Chimney
A chimney is a funnel-shaped hood over a free or open fire.
Function and nature
It is used to guide the smoke gases , which in certain concentrations are quite harmful to health, into the chimney . They are usually over open fires or on the Esse in forging appropriate. Mostly made of metal, very rarely also of stone, they protect people in the corresponding room from possible smoke poisoning , as they suck in and discharge the gases from the fire over a larger area.
history
Orders from Count Palatine Karl IV. From 1772 also served to prevent a fire in connection with domestic fireplaces. According to the simultaneous building regulations, no more wooden chimneys were allowed to be erected, no more wooden hoses were allowed to be installed, which had to lead the smoke from the fireplace to the fireplace, just as it was forbidden to lead stovepipes out of the window.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chimney. In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 16. Leipzig 1908. zeno.org, p. 628 , accessed on November 16, 2014 .
- ^ Franz-Josef Sehr : The fire extinguishing system in Obertiefenbach from earlier times . In: Yearbook for the Limburg-Weilburg district 1994 . The district committee of the Limburg-Weilburg district, Limburg-Weilburg 1993, p. 151-153 .