Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-16
The J. w. Bishop Patent Automatic Fire
 Extinguishing Apparatus.

Distinguishing Apparatus.
 Another exhibition of the great and decided merits of J. W. Bishops patent automatic fire extinguishing apparatus was made yester- day noon in this city on Water street on the Bishop land where was formerly 8 lumber yard. A wooden structure stood there one story high, thirty feet front and forty feet wide. The renown of this extinguisher brought prominent gentlemen from Philadel- phia, New York and other cities to witness the exhibition, also many prominent manu- lecturers and other gentlemen of our own city. The building was set on fire and when blazing we'll the extinguisher was set to work to attack it and in twenty seconds the fire was ont The exhibit was another triumph for this extinguisher, which is the invention of one of our best known and most esteemed townsmen, J. w. Bishop, Esq At 8 pre- vious trial here few months ago the extin- guisher was equally triumphant, and so on every occasion when it has been tested. Not long since one of these extinguishers was called into use at Allen Brothers mills in Birmingham. The extinguisher works auto- maticaIly A fire started in the mills and was extInguished by this invention before any body knew that the shop was on fire. The first knowledge the men at work in the shop
 
 the water from the extinguisher. Recently the success and merits of the invention were brilliantly demonstrated anew. This was at the great exhibition in Boston. The exhibition WAS given on Huntington avenue between the American and Foreign exhibi- tion buildings. This building WAS about 25 by 30 feet and set on fire by lighting four or five barrels of pine shavings that had been spread out upon the floor. In eighteen sec- onds from the time the fire was started it was extinguished by the sprinklers that had been arranged within the building. The well known weekly journal t'Cotton, Wool and Iron" speaks at length of the exhibition and in its report says:
 ssThe water by which the pipes were supplied was shut of from the pipes by an arrangement reculAr to the valves and almost instantly the sprinklers opened and after the fire extingushed the water which turned it on. The water WAS taken from street hydrant through hoss and pipe to the of the building, where was placed the automatic valve referred to.
 tThe systam of pipes running through the building h. t suitable aa to b e bv t bsa generated by the fire at only those points where the ter to the parts of the building which there no
 fire as would be the case under the ordinary way of extfngui thing by hose or open pipes"
 When the temperature reaches 8 certain point. 160o F., the extinguisher is put into operation automatically and the surrounding snace is treated to an effectual shower bath. No trouble is had with corrosion of the pipss or of Ithe fusible material, no damage from freezing or injury from leakage, nor stopping up of the distributors with rust or sediment which would be formed by the wa ter remaining in the pipes. MT. Bishop has also newly improved self-adjusting sprink- Ter, the object of which is should the pres sure of water from any cause be reduced the 1 sprinkler could cover the same area as with a hieher pressure. J. F. Gilbert & O., 479 State street, New Haven, Conn. are the man, ufacturers and agents os this automatic sprinkling device.