Factory chimneys

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1883
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 60 KB
• Volume: 116
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(83)90138-2

✦ Synopsis

Factory Chimneys.--It is well known that the round form is the best tbr the ehim~:eys of taetories and workshops. It facilitae,s the escape of the smoke, and gives less hold fbr the wind, besides requiring less material tbr construction. I{ound chimneys, however, are more difficult to buihl, so that in some places the want of workmen who are skilled in this [dnd of construction leads to the adoption of a square or octagonal section. In order to facilitate the erection of round chimneys, M. Houzen, of Niiremberg, prep'ires materials cut in the fbrm of' wedges, eorrespondlng with the radius which the chimney is to have, so that the construction presents no kind of difficult),.-