When the motor is running properly, the amount of water fed to the vaporizer and overflowing to the ash-pit is properly adjusted.
The furnace is formed in three pieces; a dome, a body, and an ash-pit.
The holes of the grate are truncated cones, having the greater base below, that the ashes may more easily fall into the ash-pit.
She could not rest until she had thoroughly cleaned; so she went down to the ash-pit with her dustpan.
Dead-platesSolid sheets of steel on which the fire lies the same as on the grates, but with no openings through to the ash-pit.