The Frame Boiler Cover.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 6, 2 April 1906, Page 134

The Frame Boiler Cover.

Our illustration shows a most ingenious contrivance invented by Mrs. Frame, of Oamaru, for the purpose of obviating the inconvenience caused through steam arising from washing coppers^when boiling clothes The " Frame " cover (a) is conical m shape and fits closely down upon the top of the washing boiler. The upper part of the cover is connected to a tube (b) which slides telescopically in another tube (c) leading into the furnace chimney or through the roof of the building. The cover is counterbalanced by weights (d) attached to the ends of cords (c), passing over the guide pulleys (f). The cover can thus be drawn down upon the boiler, as shown m dotted lines in our illustration, to carry away vapour arising from the boiling clothes, or it can be raised as shown m full lines in the drawing to give free access to the boiler. The invention appears to fill a want long experienced in many households, and we expect to see some enterprising firm of manufacturers take the invention up and place it upon the market.