Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-08
NO MORE NEED FOR ICE.
A Wonderful Refrigerating Method on
Fxhibition In this City.

There IS on exhibition in one OF the
rooms of the old Court House one oil
the most wonderful systems OF produe-
ing cold, without the use OF either cosby
and complicated machinery, or Ice, ever
brought to the attention OF the puoilc
in a practical way, and OF scores OF
peopIe who have examined the method
during the past week or so, not one ouI
has expressed his amazement at the
SIMPLICITY of the system and the excel
lent results attained. The process EN-
Moved is based on the Rossi and Smith
patents. the property OF the Uni
yersal Refrigerating Company, OF wash
ington, d. c., and the agent used Is
what is termed ''refrigerine salts" an
article not unlike common course salt
in Appearance, odorless, almost taste
less. and composed OF number OF min
eral salts. costing little to manufacture,
but which, when mixed with water, pro-
duces a brine which almost instantly
falls far below the freezing point OF
water.
The process employed can, perhaps,
be best conveyed to the reader by de-
scription of the appliance in use
at the Court House, which,
while somewhat crude, amply. il
Illustrates the idea and demonstrates
its many admirable qualities. A large
refrigerator, having two compartments
above and two below, is fit led, in one OF
the upper compartments, with sheet
iron tank, holding perhaps ten gallons.
From this tank a coil of two-inch pipe
runs back and forth across the interior
rear wall of the refrigerator. Behind
the refrigerator is tub, containing
worm of inch pipe, connected at one
end with the hydrant pipe. The water
conducted through this worm is first
cooled down to about so degrees by pass
ing through the worm, which is i'm
merSed in 4 saturated solution OF the
brine, and is then conducted by grav-
ity into the tank in the refriger-
ator. when the cooled water Is
used to again form brine, which
sinks to temperature of about II or
II degrees. This intensely cold brine
is then run into the coil OF pipe in the
back of the refrigerator, where it fur
nishes a degree of cold sufficient To
bring the chambers, in one hour, TO
temperature which would require TWEEN
ty-four hours with ice. This is the
apparatus now in use here, but the
model of a special refrigerator is shown,
carving out the ideas in much more
simple and convenient form, and in such
a manner as TO not only ensure the cool
ing of articles placed in the storage cham
beers. but also to freeze ice, If needed for
any special purpose, cool water for
drinking purposes right from the by
drant, freeze ice cream, and perform
many other things desirable in private
families. hotels, butcher shops, restau-
rants, etc. The brine need be renewed
but once in twenty-four hours, and can
then be evaporated and the salt used
over and over again, perhaps hundred
times. The air in the refrigerating
chamber is at all times perfectly dry,
pure and sweet, and no possible harm
eau result from the use Of the salt or
the resulting brine.
In the presence of the writer yester-
day, handful of salt. taken from an
open barrel, was mixed with pint OF
water. and Il thermometer plunged into
the brine sank in % seconds to - de-
grees above zero, while water thrown
on the outside of the vessel instantly
froze in sheets of ice.
The value of this process can scarce
ly be estimated, and its simplicity and
wide range of adaptability, insures its
universal use in very short time, as
the cost of the plant is nominal and its
operation simplicity itself. Mr.. w. j.
W. Cowden holds the right for West |
Virginia, and will organize local COM
pany at once.