Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-22
ABOUT lCE MACHINES.
The Demand for Them Inereasing- Where They are successfully Used and Their Cost.

and Their Cost.
 ttrom the New York Mail and Express 'rhe denahd for ice machines la ineieas ing rapidly" said dealer fesI etday in re=
 spouse to the inquiries of reporter of the Mail and Express, "fhoHgh only introduced | five years age. they are now necessity in |, | business of any good size needing plenty of | ice Every brewery in the city that has T | capacity of three hundred barrels dny has m ice machine, and Improvements are heinz | made in them all the tima Ordinary lee costs brewer two dollars ton, to which seventy Ave cents ton must be added for hauling but II large brewery obtains the
 sntne results ut the rate of ohe dollar ton nawtth lee inarhine There is no Ice mn chine yet nude thut Is wholly suitabis for d6nestic use. This Is Ii problem the ihten- tors hdte bHeti 1t work 6h for teats. 1he thHEhiuhs tdtt itiads Hte ht tNo kinds ttR ehethttHt atih the t6tubtsss6d iii iitaehihss fhe tHttet is adhtted especially f6f HtGes Whsfs tts ehentiefi tnHetitts is nSt Ht titHbtsl as 8H shiRbsAfd: l HHihbsf Bt steaHets eH phsst M ths ttitsttttatiHtt St ttieat tttd bst- iaAHbte HietEhaHAise Hss thshig Hnd 4HHt4 4AaAts AaEs lAsiH As taft 9f thslf putAf HsiaB theM fpf reffigsraliHg Pnrp9ses, Na- 5Qtlatl9ns tre nAW 1T Rfp54fss +pr fAelr Hse
 0u the reeAlar iA4fqpaAn hnes ef passen8er
 steam rs. ih4s aense ar machine, aa we
 cal 1t, employs nq ehemieal substances,
 using only air as q cooling medium, and is
 intended to be run by steam. Anyone who
 can run an ordinary steam engine can run it,
 for all an attendant has to do Is to start and
 stop it when necessary, and give 1t the same
 kind and amount of care needed for a steam
 engine. If these points are attended to it
 will work properly in all seasons and in all
 climates. The capacity of such a machine
 bnS OVaIh NV riA1 wi Sta
 at eighty pounds to be cooling etfact of
 about five tons per day of ice melted to pro-
 duce the effect, or cooling effect of
 over five pounds of melted ice per pound of coal burned under the boiler, on the assump-
 tion that fairly good boiler will produce eight pounds of steam for one pound of coal
 consumed. Experiments in actual ice mak- ing indicate that with this class of machine
 about eighty per cent. of the total cooling effect can be utilized in making. Artifi-
 oial refrigeration has already been success fully applied, besides the purposes I have mentioned, to cooling hotels, hospitals and storage warehouses, the manufacture of oil, candles, oleomargarine and other animal products; the manufacture of wines, vegeta- ble extracts and infusions; the making of nitro-g o-glycerine and the preservation and shipment of fish, oysters, meats, fruits and other food products. Such machine 1 have been telling you about weighs nineteen thousand six hundred pounds. It can be transported bodily or may be shipped in parts ot more convenient weight. It occu- pies a floor space of about eleven feet by six feet, and gives at seventy-fve revolutions a minute cooling effect of about five tons of ice per day. At one hundred and ninety revolutions a minute it gives one third greater cooling effect. With cooling water, at from sixty to seventy degrees, it can make four tons of good ice daily. There are three ways of applying the coal produced by these machines-one is by the circulation of brine previously cooled by the machine; another by the direct circulation of air through pipes contained ill the room, and the other is by blowing air previously cooled by the action of the machine into the room broad cast"
 s'What do these ice-machines cost.''
 "One which has a capacity in actual ice product of one quarter of ton per day of equal to eight hundred pounds of melted ice in the same time, costs three thousand and twenty-five dollars with distilling apparatus and twenty-five hundred dollars without ap- paratus. If it is a case where steam can be supplied and boiler, etc., are not to be fur nished with it, the cost is five hundred dol lars. From this we make them that run all the way up to fifty tons of ice per day ca- pacity and hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds cooling effect. Such a one costs sixty-seven thousand five hundred dol lars with distilling apparatus, sixty thousand dollars without it and ten thousand dollars esting fact to you may be that oil may enter the freezing apparatus at ninety degrees and can be discharged at zero, while the machine also furnishes sufficient effect to keep the press room at temperature required for the operation of freezing.'