New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-08-26
RAcAsSE FURNACE.
151 ToUR aAoAssE-TT rs PROFIT AND

fmtng saturs comhuston and being comeinataen q AZ
forced and srtnciai.
3 sE MANN JOHNSON.
- have ''' : IS; ssassss i Operates.
5 53aE : \. FFttrsAx. 81.
Firm Of Hail. Roda Fasnsm. s BE- Front Lev's street.
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Thopscns Bagass Furnace has been submitted % the test
&. ssss q
srtss ihoss who Witnessed 1t in actual operation is re-
ese h,sh given IN Pssems q
burning fr.. d and '..o
s:s. s = g Re, hn + ASs gss, 1857 before !
II. Pislsa o. sist Dsesmbsr 1856
s s :: !. Of III. result. Of tn.
wckns Bgssse Furnace cons uced for thi.
win ths ass Il Bsssss. small quantity Of wood
g hs sm
With the Of Bagasse and wool with no rs executing the
sss Tho 5 deg 4 deg snisSsd
We have made twelve hossheads hours using
about ten cords wood during that time mostly green willow
make s.s q ssi s:sss: s.
4 hoa and The Funacs readily consumed al the Bsgasss
hsys % e.. sp some years since win
boilers sseasd s.s..ss Fu,a.ss %
l0O Tho required but
No clinfs formed upon the CRATES Furnace therefore
'nss e lsmsn rs:pecfuly your ee ssry
- : S SSHF 1 Ii %H1EEE'
-, Ms.n. S Grow os,, November 18th, 1857.
to ssssns
s.isnset made q letter to Mr.. THOMPSON under
Ths only We can suggest one named BY
your Mr. Hail. and that was II Isgsrd to the hoppsrs
your obsdisnt servant,
S SSHE r Il zHEs'
E1x HAIL. January %. 1852
70 Noses Thompson. Esq
operation during the present rolling and glad Of the
e saying to yo It has equal 70 my san
consider mere capable eecting perfect combustion
han any Wi bun tie from
Ct N so sns "a ssa. spd uss
| hsss q fast as made.
other form Of furnace can at all compare IL efficiency
- ''ai'. Very truly.
new ORLEANS, Feb q 1859.
70 Moses Thompson present:
II sss n.. g. s & @ @
M.ssr S!iyn asss: consider hs!e
e ibs FURNACES hss'.Gn r vi
has Sss sasn e Cd
intense heat furnishes than thought
s ssssss h'
With your furnace applied to the ssux and With
from p hhds hours and w far
II swen four hours and make hs above q Shd
f II ss sSsss ,ts
y and can it all who desire to
i Yours respectfully.
CHARLES NEAMEs, Engineer.
ELM Hall PLANTATION, Feb l. 1859.
Nj Themps9s. New Orleans. La; :, .u.,.,
tons eight snd during mat ms
dass. more uniform Ere larger quantity steam
ss 80
recommending urnace all who may have occasion to
~ 'A'1' fHoss. H. JONES' Englnesr.
In 1855 Messrs Hage Aynn obtained patent and IN tina.
and 1871 they 5any furnaces which inf5ingsd
rights therefore notified and cautioned them
he Commissioner q Patents trial Of conflicting claims
Testimony taken both parties and submitted that
M and Of which he follow
ing Is an extract and closing paragraph He says:
Regarding the invention fully perfected sue
cesul operation in October 1854 at Weeds place. 1t
expermenaiy at earlier period on Gosset Johnsons
taon Thompson had satisfactorily his invention
found that with the substitution Of fire brick for
for III believing for the that neither Hager Aynn
nor Thompson's claim limited to the material employed
each actual substitution mateiA to the question at
and finding that not contract entered into for the
part Of December 1854 priority Of invention is hereby awarded
Moses Thompson, and patent will issue accordingly.
]. HOLT. Commissioner"
Letter from Prof. B. silan. Jr, concerning Mr.. Moses
Thompsons Baggasse Furnace.
YALE CoLLEGE,
h.v. had occasion TO ss
Dry the actual workings Of Mr. Moses Thompon
n Isl Mr. Thompson built for me one of his furnaces do.
s % s s
question vas the rs q lis Kind Mr. T. had never before
ss
s ss Il ne III In s
chamber ~ that var wanting perfect i Mr. Thompson
p an
a. 1t was dug with three parts four Of lis weight
water This waery fuel suced in Mr. Thompsons furnace
boiler day and mis- h but It did with material economy
fuel and expense compared with anthracite coal WOOL in
country where wood was worth "a cord delivered and coal
have elsewhere given my views in detail respecting the
mode Of action M Thompson's furnace need repeat
these views here Suffice 70 that am fully Of opinion
NJ sss ri ne
growing Countries where the of bagasse
has always been subject Of difficulty Moreover while
number Of experiments and almost literal copies
mode Of burning wet fuels have since he FIRST
suctng furnace burning wetfue both In theory
and useful in practice.
Nj. Thompson modest unassuming man, of original
has worked for himself great problem chemical and ply
sca which has baed many other inventors Of far greater
prstsnsiops to scientific kno.ledge and earnestly trust he
rewards which belong 70 those who bestow by their genius
great fAvors on mankind.
Professor Of General and Applied Chemistry in Yale College,
BOSTON, June6, 1859.
Or. A. A. Hayes, Boston:
ls Letters patent granted Moses Thompson 10th April
1855 and reissued Slst March, 1857.
"a Letters RA sssag granted Hsger Allyn May 1856 re-
a. Letters patent granted Shelley, June 18th. 1855
4h Letters patent granted Samuel H. Gilman December
The r 81 these Patents Chooses Thompson 10th April 1855
reisued S March, 1850 antedates the others This patent
These two operations are performed upon Diff
ent portions Of the hagass the gases and heated
sr from The two being united In suitable chamber NIB contiguous
the Of other This also the Of
series Of ro chambers communicating with iue OF mixing
hues, With hampers for the regulation Of the dranght
furnace described in the patent Of Hsger Allyn May
S ana hs S