The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1871-10-11
Ice.

We have observed with considerable
interest the machine for the manufacture
of ice, which was lately brought here by
Mr.. Smith, and put into operation in a
building on the Esplanade. This machine
was brought from San Francisco, where
similar ones, of the same patent, are in
successful operation, and also in Los An
gelos, making ice that can be sold at a
profit at the market price of natural
formed ice
The material employed for freezing is
ammoniacal gas, which, having been con-
densed into liquid by pressure and cooled
in cistern of running water, is admitted
into the coil of pipes in the freezing els
tern, where the pressure being removed
the liquid expands into the gaseous form.
This change of form produces an intense
cold which is communicated to the water,
and when the process has been continued
sufficient time reduces its temperature far
below that of the freezing point. The
gas is Withdrawn from the freezing cisten
by force-pump worked by steam, which
sends it to the condensing cistern, under
a pressure sufficient to reduce it again to
liquid form. In this way the process is
made continuous, without any material
waste of the gas, and it can be kept up
making ice to the full capacity of the ma
chine, throughout the twenty-four hours
of the day, if necessary.
The machine of Mr.. Smith is rated at
one ton of ice per day, when in good run
ming order,-a quantity more than sufii-
cient to supply the present demands of
the town.
We are glad to see this new industry
started here, and believe when the supply
Of ice can be made regularly and without
break, and also at moderate price per
pound, that it will meet with sufficient
custom to insure profitable return to the
owner. We need hardly commend it to
the favor and support of the public, since
ice in warm climate may almost be
classed among the necessities, and it will
certainly come to be so considered here,
when a constant supply can be depended
upon. That we can be furnished with it
from other countries-attended as such
are, besides the usual
charges, with great waste both on the
passage hither and subsequent storage
until distribution to customers-we think
is out of the question. 1t has been tried |
several times and by different parties,
always with the same result-losses and
final abandonment of the business.
1t is evident therefore, that to have ice,
as regular and cheap com
modify. we must rely upon its being man
fractured here; and as such manufac-
ure has been demonstrated in other
places TO be possible at commercial
,roft, we see no reason why it should
continue to be a luxury here, or at times
lot obtainable at any price however large.
We notice that the Louisiana Ice Man
featuring Company, at New Orleans,
roduce on an average from seventy-two
o seventy-six tons of ice per day, at
ost of three dollars per ton, while the ice
lade by them is more compact and thaws
ess rapidly than natural ice. Many of
he Hospitals in India are supplied with
having come to be con
dered as necessary part of the curative
ppliances of such institutions .
Such are the Improvements that have
cen made of late in the construction of
lachines, and the adapting of the freezing
to a practical and inexpensive c
lode of working. Such is the atten- r
on given to inventions in this line, that
is not impossible that even in countries
here rigorous winter creates ice in
nlimited quantities, that the ice for do !,
estic and industrial uses will come to be :
applied by artificial instead of natural 6
eans. Certainly in towns in ike circum- n
ances as ours, the ice machines will K
rove a great benefit as well as convent p
ice, and viii make for themselves a place b
M business b