ow The fire must have air and as tracks racks exist around windows and doors the air enters through them The bigger the blaze the greater the quantity of ot outside air drawn Into the room through every crack and crevice until when the outside temperature gets below the freezing point there Is no jo comfort In the room beyond the Immediate vicinity of ot the fire More Effectually Heated It Is obvious that the room will be bemore bemore bemore more effectually heated when the air required for combustion is supplied at a high temperature All our homes should be made fairly tight for greater comfort In winter In such a house with doors and windows closed the i suction caused by the fire can be utilized to draw Into the room outside abr ay supplied directly to the fire and heated as It passes through a metal flue behind the fire or under itA It A simple arrangement may be made for use with an outside chimney and the same Idea may be extended with some modifications to an Inside chim chim- ney A piece of ot galvanized sheet Iron Irons Is s bent to the shape of the back of the fireplace but set into it so as to leave leave an air space between and It-and the back and sides of ot the fireplace An opening to the outside air Is made by r removing movIng ing two or three bricks Air All enters through this becomes heated by contact contact contact con con- tact with the the metal and Is delivered Into the room at the sides of the fire fire- place It Immediately rises within the room gives up part of Its heat and eventually whirls about and into the fire This would not necessarily heat the entire room effectually It would however supply heated air for the fire in volume sufficient to replace or materially ma ma- reduce the quantity of cold air Ir which would otherwise enter through window and door cracks More Elaborate Arrangement Very satisfactory heating can be secured secured secured se se- se- se cured from a fireplace by a more elaborate arrangement The air that thatIs Is brought in through the flue from the outside through the Chimney bricks Is heated at the back of the fireplace and then carried In a metal duct under the floor to a Ii register on the farther side of ot the room A large volume Is discharged discharged discharged dis dis- dis- dis charged out of this register at a high temperature This air all heats the far part of the room and other parts as It travels from the register upward and through the room to the fireplace Thus the fireplace heats the room by convection of heat as well as by radiation radiation radiation radia radia- tion and all parts of the room are more comfortable than when heated by radiation alone Detailed directions for Installing either of these arrangements In a fireplace fireplace fireplace fire fire- place may be found In Farmers Farmers' Bulletin Bulletin Bulletin Bulle Bulle- tin 1230 Chimneys and Fireplaces which is free upon application to the United States Department of Agriculture AgrIculture Agriculture ture Washington D D. C. C |