smoke-preventer

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A device designed to prevent the incomplete combustion of carbon which causes the formation of smoke. Such devices, to be successful, must furnish an adequate supply of oxygen, and keep both air and gas at a temperature high enough for chemical combination to be complete. This combination also must have room enough and time enough to be complete before the temperature falls below the temperature of combustion and ignition. See smoke-burner and smoke-consumer.