The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-11-29
REVOLUTION IN PRODUCING STEAM.
An Inventors Labor of a Lifetime
Crowned with Success.

An Inventors Labor of Lifetime
Crowned with Success.
Mr.. S. G.. Salisbury, a mechanic. has
been at work for twenty years on plan
to utilize petroleum for fuel in produc-
ing steam. He has hitsit, and is in a fair
way to make a fortune. It was tested in
the Brooklyn navy yard on Saturday.
and found to work 10 the utmost salts
faction of the officers who inspected it.
The furnaces were in full blast. but no
smoke was visible Great volumes of
white steam rolled away fi5n the pine
but no coal was thrown upon the fire be-
low. 1t had the look of an effect with
out a cause
THE most wonderful sight have ever
SEEN" the veteran engineer Isherwood
said. at revolutionizes the iron and
steel manufacture the world over one
of the largest iron men of the country ex-
claimed. at opens a new era in glass
manufacture. We shall soon hare glass
roofs on our houses, and French plate
will be as cheap as common window
glass" said larg glass-makere.
The results were Sc extraordinary in
the perfect combustion attained, in the
intensity of heat quickly produced, in the
enormous pressure of the Superheated
steam, in the astonishing evaporation of
water, in the freedom from dust, cinders,
sulphur and all impurities, that these ex-
perts at once realized that a revolution
in all departments where steam is used
must occur Immediately.
The fuel is made of the residue of De
troleum and cOal-tar, which is mixed 10
about the consistency of molasses 1t is
conducted from the barrel to the furnace
by means of small gas-pipe. At the
end of this pipe as it enters is the door
of the furnace into funnel-shaped appa-
ratus. AS the fuel enters this funnel it
comes in contact with current of high
ly super-heated steam, which atomiZes
the liquid so that it leaves the machine.
1t induces the required amount of oxy-
gen to enter and mix at the point of ig-
milton. Thus the atomized fuel shoots
in fierce, but delicate spray, into the
blazing furnace? The brick arches OF
the great furnaces are kept at a white
heat, and pure white flame flashes along
the whole length, registering heat OF
5000 degrees, melting pig iron in ten
minutes, and making liquid glass in two
hours instead of sixteen. All that there
is to maintain this extraordinary heat is
the slight spray darting in from the lit
tie furnace, which comes just within the
door. 81 can send this intense flame
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have furnace arch that long" said the
inventor
The amazing scope of the new discov.
cry may be estimated from it's effect up
on the oil trade alone. Mr. Salisbury
says he is about to make proposition
to the producers and the United Pipe
Lines for permanent contract to take
from them at Pittsburg all of their sur
| plus and all of their distillate tar nap
thas at a price that will give the pro
ducers fully so per cent. profit, and also
pay the pipe lines for piping it to Pitts
| burg. The ocean steamship business
will also feel the effect of the revolution
in steam producing fuel. Experiments
already made show that in single trip
across the Atlantic a saving of about
$1,000 will be effected in freightroom
alone, as the space now taken up for 800
1 tons of coal will be used for freight
But the greatest achievements of the
new system will be in iron making Said
the leading representatives of this inter
est: This is the grandest achievement
of science in this age, and this inventors
income, even on very small royalties
will be greater than that of any living
capitalist. With the mechanism invent
ed by Mr.. Salisbury blast furnace Of
thirty tons per day will convert its liquid
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iron or steel at cost so trifiing that it en-
hances the value of pig-metal 100 pei
cent" -
Sulphur and carbon, the two deteriora
tive elements that are present in all the
wrought-iron now made, are utterly cast
out by this new process. In the Sails
bury furnaces the pig-metal is melted to
a thin liquid in fifteen minutes. 1t is
then drawn off into a second furnace
one foot lower than the first. The second
furnace is Immediately charged with 6
continuous sheet of hot air, and super
heated steam of 1000 degrees and i'm
mense pressure, which keeps every par
| ticle of the liquid metal in agitation, and
burns out the carbon utterly in from
eight to ten minutes, when it is ready for
the puddler. At no time in this opera
ton can any cold air come in contact
with the liquid, and consequently every
| particle becomes united, In the two
melting processes every trace of sulphur
is taken up. The instant the metal is
run off into the second furnace the first
is filled with pigs. When number two
is taken out by the puddler the new lot
is ready to run into the second furnace
and so on in ceaseless alteration.
Note some points in contrast with the
method where coal is used as fuel:
| l. II HAS anyways Deeh Impossible &c
free the iron from carbon and sulphur
with the old methods.
2. Ten charges are run off in day and
night with the present process. The
same number will be run off in ten hours
with the new. One puddler will turn
out in ten hours the amount that foul
puddlers and helpers will turn out il
twenty-four hours.
8. The furnaces will be kept hot fol
three months continuously, as the fire
brick, becoming intensified by the in
tense heat, will last that long. Under
the present method-owing to the action
of the sulphur and the necessity of scrap
ing off the fine cinders and ashes, which
form the clinkers on the brick-the lat
ter must be removed every day, and &
new hearth made, during which time the
furnace is allowed to cool.
4. Not only is the quality adhesive
ness) of the iron improved by the new
process, but the quantity is increased 10(
pounds to the ton of material.
5. One-half the labor in finishing i:
saved.
6. The heavy labor of handling Goa.
and removing ashes is dispensed with.
z. The cost of fuel is reduced one-half
reckoning coal at only So per ton.
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