02-27-2011, 08:07 PM
Sumpter250 Wrote:I'd be more likely to expect "stovepipe stacks" for the wood burning stoves, than brick. The drawing states," Chimney on brackets 8" X 8" flue, and also show horizontal lines, with no verticals. I suspect they are wood "boxes" with insulation inside, and the 8 X 8 flues inside the insulation. The interior side view shows a circle, and a rectangle on the "inside" face.
The assemblies sit exactly between wall studs. They could have had two different "feeder pipes", indicating possibly one (round one) for a stovepipe, and one ( rectangular ) to vent something else, possibly what the large ones didn't take care of. the two large round ones were for locomotive exhaust.
Sounds reasonable. I owned an old house that had a chimney that started on the second floor. It had two places to tie in stovepipes and I would guess that the rectangle in the drawing corresponds to the clean-out hatch I had on my chinmey.
This arrangement would allow the stoves to be placed where needed, with "bare" pipes running through the building allowing further heating. My house had several portals between rooms and between floors to allow for this.
Andrew