The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-03-22
REVOLUTION III lEoT1EB paWBR.


/ generation Of mechanical power will be
almost as radical as the inventor Of Watt,
We refer TO the AtwateF Motor. Although
only The baFest biHts have been given of
Ut By the press hundreds daily visit il
and goaway convinced. A strange sight
1t Is 70 see q dimiuutive engine, sppar-
emily of two horse power capacity and
occupying space Of Is sqH are feet, ac-
tually doing the york ofs Is. horse pow.
er engine and capable, apparently, ofpsr-
forming double the amount. The new
Motor is moi model, it is at sCork, and
one has only TO visit the iron warehouse
of Messrs, Hall, KlmbaFk 4 Co., 20 see
nesgrealesI mechanical invention of this
age, s-saa VOW .aou b. ss5-r
-pI iss THE PRINCIPLE
claimed by the inventor is stratling one
and the doubling scientific world WI. be
slow TO concede its realization. II iE no
less than the conversion Of the latent heat
of steam into free or sensible heat, aud,
By it. the expansion OF air motive power.
1t Is a we'll koWn, philosophical fact that
water Is converted into steam at a tenn
perature Of gig deg. Fab, and that, 10
passing into vapor, it absorbs or renders
latent $50 degrees of heat; that, upon
condensation, this latent heat is immedi-
ately set free again and becomes sensible.
It is known too, that air is capable of in
definite expansion, in proportion to the
heat employed; while water, converted
Unto steam and unconfned, occupies only
l, 100 times it's former bulk. ......
+ .sas-so THE ATwATER MOTOR.
Il consists first of a fire. box whose
base is about l8 inches square the size
of an ordinary cooking stoye, upon which
is an uplight boiler divided into four com
.paLtme1ts. The lower. portion, or to be
clearer, the lower boiler contains water,
and through it passed the, hues FIRE box:
next comes what is called a combustion
chamber, separating the lower end upper
boilers, and into which the fues conduct
the fame and smoke from the fire box.
From the combustion chamber the fues
convey the heat flame through the upper
boiler aud thence to the chimney. Above
the combustion chamber is the upper
boiler, connected with the lower boiler by
pipes which terminate in the upper part
of the upper boiler. In the extreme up
per part Of the second boiler is a com
partment, of the same dimensions as the
cylinder Of the engine, called the desica-
ting chamber, surrounded by water and
having two pipes, one connecting it with
the cylinders of the engine. the other
with the upper part of the boiler. At
taohed to the latter pipe is another pipe
called an air injector, connecting with an
air chamber and with an air or water
pump and containing a check valve. We
are now ready to understand
THE OPERATION
of this modern mechanical wonder.
Steam having been generated in the lower
boiler, passes by the pipes to the steam
chamber in the upper part of the upper
boiler; the throttle valve is openened,
and the steam rushes into the pipe con-
Meeting with the desicating chamber; as
it passes the point of connection of the
air injector, it receives therefrom "a equal
volume o: air, becomes wholly or partial
ly condensed, gives up and imparts to
the air It's $50 degs. Of latent heat set
free by the condensation, and with this
intensely heated and expanded volume Of
air rushes into the desicating chamber.
The steam here is converted into dry
steam. and with the expanded air
passes into the cylinder of the engine and
performs its work.
To prevent the immense pressure of
the super-heated and expanded air. from
reacting upon the boiler, check valve is
placed in the pipe just below III injector;
this and the cheek valve in the air p pc
close when the pressure is greatest in the
desicating chamber.
ECONOMY IN FUEL
is the most tangible advantage. One all
most begins to look for the realiz alton of
areal navigation. Experiments show the
combined steam aud air to be twice as eff
fective as steam alone; but the air costs
nothing, and saving of 50 per cent. of
steam IS saving Of 50 per cent. Of fuel.
The engine now operating 10 the iron
warehouse of Messrs. Hall, Kimbark q
Co., elevates from 2. 500 to $500 pounds
at time, and practically performs the
work of a Is horse power engine. Yet
it burne less than halt a ton Of coal per
meek, hardly up to the consumptiVe feats
of many an ordinary kitchen stove. Not
many yards away, in another building,
is a IL horse power, lifting only one
third the weight and consuming two tons
of coal per week. The saving of ten per
cent. in the generation of steam would be
an enormous item; the Atwster Meter
saves over so per cent. of fuel, and per-
| forms three times the work. The sppli-
cation of this principal to the generation
of power would save to the city Of Chi
cago three quarters OF q million, and to
The State, from three to Eye millions Of
dollars annually.
THE ECONOMY IN SPACE
is no less remarkable. An ordinary Is
horse power engine and boiler will oecu-
Ply $50 square leet Of room. The At
water Motor of the same capacity requires
but fifteen feet-a saving OF 600 percent
in space. I.-5
There is no doubt that we are on the
verge of a revolution in the generation Of
motive power. Inventions ia the appli-
cation Of power, since the time of Watts,
have been almost inumerabls. This dis J.
-covery and invention, for it is really both.
relates not merely to the application, but
| is a radical innovation in the principal OF
generating, power, quietly perfected BY
the inventor aud brought before the
world with no grand flourish of trumpets.
but IN the shape of an exquisits pigmy
of an engine which performs with ease
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