New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-08-08
'ery truly,
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 2, 1859.


E.E. KITTREDGE.
Dear sr-Hayng been engaged Dr. Kittredge: plants
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Within Eta Re past ioar years
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sufficient supply Of boilers will consume .he Bagssse
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my conviction hst furnace is the best have
Yours, respectfully. . 5..
CHARLES NEAMEs, Engineer.
ELM HALL PLANTATION, Feb. 4, 1859
sHavng been engaged as engineer sugar panta.
@ take e eight dIn
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fsei confident HAT your furnace With supply q
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recommending furnace all who have occasion to
use them yours 4 ids's. H. JONES, Engineer
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patent desired an early 70 show The planters
to With Eager Asnn and
the Commissioner Of Patents trial Of conflicting cams
Ger Joseph Holt ESQ then Comm ssOnsr e P.,ens
ing is an extract and closing paragraph. He says:
Regarding the invention fully perfected and in
cessfu operation October 1884, Weeds place. 1t tried
experientay earlier period Gosset Johnsons plan
taon Thompson had satisfactorily tested his invention
and found that with the substitution Of fire brick for Iron
CRATE bars capable Of performing all that he claimed
for IT. believing the that neither Hager Aynns
nor Thompsons claim is limited the material employed that
finding contract entered into for the
erection of Hage Aynn furnaces prior to the latter
part December 1884, priority of invention hereby awarded
Moses Thompson and patent will issue accordingly
J.HOLT Commissioner"
Letter from Prof. B. silsn. Jr., concerning Mr. Moses
Thompson's Baggasse Furnace.
New Haven, Ct, June 4, 1853.
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foE the s burning Of wet fuels l. ~, :, ~.
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had 70 for 1T this fuel
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the i is nowhere Of gtea. value in all the
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Of and av Is Literal copies
the alone merits merits the a a
for himself problem chemical and
pretensons to Scientific owedEe and earnestly trust he
be allowed receive both the hon9rs and the pecuniay
| great favors on mankind.
Professor Of General and Applied Chemistry in Yale College
| BOSTON, June6 1859.
SRI have exsa ned the following patents furnaces fol
burning bagasse and other wet fuel u, M. 80,
t. hs'si stssi 81. Ssfs Noses Thompson 10th April
s: ad l Mes pss granted H'ger Allyn May 1856
81 Letters ps,sn. granted Shelley Jqns 18th ISIS
1855 resued August :, 1856 H. '"'n december
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mehod 81 @ Of and wet
and
mt the being united in chamber songeu
combustion Of the other This also
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6h 1885, clear and apabe infringement Of Thompson'
patent The fuel Is first dried and consumed the
from that portion which is being dried being mixed with
together The passage ee Hagar and Ayn's draw
ng and The beneath the boilers the pans mmediate
connected with this forming the mixing combustio
chamber, in which the gases are consumed.
In sn asa s a oh h
burned but idencay the operation is carried as
Thompson furnace While the lower portion hea
being burned the portion being dried and
united mixing chamber and consumed the operation as
Thompsons furnace being continuous This furnace
fore, clear infringement Of the Thompson patent.
In the furnace described in Gmans patent December 4
1856 continuously into single
chaber but the drying and burning continue su
and heatsd air generated all thrown together into cham
Der tB of Gman drawings where they mixed and
sumed This therefore undoubted nrjpgemer
| Of Thonpsoa's patent,