Note on an unusual Type of Recuperative Tank Furnace

JSGT 1924 V08 T252-261

The term "unusual" employed in the title of this paper requires definition and perhaps qualification. Recuperators in which the air is pre-heated by passage through a double furnace crown are not entirely novel. Such a system has been experimented by Boucher in France and has also been employed in modified forms in isolated cases in this country. Nevertheless, the comparative rarity of this method of recuperating the air in commercial glass works operation and the inclusion of certain unusual features in the design of the furnace seem to warrant us in employing the term "unusual" in the title.

F. W. Hodkin & W. E. S. Turner