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| Keywords: Seven-flue Stack 1834.png A seven-flue stack showing how it would be cleaned by Chimney sweep Climbing boys or with little modification by a human cleaning machine a brush In the diagram A- is a hearth served by vertical flue a horizontal flue and then a vertical rise having two right-angled bends that were difficult for brushes B- is a long straight flue 14in by 9in being climbed by a boy using back elbows and knees C- is a short flue from a second floor hearth The climbing boy has reached the chimney pot which has a diametre too small for him to exit that way D omitted is a short flue from the third floor E shows a disaster The climbing boy is stuck in the flue his knees jammed against his chin The master sweep will have to cut away the chimney to remove him First he will try to persuade him to move sticking pins in the feet lighting a small fire under him Another boy could climb up behind him and try to pull him out with a rope tied round the legs- it would be hours before he suffocated F omitted G How a flue could be straighten to make it sweepable by mechanical means H A dead climbing boy suffocated in a fall of soot that accumulated at the cant of the flue Strange 1982 7 Mechanics' Magazine digitised 4 Oct 1834/ Uploaded 9 May 2011 Clem Rutter Joseph Glass 1834 PD-old Images from The Mechanics Magazine Chimneys Chimney sweeps Drawings of chimneys | ||||
