A practical treatise on chimneys : containing full directions for preventing or removing smoke in houses. ... / [James Anderson].

  • James Anderson
Date:
1777
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Credit: A practical treatise on chimneys : containing full directions for preventing or removing smoke in houses. ... / [James Anderson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On SMOKY CHIMNEYS. 69 doors, if the fere7/ were made to rife more hid¬ den ly. The locks were made with weak well-tempered fprings, which eafily yielded to the preffure of the door, and fhut without any fort of violent or clank¬ ing noife. ' \ ‘ J. • ' ' /if * j r ] i f J 4 C- i- l.. • i. > •* J '& j K 4 -i- I cannot imagine any contrivance of a hinge more perfectly adapted for convenience and utility than the above; and it appears to me not a little ex¬ traordinary, that an invention pofleffed of fo many advantages, fhould have ever been allowed to fink into oblivion. One would imagine, that the luxury of modern times, which fo greedily fearches for every ^refinement, would not have negleCted this one. :j trmo] ]} - . ]: nm y.-i Ar^ \o mstgii wo-.op How many inventions have -been made for do* fmg the doors of delicate perfons;—but in vain] — ^ The top and fides are covered with lifts of cloth, to prevent the fifting airs;—but the bottom is never perfectly clofed.——-Fafhion fays, the floor muft be ftraight;—no bar muftcome acrofs to clofe it from without*—r-the carpet muft not be difturbed within. / » r. The common contrivance, for making the door to lwim a little as it opens, is auk ward and clumfy indeed, in comparifon of this one: for by this fafhion of hinge, it is very practicable to make the door prefs with its whole weight upon the floor when it is fhut, fo as perfectly toexclude the air, by