Show f f f f 44 11 1 sAt If AN INGENIOUS NEW HEW Ii I BOX FOR STOVES 1 r. r Need w t Invented neni q by 0 r f for r r t t the Control Better e. e Better of Ct th the f t v i fi In n the accompanying nYI engraving Is isi t i illustrated d a novel device which Is applicable applicable ap ap- to to rang ranges s Stoves and open i grates acid which alms alms' to provide a ai i t. t better control of the dr draft ft than has heretofore been possible thus effecting a saving l In fuel The device has the f form forms of a box smaller at the top ton than at the bottom The rear of the box box Is isi i left open open while the other three sides are formed of Inclined d walls provided with long vertical long vertical ap apertures The bottom bottom bottom bot bot- a tom of the box Is provided with a slid slid- plate ing-plate plate the purpose of which will be presently presently explained The air box as the device is termed is placed on the grate of a stove to which it I is secured by means of bolts It thus takes up most of the space usually occupied by bythe the fuel The rear of the air box fits closely against the rear wall of 1 the he firebox but a narrow space is left lell on the other three sides to receive the fuel By this means the area of the theE E fire Aire is gre greatly Uy increased while the ith depth is s reduced Air passes up from r the grate into the box and thence f through the apertures to the fire The plate at the bottom of of t the e air box s serves as a damper damper which can Cn be b moved d in or or but out t to control the amo amount of air fed led Ito tor t the fi fire fire Ow Owing to to theof the the- s1 of the fire and tha gen general ral distribution i of i ar lr a. a v combustion combus combus- tion iron of of the tu fuel Js is assured In proof of the value val e of the air box b ox It I is pointed v s NEW AIR BOX FOR sroy STOVES out by by the Scientific Scientific American that there is a material reduction in the amount mount of smoke from from a stove supplied supplied supplied sup sup- plied with this this device The Inventor inventor of the air box is a New Zealand woman wom woman wom- wom an M Miss ss B. B J. J Moua |