Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-13
Ice MANuFACTURIEa COMPANY.

On our first page, under the head OF
new advertisements, Will be found the
card of the Memphis Ice Manufacturing
Company, who announce to the citizens
of Memphis and its vicinity that they are
now setting up in the GayOsO House one
OF the very latest improvements on the
patent ice neutrality-suspicious. Van der
Weyde's, having a capacity of producing
ten tons of pure solid ice per diem. The
machinery will be in operation by the
18th prox., and will be able to furnish ice
at a rate lower than ever before offered to
the 3Memphis public. AS we have said
so much on the subject during the past
three or fOu months we do not intend at
present TO give a working description Of
the machinery, but as soon as it arrives
We will do 80. A few words concerning
the principle, however, upon which
the ice is made may not be out Of place.
The refrigerator, with direct acting engine,
occupies a space of but twelve feet square,
and consequently requires but a small
room. To produce twenty thousand
pounds of ice, one ton Of coal and the ser
vices of a fireman acting as engineer and
three men to handle b water and ice.
The only chemical used is a hitherto waste
product of petrOleam, called chymOgene
Tor cold generatorl. The process consists
in vaporizing the chymogene in an iron
or other metallic tank, containing, in its
anHlltdLlOh 10 It's NiuhAllEH hltA4llAE AuDoe
in which mOulds Of adequate size are in
serted, filled with pure water, from which
the air has been extracted, which yields
pure, clear slabs Of ice. These, for cOnve-
nience, NAV be made two inches thick by
twelve wide and t~wenty-fOur long. Being
frozen at a low temperature, they are
placed in piles of six on top Of each other,
when their smooth surfaces Immediately
freeze together, making a solid lump two
cot nlnr aud nna fg-r EuuQwa nr FKWn On hIa
feet. The chymosene having, by the
process of evaporation, extracted a
certain quantity Of latent heat
from the water an the mOulds,
is again condensed into a liquid
form, passing, in the process, through a
metallic coil or worm surrounding the air
or pumps.and chymogene reser-
voir, all Of which are immersed in a larger
vessel or tank filed with cold water, and
through which a steady stream Is made to
flow, the chemical eve coming in con-
tact with the water or the air, and losing
nothing by use. This brief description of
the simplest and most economical process
ever yet discovered for the artificial pro-
ductiOn OF ice will convey a tolerably cor
rect idea Of the method of ic6-making
now presented for private and public
enterprise. The application Of the princi-
pie to the varied purposes of refrigera-
lion is equally simple and eficaciOus,
and we Will, at the proper time, give a
full description of them. 1t is impossible
to oVer-estimate the effect that will be
produced in the domestic economy Of
cities when fresh meat, fish, poultry, but
ter, eggs, milk, and all the numerous
fruits, vegetables, and other p~erishable
but indispensable articles of cOnsump-
ton shall be brought from thousands of
miles, in a pure, dry and completely anti
septic temperature, to our great markets.
Unlike ice ref1geratOrs, which preserve
such articles very we'll 50 long as the tenn
perature is kept just above freezing point,
but which rapidly decOmpOse as soon as
exposed to the air, by reason of the mois-
ture impaired by the ice, the new process
extracts all moisture from the refriger-
ated space, and prepares the most delicate
substances for a prolonged exposure to
the atmosphere, when removed. The Su-
periutendent Of the Company, Mr.. New
ton s. Otis, can be found at No. rs
Second street, corner Of Madison, and
viii give any further information on the
subject.