Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-09-23


Capt H. whitaker. Of Buffalo, has invented
steam boiler, which, we should judge, will
make more steam with less amount Of fuel than
any other boiler extant Il also has the advan-
tage Of superheaiing It's own steam, thereby
increasing its expansive power TO a great
degree. The boiler is as strong as any loco
motive boiler in use, and it is claimed to be
equally as safe if notmore so.
The drawings we examined were for two
boilers to be used ON the side screw steamer
now being proposed to be built in this city,
The length Of this steamer will be 200 feet. The
shspeo the boiler is cylindrical, and is ls feet
high, and Q feet in diameter. Ii is entirely sur
rounded by a water jacket three inches thick,
which is exposed directly to the heat. At the
bottom is the box, circular in fom--run-
ming around entirely between the outside water
jacket and the inside boiler This fire box is
PROVIDED with two DOORS one on each side II
is two feet deep, running back to the inside
boiler. The heat passes upwards between tubes
filled iDiih irdter for feet then it turns and
dives downwards through tubes surrounded by
Dater, to within inches below the gratcs--it
then turns upwards through the center tubes
for ls feet--thence into the chimney. The
center tubes--some 90 in number, arc sur
rounded with water for l2 feet in height-and
the balance 6 feet passes through the steam
chamber thus superheating the steam
This boiler is so planned as to make It as
easily cleaned and repaired as the ordinary
locomotive boiler. Its fire heating capacity is
enormous for the size-the two boilers for the
proposed steamer having $500 square feet Of
fire surface.
"CAPT ii. WHITAKER Dear Sr.--Agree.
ably to your request, send you the results Of
my experience while on board the side screw
steamer Charlotte Vanderbilt, on her trial trip
a few days since. l went on board with view
TO test the quality of the Tiverton Anthracite
Coal iB a new boiler which was on said boat
and which / have since learned was invented
and patented by yourself. AS a rapid, certain
economical, and perfect steam generator
think your boiler is unequaled at any rate,
have known OF nothing equal TO it in my long
prectcal experience in the management Of all
kinds of steam boilers during period of over
thirty four years, and should say that it is
strong, compact. and safe in all respects
oAml1O mOhIsONg ENgAIeeT.
The only steam boiler now in use made after
Capt Whitakers Patent is an extensive factory
in Stanton, near Wilmington, Del. James
Taylor, the owner of this steam boiler, writes
as follows;
STANTON, July Goth, 1859
Carr. HARRY WHlrAKrR-Dear Sir: Your
patent steam boiler, as have said once before,
exceeds anything in the steam boiler line in this
section Of country. We carry 100 lbs to the
square inch, aud only use HALF the fuel used
under my former boilers, which was ? tons,
and now / use only l tons per day. The steam
produced in your patent steam hOiler is of bet
ter quality than that produced in my former
bOilers-I presume from its being superheateJ
twill boil a vat Of cold water in Just about one
half the time required with my old hoilers-
If l had a smoke stack on the top of M,
boiler, about sixty or seventy feet high, /
have no doubt it would produce better
results; still, can boil vat of cold water in
little over one hour. 1t took something over
two hours to boil one with my former boilers;
besides that, we haze an abundance of steam
now with your boiler, whereas with my former
boilers | was very much pushed at times, and
often steam down. ] consider it very supe-
Tior boiler, and pronounce it the best boiler of
the age. | am having plate engraved per
your instruction, which shall be fastened to the
boiler Yours, truly,
JAMES TAYLOR"
Voluntarily adding their teslirc ony TO the
foregoing, John PilliDg, the Manager, and Robert
Taylor, the Engineer, attached to James Tay-
ldrs letter the following:
1--WE, the undersigned, concur in the abb
statement.
"JoHN PILLING, Manager;
''RoBERT TAYLOR, Engineer"
We would advise engineers and others in.
terested to call and examine the drawings Of
this boiler at the store of Ossian E. Dodge.