Furnace accessories part 1

The furnace accessories include: furnace and ash pan doors, grates, cast iron kitchen ovens and plates.

The door. The furnace and ash pan doors can be in a separate frame or in a common frame. For permanent residential stoves, the furnace and ash-pan doors placed in a common frame are the most appropriate. The dimensions of such a door are the most common 330 X480 mm, and the weight over 12 kG.

The door is made of cast iron and closed with beams and bolts. The advantage of the door is that it is carefully ground to the frame, which guarantees hermetic closure by clamping with a bolt through the beam. The furnace door consists of two parts: cast iron outer and inner, inside with chamotte-brick mortar. The purpose of the lining is to protect the external door from overheating and deformation.

In order to prevent falling out, the linings to the inner door are fixed at intervals 11 cm cast iron nails with an extended head, the height of which is adapted to the thickness of the lining. In order to fit the door into the wall of the furnace, the door frame has openings at the four corners, in which the anks are inserted at one end, bent to brick them in the walls of the hearth, and on the other - threaded for screwing with nuts and drawing the door tightly against the walls of the furnace.

The furnace door frame must protrude on three sides 3 cm edge, so that it could be, by inserting the cut fireclay brick there, protect the tiles against hot ones, when burning in the stove, cast iron parts.

The furnace and ash-pan doors of the same construction should also be used for portable tiled storage stoves., in a common frame with dimensions of 260X370 mm and a weight of approx. 8 kG.

In order to fit the door in a portable oven, the frame in the upper corners must have recessed anks with nuts, the lower part of the frame rests recessed into the lower horizontal angle of the furnace frame.

Me should also be used in residential furnaces of furnace doors with flat bars soldered inside, the so-called. "Mustaches" that burn out after a week, and the door falls off.