Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1849-01-05
The Self-Regulator Stove.

number of communications have been re-
ceived, making inquiries in reference TO these
stoves, some OF which we can answer, and some
were more properly addressed to stove-dealers.
''drs not s'orss s35piesss 70 health ?"
As commonly used, ycsi when properly used,
no. Intense heat decomposes the air, and alb
serbs the oxygen, which is its most essential
property for sustaining life. An open FIRE car
res off into the chimney, the air which it de-
composes, while stove heated red-hot, throws
It all into the room. Hence the dry, burning
heat, and consequent headache, so often com
planned Of in rooms heated by stoves. lnhaling
the air Of room heated by red-hot stove is
unqucstonably very injurious to health, and it
arises from the cause above mentioned. This
injurious effect is in a measure, but not wholly
counteracted, by keeping water on the stove.
This injury to the air is not a necessary con-
sequence Of the use Of stoves, hut arise. from =
small and very mistaken economy in the selee-
ton of them,
Many persons purchase a small stove, partly
for the reason that it costs less and partly in the
belief that because creating more intense heat
Immediately about, it produces more warmth
than a larger one. So far is this from being the
case, that the reverse is the truth.
There is no economy, either of health or mon
ey, in the use of small stoves.
Its effect upon health we have already shown,
and it is much more deleterious than is common
ly supposed. Even the skin will become dry
and feverish, after being some time in a room
with red-hot stove, and dangerous colds are
the frequent effect of passing from such room
into the open air.
A stove is too small for room, when it is Of.
ten necessary to make any part of it red-hot, in
order TO warm il.
The difference in cost between large stove
and small one is more than compensated, not
only by the improved quality, but by the greater
quantity of heat, thrown out by large stove,
from the same amount of fuel. The greater IA.
dating surface for heat you have, other thing.
being equal, the more warmth you obtain. The
heat is thrown out into the room, instead of be-
ing carried of in the pipe.
This is more especially true with sheet iron
air-tight stoves, which throw out heat rapidly.
The seIf-rcgulator stove is generally air-tght
or very nearly SO. Of course, the draft is sus
pended, and the heat, instead of escaping thro
the pipe, is most of it thrown out into the room
Hence, with these stoves, ii is not necessary tC
make use of a long pipe to save the heat. Tn,
heat escapes from the whole surface of the stove
and the larger the stove, the less intense III,
warmth of any particular part of it. If thu
stove is so small that it must be kept rcd-hot Il
warm the room, there must also be considerabl,
draft, and much of the heat is carried of, Will,
that which is left is rendered more impure
AS sheet iron stoves become red hot soone
than cast iron, there is greater need of caution
unless they are provided with regulator. 1t j
generally advisable to use as large stoves y con
vcnience will permit.
There is well grounded prejudice agains
the sheet iron alright and other stoves in con.
mon use, owing to the fact that they become O
red heat so easily and so often, and that the,
not only render the temperature unhealthy, bu
are sooner deiaced and burned up. This effec
is unavoidable in common stoves, because
would be impossible to keep constant watch q
them, so as to regulate the draft In the ord
nary use of them, they burn rapidly until III
wood is consumed, or the apartment becomes $
hot that the doors are thrown openi and whe
it becomes uncomiortably cold, the stove is agai
replenished with the like result.
1t ia one of the chief recommendations Ct tn