Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-07-09

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issue patent rights. This service alone
will cost $50, 900, and will not be COM
| pleted until three or four months hence
Mr.. Keely is very reticent on the sub
ject of his discovery, and referred your
correspondents to his attorney, John B,
Collier, Esq. The latter gentleman
said that q private view of the work
ing of the moter had been made on
the 10th of November, 1874, before a
number Of capitalists, and that only
three weeks since another exhibition
had been given before anumber Of gen.
tlemen from the New England States.
Those gentlemen were so well pleased
with the modus operandi, and believed
so fully in the ultimate supersedure
Of steam by the new power, that they
formed a stock company purchased
the patent right for the six New Eng
land States, and paid $50, 600 cash i'm
mediately for their share in the inven-
tion, and are ready to forward $500,
600 as soon as called upon. They will
organize q company with q capital of
| So, 600, 900 and be ready to manufacture
the engines and necessary apparatus
as soon as the proper patents are pro-
| cured.
HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY.
Mr.. Keely alleges that the discovery
of this power was purely accidental.
Up to within short time he was q
poor man, but, having wonderful de-
gree of natural mechanical skill, he
devoted all his time for the past four
teen years to experiments with water
with view Of procuring motive
power from it. He was engaged upon
an idea of his own regarding the force
of columns Of water one day when he
accidently discovered vapor which he
has harnessed. He studied the subject,
ascertained how 1t was generated,
learned its power, and thencefoth ap-
piled himself solely to the perfection
of this idea, working night and day
for number of years, until his efforts
were crowned with success. The ap-
paratus by which this power is made
is termed generator" or "multipli-
Gator" and the vapor is then passed
into "receiver," and from thence to
the cylinder box of the engine, where
it drives the pistons and sets the en-
gines in motion. The generator is
| about three feet high, made Of Austri.
an gun metal, is one solid piece and
will hold about ten nr twelve gallons
Of water. 1t is four or five inches
thick, and made to stand the very
heavy pressure of 10000 to $4,000
pounds of vapor to the square inch.
The inside is composed Of number
of cylindrical champers, connected
by pipes, and furnished with cocks
and valves. The reservoir is about
six inches in diameter and forty inch
es long, and is connected with the
generator" by pipe which is about
one inch in circumference on the out
side, with bore Of about one eigth
Of an inch. Connected with both
generator and receiver is a stand
pipe of brass, about two and a-half
inches in diameter and three feet high
having a spherical chamber at the
bottom, made in two parts, by fanges
and connected to the pipe uniting the
generator and Reservoir" The
vapor generated In the multiplicator
is conveyed to the reservoir, which
contains numerous pipes, and from
there by feed pipe, to the engine.
The engine is of a peculiar construc.
tion, but the inventor claims that the
vapor can be attached to any ordina-
ry engine now in use, with very slight
| alterations.
CLAIMS OF THE INVENTOR.
Mr.. Keely claims that this apparatus
will generate cold vapor from water
by mechanical appliances, without
the use of chemicals. The water used
is common spring or we'll water, and
does not undergo any previous prepa-
ration, a rubber hose from an ordina-
ry hydrant to the generator being
used as means of conveying the IL
quid. The popularity of this vapor is
that 1t can be used to the best advan-
tage at pressure of from 10000 to
10000 pounds to the square inch. To
the mechanical mind this seems i'm.
possible. Yet such is the claim of
Mr.. Keely, and it has been attested
that such is the fact by gentlemen
who are claimed to be mechanical ex-
perts of the highest grade. Yet with
all this immense pressure at his COM
mand, the inventor is enabled to con-
troll his engine, and run It with the
same ease and facility as engines are
now run by steam. He has tried the
moter upon an engine of ftwenty-horse
power, and 1t defied the efforts of all
the gentlemen present to stop
the fy-wheel. The water used, after
it is passed through the multiplicator
has no perceptible smell or taste, and
seems as pure as when it first entered,
thus showing conclusively that no sc.
cret chemical process is employed to
carry out the object designed. The
parts of the generator and multipli-
Gator are all made of welded iron, of
great thickness and strength. The
connecting pipes are also small and
OF great thickness, and are oxidized
ana planished 80 as to prevent the
force OF the vapor escaping through
the pores OF the metal. Steam conid
not pass through the connecting pipes
which are used on this apparatus, since
the bore Is only about the dimension
of knitting-needle.
DANGER eF EXPLOSION.
With this immense power at hand
one would naturally fear an explosion
most disasterous in its results. But
such, it is claimed, cannot be the case,
since when the vapor comes in con.
tact with the atmosphere it ceases to
expand, and instantly goes back to its
origanal state-namely, air and water;
therefore, in this regard it is less dan
gerous than either gunpowder or |
steam. The vapor Is thinner than air,
ana wiii not cut the metal in escap-
ing OF passing through the throttle
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