coal chute
Fuel delivery passage
A coal chute is a sloped channel or shaft for transferring coal from street level down to a basement storage area.
Common in older buildings from the era of coal heating, coal chutes allowed delivery workers to pour coal directly into the cellar without entering the house: The old brownstone still has its original coal chute.
- basementSubterranean building level
- furnaceEnclosed heat-producing structure
- hopperTapered dispensing container
- slideSmooth continuous movement
- deliveryConveyance of goods
delivery man · soot · cellar · bin · hatch · basement door · shovel · dusty · clanking · trapdoor · boiler · heating system · stoker · black · grate · cast iron · iron · tunnel
- basementsbasement stairs, basement walls, basement door, basement bar, finished basement
- chutesflume, emergency slide
- Vintage Householdicebox, washboard, wringer, butter churn, wood stove
- coalanthracite, bituminous, lignite, slack, culm
- coal industrystrip mining, anthracite, underground mining, coke, lignite
- railway infrastructurerailway station, train station, platform, tracks, rails
direction of material flow
coal chutechimney
Vertical smoke passage
flue · smokestack · exhaust vent · chimney stack · garbage chute
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