New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-23

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49,, MYRTLE GROVE November 18th, 1857.
Gent favor of the 18th is at hand and in
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the we made in our letter Mr. Thompson
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@@ Your obe1isnt servant,
JOHN L. WHITE
s1TH TRUFANT.
ELM HALL, January 49, 1852
To Ne ses Thompson, Esq ~
operation during present rolling and an now ead Of d.
opportunity Of saying TO you has performed equal my
consider it capable of efecng perfec. combustion
any II viii burn the Sasasse from
any Of cane ground ant make heat and
heat as fast a made. N'' INV
that other form of furnace compare in eeeney
with yours
E. f. KITTREDGE.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. q 1885,
Dear sr-Having been engaged Dr. Kttredges planta
o9 n ~ The FL Of 5 as
Haser Allyn ees IL nj S S
each 10 IL n syny %
aee has @ e wSE aR either Of s other fur
fire or heat and furnishes than thought
with your furnace applied to the kieux apparatus with
per twenty eR hoars and ID Vii shff fu
in twenty hours make the above number Of hhd IN
s hours therefore take pleasure expressing
seen in use and can all who desire convert
Yours, respectfully.
CHARLES NEAMEs, Engineer.
sr~Havns engaged as engineer on sugar planta
nj Dah had
sion crops Bagasse furnaces Of deren kids
hRns ire far fHS s4ssr Of + po
bo sel a s9Td s hs YIN
a If
uss he all who may have occasion
~ ~ THos. H JONES, Engineer.
In 1856 Messrs Hager Aynn obtained patent and in that
year and 1857 they Furnaces which nfrnged my
anquesoabe rights notified and Cautioned Them nc
Of our esn
Testimony taken BY both parties md submitted Off
ss Which i hs Follow sR
ing is an extract and closing paragraph. He says:
Regarding then the invention fully perfected and In sue
expemenaly earlier pero Gossett Johnson plan
ation where Thompson had satisfactorily tested his Invention
and found that with the substitution Of fire brick iron
CRATE bars it capable of performing all that he claimed
for it, believing for the that neither Hager Aynns
nor Thompsons claim is limited to material employed tina,
each actual substitution mmater the question at ISSUE
and finding that entered into for the
erection of of Hager Ann furnaces prior to the latter
part of December 1854 priority of invention hereby awarded
to Moses Thompson, and patent will issue accordingly
], HOLT, Commissioner
Letter from Prof. b. sliman IT,. concerning Mr., Noses
Thompson's Baggasse Furnace.
Nav n. ivan YALE i, Go, Co.IzG Fla
have had occasion to examine with boil the the
and the actual workings Of Mr. Moses Thompsons Furnace
In 1927 Mr. Thompson built for Of his furnaces de-
whssi WAS a, hsR !" ~
had occasion furnace fer his particular FUEL He0fe
worked better than had expected well enough satisfy
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W ~ h wss wanting = fec Mr. Thompson
tn dapng he b of
Mr. Thompsons furnace was capable Of burning peat just
THE s At ss sss e II s il 9 Of lis
not po only to keep steam horse
fuel expense with sraee ees or woo n
where wood was worth 81 cord delivered and coal
nab naye given yes detail
am Ss1S o
that Mr. J. has made discovery ofgleat Fraction Importance
growing countries where The of bagae
been M az ns while
Of his ode Of wet fuels have cared since he FIRST
strcng furnace for burning fuels, both correct in theory
and a. uss ThIi in practice IL ,oa..,
and powerful mind who With sm. advantages edncaon
steal which taed mary oher inventors Of far grssr
pretensions scientific Knowledge and earnestly trust he
be allowed to receive both the oos the pecunjnry
rewards which belong to those who by genius
great fsrors mankind.
q. sILLIMAN. JR.
Professor OF General and Applied Chemistry in Yale College,
DR.. A. A. Hayes. Boston
Sill have the following patents for furnaces for
burning bagasse and other wet fuel
ls Letters patent granted Moses Thompson 10th ApriI
1885, and reissued 3lst March. 1851
3D. Letters tent granted Hager Allyn, May g. 1856 re-
ssued May 4th, 1858,
4th. Letters patent gran'ed Saue H. Gilman December
1855 reissued August 8, 1856.
eissued 3st March, 1850 anedats the Others This patent
method of driving aud consuming fuel
These two operations are simultaneously upon diff
reht portions OF the bagasse the and heated
'r from the two being united in shabe chamber contiguous
o the tire chamber and together, the assisting
he combustion OF the other This paen also tie
series of fire chambers, undating with mixing
hamber each fire chamber having it, air passages
iues, with dampsrs for the regulation of the draught
The furnace described in the patent of Hager Allyn MAY
h 1885, clear and pable Infringement of Thompson's
that portion which is being dried being with those
which is being consumed and the whole are
ngs and the space beneath the boilers the pans Immediately
connected with This passage forming the mixing combustion
,hamber, in which the gases are consumed.
In the patent of Evan Shelley June Is 1858 the bagasse
brown in and heaped til floor hearth which 1t
burned but iietcay the oPerati is carried
being burned the portion u being dried
is dried and consumed the vapors from drying
'ompson's furnace being continuous This furnace is here
ore, clear infringement Of the Thompson patent
In the furnace described in nNlnS patent December 4h
SIS, the hagasse thrown contnuouy single burnl
ha ber bul ihe drying and burni ions continue stimuli
anersly upon diheren po Ions url and TIE cases. vapers
nd heat air senetnted AZ all drown gehe cham
tR o. Gmins drawnsl Wipe they are nike and con-
nmsd This tu mace Is ther foie TN u!ouS e in rim emen
I Ihdmpsur's patent.