Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1883 — The Russian Stove. [ARTICLE]

The Russian Stove.

The Russian stove is made of fire, resisting porcelain, is always ornamental, and frequently a highly artistichandsome article of furniture. Internally it is divided by thick fire-clay walls into several upright chambers or flues, usually six in number. Some dry firewood is lighted in a suitable fire-place, andL is supplied with only sufficient air to effect combustion, all of which enters below arid passes through the flue. The production of •combustion being thus undiluted with unnecessary cold air, are very highly heated, and in this state pass up compartment No. 1. They are then deflected and pass down No. 2, up No. 3, down through No, 4, again up No. 5 and down No. 6. At the end of thie long journey they have given up most of their heat to the twenty-four heat-absoibing surfaces of the fire-clay walls. Then all communication with the chimney is cut off, the fire is put out, hiving done its work, and the interior of the stove has bottled up its caloric ready for emission into the room, and, passing through the nonconducting walls of the stove, is radi ated into the apartments.