Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-01-17
The CHRONf6fE.
ANEM MOTIVE POWER.

A correspondent of the Titusville
Courier, writing to that paper from
PHILADELPHIA, gives q very interest
ing description offs new motor known
as 1.-THE Hydro-Pneumatic Pulsating
Engine.U The inventor explains,
that with the best water or turbine
wheels now in use, n hundred
pounds of water are requisite TO
produce eighty.two pounds of power;
but in this machine one pound Of
wafer is sufficient to produce Il thou
sand pounds of power. The agents
furnishing this immense power are
not new. They are as old as creation
and as necessary to o1r life as they
are to furnish the motive power for
this engine These agents are simply
air and water in the proportion of fif-
teen-sixteenths of the former to one
sixteenth of the latter. Everything
about it is patent to the eye, except
the arrangement of air chambers
which give to the elements p-opeling
power, and these are very properly
concealed by a copper cylinder or re-
eeiver. A rubber hose is attached to
the cold stopcoek of a bath-tub, and
through this the water passes into
and upon WHAT is called a diaphragm
in a stream the size q goosequill. r
Upon the introduction of the water
which is used only rs packer o
"lubrieator, " q cast fywheel is set in
motion and presently revolves at the
rate of-from five hundredt to nine hun
dred revolution q minute, the spokes
of the wheel g~littering as a solid sur
face. \ lead of four pounds of water
through a gOOsequil produces instant
activity, giving a capacity of seven
hundred pounds, each stroke of 'the
pulsating medium, and dispensing
power upon the pulley sufficient to
raise thirty-six thousand pounds one
foot per minute.
In the small one-horse machine
now in operation the cylinder in
which the piston nov is about four
inches long, and the piston is only the
size of a copper cent; yet it runs
readily with great velocity, lifting at
every stroke of the pulsating medium
a weight so arranged by leverage as
to be equal to seven hundred pounds;
and the strongest man fluids il impos-
sible to affect the speed a prricle, by
applying friction to the cogs OF wheel
six inches in diameter, by which the
power is directly applied to machi-
merry.
BY an improvement utilizing the
escape of waste water, five hundred
pounds ofpower perminute are gain
ed, and the engine runs itself, either
with pressure, or independent Oft.
The full power of the small machine
now in operation can be gained by Q
stream of water running through a
tube no larger than a lucifer match.
The machinery is simple, and yet
there is q mechanical combination
(also the invention of Mr.- so
ingeniously contrived, and giving
such a multiplication of powers as to
astonish all beholders, either scientific
or practical
1t requires no fuel, no c%aloric, or
any chemical agent. Air and 4 very
small stream of cold water are the
only agents used. 1t will not occupy
one-fourth the space, nor cost one
half as much as an ordinary steam en-
CINE of the same power; and econom-
ically considered, will be the cheapest
ever brought into practical use.
The propelling agents are absolute
ly without cOst-the only cost after
first cost being the wear and tear of
the machine, by friction. The in
says, "Only keep the W alter
running into it, and the machine
will be kept in motion until worn
out" Active preparations are now
in progress for putting up a ten-horse
power engine.