The philosophy of domestic economy; as exemplified in the mode of warming, ventilating, washing, drying, & cooking, and in various arrangements contributing to the comfort and convenience of domestic life, adopted in the Derbyshire General Infirmary, and ... in several other public buildings / [Charles Sylvester].

  • Sylvester, Charles
Date:
1819
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Credit: The philosophy of domestic economy; as exemplified in the mode of warming, ventilating, washing, drying, & cooking, and in various arrangements contributing to the comfort and convenience of domestic life, adopted in the Derbyshire General Infirmary, and ... in several other public buildings / [Charles Sylvester]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2, but is a flat cast, metal plate and constitutes the bot- tom of a recess which the door D closes. The top side of the cockle is for heating the irons employed in get- ting up the linen. The sides of the cockle, the form of which is a pararellopipedon or an elongated cube, are surrounded with iron pipes t, t, similar to those in the large stove ; these tubes are inserted into a narrow wall which separates the cavity K from that immediately round the cockle. The cold air ascends from a subterraneous pas- sage below My which communicates with the outer air ; it then enters the tubes t> t, &c. and strikes the sides of the heated cockle; thus heated it rises into the hot air chamber Plate 3, and passes into the hot closet which contains the horses d, d, d, and also the linen to be dried. The entrance into this closet is by a door IV, which is shut during the time of drying. Along the closet and also along the floor of the laundry run the ribs of cast metal b, b, b, b, b, these are for the horses d, d, d, to run upon. Plate 1, Fig. 1, is a side view of the horse; W, n, are cast iron wheels with grooves to run upon the ribs b, Plate 4 ; each horse has two wheels behind at n, and one before at W. Every horse has five tier of rails one above another, 4 of these being double, making the whole nine rails; these are for hanging clothes upon. The horses it will appear are drawn out into the laundry for the purpose of loading and unloading ; when the horse is quite out, the back end comes to the front and closes the aperture, preventing cold air from entering the closet. Each end of the horse is kept steady by the guide g, in the ceiling. When all the horses are in the closet they con- stitute its front, and fit perfectly. As the hot air cools.
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