Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-27
GENIUS TRIUMPHANT.
A Pneumatic Automatic Machine
Side-Tracks All Opposition.
WILL REVOLUTIONIZE THE WORLD.
Not Much Longer Will Coal be Needed to
Give Motive Power.
THE ACTUAL RESULTS IMAGINED

Mr.. L. C. Weltner, of Uniontown, has in
vented machine which be calls pneu-
matte automatic machine, which be pro-
poses to put on the market and which, if it
accomplishes all the inventor claims for it,
will spread smiling plenty from Behring's
Strait to Cape Horn and from the
mouth of the Lena to the Cape
Of Good Hope, enabling day laborers to
avail themselves OF pleasures that at pres
ent only royal revenues can reach. The ap-
pended description will give faint idea of
the machine, but to get complete one, the
reader must hear Mr.. Weltner himself. as
he has, he states, improved so much on the
original model that the description at hand
is inadequate. The machine is the product
of 26 years thought and experiment and
model at a cost of over $1,000, Mr.. Weltner
saws. proved the complete success of the
idea. Mr.. Weltner was in the city yester-
day and to DISPATCH reporter said:
AN OLD THEORY DIsPRovEN.
"The machine is a pneumatic generator of
motive power, and disproves the assertion that
in mechanics what is gained in power is lost in
time, The machine consists of a series of
tanks inelosed. the one within the other. Into
each tank extends air pump, and by tins
means Is pounds Of air pressure is pumped INTO
pounds into the third 10 pounds into the
fourth, 240 into the fifth, and $50 pounds
into the sixth. On the other side OF the
machine there is another series OF pumps,
the pistons Of which work in cylinders Of differ
ent areas running down from one inch TO one
thirty-second OF an inch. These are all con-
nected and operated by cylinder located |
overhead for that purpose. On the largest |
cylinder there is valve that opens to the air |
and forces it into the tank at Is pounds pres |
sure, the pistons forcing in the air on rising |
mn. when thew come down the valves are |
closed automatically, and in this way the air |
pressure is doubled over and over again. |
As the force generated is much greater |
than the resistance. the surplus can be used to |
compress more air, SO that once charged, the |
machine generates its own motive power. |
Take for example machine Of six condensers; |
the force of that motor would be l,59O pounds, |
the resistance 20 pounds, leaving surplus OF |
l,S2O pounds.
A PRESSURE SELDOM NEEDED
Under this principle it will be seen that ma |
chimes of all sizes and for all pur- |
poses can be built. The great pressure |
OF $50 pounds to the square inch |
is one seldom neeoed, and all the varying de- |
grees of pressure downward TO that necessary |
to impel a sewing machine can be procured
The expense of constructing generators is /
small. comparatively, and for operating merely 1
nominal, as when finished the only cost Is the |
keeDnE I6DdIs 4ulS upLCso6u al Will D6 i
made take the place of steam on railways, /
rivers. lakes. oceans, in the rolling mill and |
factories Of all kinds.
Power can be gotten without loss Of time. /
and when the generator is once changed by /
extraneous effort which need not be great the /
machine will subsequently recruit its energy 1
itself as fast as il is exhausted. In short time
steam power will 90 out OF use as expensive,
cumbrous and dangerous Electricity will be /
produced so cheaply that it will take the place
of coal for lighting, cooking and general heat
ing. An apparatus three feet square will run
street car, superceding electricity and all other
motive power.
HORSES NEEDED NO MORE.
Pleasure carriages. buggies and farm wagons
will be run by it; plowing, sowing and reaping
done BY its aid, and horses will only be bred by
the rich as luxuries or for the preservation Of
the genus in museums, like the buffalo. Man
ufactures will be so cheap that the laborer can
array himself and family in purple and fine
linen and, in short the widest luxuriance of |
is necessary to family perceive
the revolution that will be worked. The only
drawback that suggests itself will be the read
iustment of interests and avocations that the
invention will necessitate. The owners of our
immense coal deposits will find them lie
inert until some new use to take its place for
fuel is found.
slSince the DAYS however, when British agri-
cultural laborers burned agricultural ma
chinery and mobbed those who used it the
world has tired Of kicking against the naggings !
and the manifest advantage to be gained by the
use of air as motive power will soon reduce
friction and when a family wants 10 take an
airing il get into its carriage, set the pneu-
matte automatic machine in operation and one
member at the helm can pilot the vehicle and
the only subsequent cost will be that of repairs.
After the trifing expenditure Of getting start
in the world mere existence will be a
pleasure"