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2. Draught excluder - Wikipedia

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   A door draught excluder is placed at the bottom of a door to cover the gap located at the threshold. [1] [2] In the Victorian era these draught excluders would be sausage-shaped and made from fabric stuffed with sawdust. [3] Tubular sand-filled fabric draught excluders are commonly referred to as "door snakes" in Australia.

3. Steam locomotive exhaust system - Wikipedia

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   Soon after the power of the steam blast was discovered it became apparent that a smokebox was needed beneath the chimney, to provide a space in which the exhaust gases emerging from the boiler tubes can mix with the steam. This had the added advantage of allowing access to collect the ash drawn through the fire tubes by the draught.

4. Flue-gas stack - Wikipedia

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   A flue gas stack at GRES-2 Power Station in Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan, the tallest of its kind in the world (420 meters or 1,380 feet) [1]. A flue-gas stack, also known as a smoke stack, chimney stack or simply as a stack, is a type of chimney, a vertical pipe, channel or similar structure through which flue gases are exhausted to the outside air.

5. Blastpipe - Wikipedia

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   The steam entrains the smoke from the firebox (c), creating more draft which helps speed the smoke out the chimney (d). The primacy of discovery of the effect of directing the exhaust steam up the chimney as a means of providing draft through the fire is the matter of some controversy, Ahrons (1927) devoting significant attention to this matter.

6. Draft Dodgers: Cheap and Easy Ways to Keep Winter's ... - AOL

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   The Chimney Balloon is a trademarked product designed to serve as a chimney draft stopper. This model is its medium size (24-by-12 inches), created with a handle valve and a proprietary puncture ...

7. Terry Bradshaw Breaks Silence on Backlash Over His 2023 Super ...

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   Terry Bradshaw is taking note.. In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE ahead of Super Bowl LIX, the former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback-turned-NFL broadcaster reflected on the controversial ...