Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-14

the ire-pet. where passing through rows
of small holes the gas ignites and burns
with q clear, bright flame like q jet of illu-
minating gas from a burner.
BY this method it is claimed, and appar-
emily justly so. that the gases generated by
sumed, or nearly so, whereas by the COM
mon direct draught system at present in
use, almost all the gases are lost by pass
ing directly up the fue, and so out into the
open air. Another advantage arising from
the use of the patent Is that the foul
smelling, sooty, black smoke incident to
the usual mode of burning fuel, is almost
entirely absent. But greater than these
two advantages is the fact that the waste
of the heat-producing properties of fuel is
reduced to a minimum, and there is a con-
sequent large reduction in the amount. of
fuel used. The heat emitted is much
greater and far more regular than by the
Old method of producing combustion, and
it can be more easily and satisfactorily
regulated.
All this was explained to the committee,
and then was ~substantiated by a thorough
and practical test. Six pounds of Dakota
Ignite coal was placed in the fire-pot and
ignited at 2:44 O'Clock p. m. At BIS the
oven OF the stove had reached baking heat,
cook. At S:25L the biscuits were taken
out we'll cooked, crisp, light and brown. Ry
way of comparison, fourteen pounds of
Ignite was placed IN an ordinary cook
stove without the patent attachment. and
eighteen minutes later, although the fuel
was burning freely, the oven and surface
Of the stove were but slightly heated, GER
tainly nothing near a baking heat, it being
evident that the heat-producing gases were
passing to waste up the 1ue. A kettle of
water placed on the back part OF the stove
to which the device was attached,
boiled almost as o o as the biscuit we're
baked.
1t was further pointed out by Capt. Groes-
beck, who clearly explained the principle
of the arrangement, that there could be no
such thing as burning out a stove in the
manner the old system does, and there be-
ing no rapid cooling off or heating up,
there would not be that sudden expansion
or contraction which so materially aids in
breaking up a stove run on the old plan.
Applied to a heater or a furnace, there
would be a minimum consumption of fuel
with a maximum amount of heat by the
adoption of the patent, and at the same
time there would be the smallest possible
emission Of gas or smoke, and next to no
| waste at all.
The committee were greatly pleased
with the test, and it is believed will make
a favorable report to their company, in
which case it will not be very long before
a stove mandatory will be started in st.
Paul. This will no doubt lead eventually
to a more or less general use of Ignite
coal for fuel, and upon the complete sue
cess of the patent will depend the solution
Of the problem of the use of ignite as a
common fuel. In districts where btu
min0us and anthracite Goals are dear by
reason of having to be hauled from dis
tant Goa! fields, and where Ignite is found
in abundance in the immediate neighbor-
hood, IS, for instance, in Montana, Dakota,
and Missouri, the introduction of this de-
vice will prove an inestimable boon, and
there is but little doubt of its extensive
adoption throughout the northwest.