The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-10-24
A GREAT DISCOVERY.
AN INVENTORS LABOR OF A LIFE.
TIME CROWNED WITH COM
PLETE SUCCESS.
Petroleum Utilized as Fuel-A Revolution In the
Making Of EteAm-A Discovery OF UDparallel.
ed Importance to the Arts, Manufac.
lures and Navigation.

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New York, Oct, 21 Mr.. 8. C.::salisbury, a me.
chanic, has been at work for twenty years on q
plan To utilize petroleum for fuel In producing
steam. He has hit 1t, and is in q fair way Ia
make fortune 1t was tested In the Brooklyn
navy yard on Saturday, and was found to work
TO the utmost satisfaction Of the officers who in.
spected It, The furnace was In full blast, but nc
smoke was visible. Great volumes Of white steam
rolled away from the pipe, but no coal was thrown
on the fire below. II had the look Of an effect
without cause
1.-THE most wonderful sight have ever Feen, y
the veteran engineer sherwood said. 1T revOlu.
tonizes the iron and steel manufacture the world
over" one Of the largest iron men Of the country
exclaimed. at opens new era In glass manu-
facture, We shall soon have glass roofs on oul
houses, and French plate glass will be as cheap
as common window. glass" said large glass
maker.
The results were 80 extraordinary In the perfect
combustion attained, in the intensity Of heat
quickly produced in the enormous pressure Of
the superheated steam, in the astonishing evapo.
ration Of water, in the freedom from dust Gin.
ders, sulphur and all impurities, that these ex,
perts at once realized that revolution in all de.
partments where steam is used must occur i'm
mediately.
The fuel is made Of the:residue Of petroleum
and coal-tar, which is mixed to about the con.
sistency of molasses 1t is conducted from the
barrel to the furnace by means Of small gas
pipe At the end of this pipe as II enters into the
door above the furnace is a funnelshaped appa.
ratus. As the fuel enters this funnel 1t comes in
contact with a current of superheated steam
which atomizes the liquid 80 that 1t leaves the
machine 1t induces the required amount Of
| oxygen to enter and mix at the point of ignition
| Thus the atOmized fuel shoots, in fierce but de-
| licate spray into the blazing furnace. The brick
arches of the great furnaces are kept al a white
heat, and the pure white fame flashes along the
whole length, registering a 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 10 the
slight spray darting In from the little furnace
which comes just within the door. Il can send
this intense white heat from the battery to Grace
| Church If have furnace alCh that long" said
| the inventor.
The amazing scope of this new discovery may
| be estimated from its effects upon the oil trade
| alone Mr., Salisbury says he is about to make q
| proposition 10 the producers and the United Pipe
Lines for permanent contract to take from them
at Pittsburgh all OF their surplus and all their dis
| tilate tar naphthas at price that will give the
producers fully so per cent profit and also pay
the pipe lines for piping 1t to Pittsburgh The
ocean steamship business will also feel the effect
| of this revolution in steam producing fuel EX.
| perlments already made show that In a single
trip across the Atlantic saving OF about IS 000
will be effected In freight room alone. as the space
now taken up for 300 tons of coal will be used for
freight
But the greatest achievements Of the new sys.
| TEN will be in irOn-makng Said the leading rep.
resentatve OF this interest: This is the greatest
1 ~ E,,k a, A..
| tors income, even on very small royalties viii be
greater than that of any living capitalist With
| the mechanism invented by Mr.. Salisbury blast
furnace Of thirty tons per day will convert It's
liquid iron into blooms or lngots Of wrought iron
or steel at a cost so trling that 1t enhances the
value Of pig iron 100 per cent"
| Sulphur and carbon, the two deteriorative ele
ments that are present In all the wrought iron now
made are utterly cast out by this new process. In
| the Salisbury furnaces the pigmeal is melted 10
off into a second furnace one foot lower than the
| first. The second furnace isimmediatey charged
with continuous sheet Of hot air, and superheat.
| ed steam Of 1000 degrees and immense pressure,
which keeps every particle Of the liquid melal in
| agitation and burns out the carbon utterly in
from eight TO ten minutes when Ii is ready for the
| puddler. At no time IN this operation can any
cold air come In contact with the liquid and con.
| sequently every particle becomes united In the
two melting processes every trace Of sulphur is
taden up. The instant the metal Is run off into
the second furnace the first is filed with pigs.
When number two is taken out by the epuddler the
new lot is ready to run into the second furnaces
and so on In ceaseless alienation.
Note some points In contrast with the method
where coal is used as fuel:
]. II has always been impossible to free the iron
from carbon and sulphur with the old methods.
2 Ten charges are run off In a day and night
with the present process. The same number will
be run of IN ten hours with the new One pud.
dler will tnrn out In ten hours the amount that
four puddlers and helpers now turn out in twenty
four hours
The furnaces will be kept hot for three months
continuously, as the fire brick, becoming intensi-
fed by the intense heat, will last that long Un.
der the present methOd-Owing to the action Of
the sulphur and the necessity Of scraping off the
fine cnders and ashes, which form cinkefs on the
brick-the latter must be removed every day, and
a new hearth made, during which time the furnace
is allowed to cool.
A. Not only ia the quality (adhesiveneBs) of the
iron improved by the new process, but the guam
tiIy is increased one hundred pounds to the ton of
material.
5. 0ne-half the labor in finishing Is saved.
6. The heavy labor of handling coal and remoV.
ing ashes is dispensed with.
Z. The cost Of fuel is reduced one half, reckon.
ing coal at only So per ton.