The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-08-02
4 NEW STEAM PUMP.

The attention of our readers is called
in this issue to the Davidson Steam
Pump, of which the Risdon Iron and
Locomotive Works, of San Francisco,
have the exclusive agency for the Pacific
Coast. 1t is stated that the Spreckels
Sugar Refinery of Philadelphia, is now
having built six of these Pumps, of the
plunger pattern, varying from Is inch to
II inch, steam and water cylinder, "a
inch stroke.
For the Brooklyn Water Works, a
triple expansion pumping engine, with
steam cylinders, 8 inch, IA inch and "a
inch, water cylinder "a inch and stroke
"a inch, steam pressure 100 pounds.
They are also setting up at the Water
Works station of the Laconia & Lake
Village Water Co., Lake Village, n. H.,
a pair of compound pumping engines,
steam cylinders IA inch and rs inch,
water cylinders Is inch, stroke "a inch /;
these pumps are constructed so as to
work as a pair of duplex pumps or as
two single pumps working Independent
the change can be made while pumps
are running or at rest-this is patented
feature of our pumps; it saves the wear
and tear on one of the pumps when one
is able to do the work; or in case of
break down on one of the pumps, it does
not necessitate the shutting down of the
other. Four pumping engines, plunger
pattern, are working under this principle
at the Brooklyn Water Works, steam
cylinders 26 inch and 4S inch, water
cylinder "a inch, stroke SO inch; there is
also pair of plunger pumps at Fall
River, Massachusetts, same principle,
steam cylinder 26 inch and AZ % water
cylinder X SO stroke.
A pair of compound sewerage pump
ing engines steam cylinders 10x20x14
water cylinder x24 stoke is now being
built to work single or duplex; these
pumps are for birmingham, Massa
chusetts, also a pair of pumps for the
Milford CONN Water Works, to work
single or duplex, size our regular No. 10
pressure pump also two No. 9 and two
No. 10 and two No. IL regular pressure
pumps to work single or duplex for ele-
vator duty. Two pumps for the Weide-
man Silk Dyeing Company, Paterson,
New Jersey, steam cylinder 24x22 water
cylinder "a stoke, a duplicate order from
the North Attleboro Water Works, North
Attleboro, Massachusetts for pumping
engine steam cylinder 18x34x15 water
cylinder x24 stoke, piston pattern; order
from the Pennsylvania Steel Company
for two pumps IA stoke cylinder x14
water cylinder x18 stoke; Morgan Iron
Works, New York City, for No. and
pressure pump and six evaporators
--four--four thousand, and two--six thou
sand gallons in twenty-four hours for
six steam ships building by them. A
pair of compound boiler feed pumps
steam cylinders 8x14x7 water cylinder
x12 stoke with air pump and condenser
for Electric Light Plant, Brooklyn. Two
No. AZ distillers for Carmp & Sons,
Philadelphia four pumps for the U. S.
S. Concord and Bennington, steam cy-
Under IA, circulating cylinder Is, two
air cylinders 18 and bilge cylinder 4.
A gold medal was awarded this pump
blythe Massachusetts Charitable Mech
,anic Association, one of, if not the old
est of it's kind in the country---money
cannot buy a gold medal from this
Association merit alone secures it, and
it was won from large number of ex-
hibitors of steam pumps.
The Brooklyn Water Works have nine
of the Davidson Pumping Engines. The
Risdon Iron and Locomotive Works
have constantly on hand full line of
all the varied sizes of these pumps Or
dinarily used.