New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-07-06

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GEORGE H. Io 3sss,tsR Rs'i'A'
Thompsons Bagasss Furnaee has been snbissd 70 s tan
ssss Of y i.
erdcate of those who Witnessed in actual operation.
The shove Certificate which s.ysn IN December 1854.
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FuIases Is. accomplished more II few words "
With and Wood With 10 1rs Excepting ean H.
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about d during that lime mostly xSsp oSe
and baurs drift wood the latter Day Or Two before
hour. T. succession rolled quantity Of
&. ne IN
rollers asTs s Inches @ Il Rs Up years
have boilers attached to the Begasse Furnace IS fes
En-
snse,s ssd 0ns boy non hs r.
they required no cleaning. s55 II
s sDHF Tag MHINTE.
MrRnE GROVE November lsth, 1851.
SS II AK n a. hand .od in
reply to your inquiry Tbomp.on Bagase Funs
the statement made r letter Thompson. under
os w. oS SIs mges 90 can
your Mr. Hail. and that was in regard to the hoppsrs
y S;&p r 1 WHITE
ELx HALL, January o. 1852
bad you; psgss
opportunity Of saying to you has performed equal my
consider II capable Of esctng perfec. combustion
Of the baeasse and consequent production Of heat
q and make heat snd m
In proporson due supply of boiler be gveno the
From present experience clearly of the opinion
with yours. sf''' = el''''A''
Very truly,
E.E. KITTREDGE
To Moses Thompson, present:
o Ds se M il ben on Dr.
f eperaon having other plan,a.iens
within a hs past four years On which the furnaces # MI still
hsd fair opportunity judssg Of he Of
either s
With the same quantity Of Bagasse
capable producing and with the formation Of 6n
s y sh spp sSats E4
sufficient S supply Of boilers will consume the Bagssse
nish six rh rOo
twsny foqr hours and make the above number Of hhd IN
all my firm conviction tht is the have
the Bsgasss into useful fuel. "
Yours, respectfully,
CHARLES NEAMEs Engineer.
ELM HALL PLANTATION, Feb. L. 1859. :
sew as engineer on sur. p.D
tons for seven eight YEAR, and during that time had
am happy to Sag your furnace far sxssls all oe Y
boiler and the Rieas apparatus VII make steam d. Ill q
recommending your frnce 10 all who have occasion
''' 'ns"' ''A''i T iaas, H. JONES, Engineer.
In 1855 Messrs Hager Alynn obtained patent tina.
an early show the planters
with Hs Inn de sns nO
the Commissioner Of Patents trial our conflicting claims
and It s:
ing is an extract and closing paragraph. He says:
Regarding then the invention fully perfected and in sue
cessul operation in October 1854 at Weeds place.
expermenay at earlier period Gosse Johnsons plan
taon where Thompson had satisfactorily tested his invention
and found that with the substitution Of fire brick for
CRATE bars capable Of performing all that he claimed
for III believing for the that neither Hager Aynn
Thompson's claim is limited to the material employed
each actual substitution smmaeal to the question ISSUE
and finding that not contract entered into the
erection of of Hager Alynns furnaces prior the
part of December 1854 priority of invention hereby awarded
Moses Thompson, and patent will issue accordingly
J. HOLT, Commissioner
Letter from Prof. B. siman Jr, concerning Mr. Noses
Thompson's Baggasse Furnace
YALE College,
have had occasion t. examine with great care both The the
for the burning Of wet fuels:
signed PEAT at Bristol copper mine in ths Slate
where was then conducting explorations The furnace in
o Ills d L
worked s than had and vel enough to satisfy
allow the fuel dried 10 fan freely into he lower
prepared changes when the suspension the
s Of
MI Thompsons furnace was capable Of burning Just
AZ n s hd nn nses
only to a hssp i M sss
fuel aud compared with anthracite coal wood
country where wood worth 81 cord delivered and coal
cost about $Sper tun.
have elsewhere given my views in detail respecting the
mode Of action of Mr. Thor psons furnace need repeat
these views here Suffice 1t say, fully opinion
that Mr. T. has made discovery great practical importance
in the arts and that nowhere of great value In all the
growing countries where the economical Of bagae
has always been subject OF great difficulty Moreover while
number of experiments and almost literal
Of his mode Of burning wet fuels have cared since he first
structng furnace for burning fuels both theory
and useful in practice.
Mr. THOMPSON modest, uuassnming man. of an original
and powerful mind Who with advantages Of education
sca which has Saed other inventors OF far greater
preensons to scientific ledge and earnestly trust he
be allowed receive both the honors and the pecunary
rewards which belong to those who besow genius
great fAvors mankind
B. SILLIMAN. JR.,
Professor Of General and Applied Chemistry Yale College,
BOSTON, June6 1859.
Sl have in. the following patents for furnaces for
burning bsgasse and other wet fuel
ls Letters patent granted Moses Thompson 10th April
1855, and reissued 3lst March, 1857.
I'd. Letters patent granted Hager Allyn, May g. 1856 re-
issued May 4th, 1858.
Sd. Letters patent granted Shelley June l5th 1855
4h Letters patent granted Samuel H. Gilman December
1855 reissued August o. 1856.
The first of These Patents Moses Thompson 10th April 1866
ressued 3st March, 1850 anedas the others This patent
covers method of drying and consuming wet fuel
These two operations performed simultaneously diff
iere portions Of the bagasse the and heated
air from the being united suitable chamber contiguous
10 the ire chamber and together the assisting
the combustion the other This also the use of
assries OF fire Chambers communicating with Hue mixing
chamber each fire chamber having air passages and
hues with hampers for the regulation of the draught.
The furnace described the of HRger Allyn, May
9TH 1856 clear pable Infringement of Thompson's
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