The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-04-25
FOR HOME INDUSTRY !
A Valuable Patent is on the
Market.
WHAT TIE INVENTION Is
Prof. L. A. Freeman Has an option on it,
and Believes That Syndicate of shen-
andoah People Would Find in it a Very
Profitable Investment.

Yesterday the HERALD made brief
reference to the fact that Prof. L. A.
Freeman, formerly superintendent of the
public schools of this borough, and at
present resident of Providence, r. l.,
was in the town to visit friends and in
cidentally to give some of the people an
opportunity to become Interested in a
valuable patent which could be made the
nucleus of an extensive and prosperous
industry.
| The announcement was brief because
we had not sufficient time to put the re-
suits of an investigation of Mr.. Freeman's
project into print but we now take the
| pleasure of giving them in full and ask
| that the reader give them careful con-
sideration, as we firmly believe that with
some Of our prominent people, who have
| capital to invest properly organized and
with the same spirit which was shown i'm
| the establishment of the electric light,
| heat and power, hat and cap and other
companies, Shenandoah can be given an
| industry that will not only give employ
ment to a large number of men and boys
| at good wages, but will also afford prof.
| BILE Investment and lead to the es-
| tablishment of one of the largest and
most important plants in the country.
The secret of this to-be-salvation for
| Shenandoah Gf some Of the people Of the
| town wish to make it SOY is a patent upon
which Mr.. Freeman has an option for
| limited time. 1t is a valuable one and if
the Shenandoah people do not take hold
of it a Providence, X. l., firm will
1t may seem strange to some people
that little coal region town like Shenan-
doah should be in a position to compete
with such pretentious manufacturing
| city as Providence, yet it is fact. Mr.
Freeman was for several years one OF the
| most prominent and active residents of
this town and left it only because he
| found no opening in field he desired. He
| gave up the uperintendency of the public
| schools because he yearned for the more
| active and remunerative life offered by
the commercial world and sought that
| busy little manufacturing state, Rhode
| Island, as a field.
1t was while casting his lines about in
this field that Mr., Freeman accidentally
| discovered the patent which he now has
| in hand for limited time, and the first
| thought that occurred to him was that
| Shenandoah, his old home, would be just
| the place to manufacture under the pat.
ent. The unlimited supply of coal at first
| cost, an abundance of water and labor,
and other advantages which have been
| made features in the arguments for years
! past to show that Shenandoah is an eX-
| cellent place for industries again inn
pressed themselves upon Mr.. Freemau's
mind and he concluded to couple business
with pleasure and give his former towns
men an opportunity which they may
never have again. That is how the people
of Shenandoah became a competitor with
Providence.
And now for the patent. 1t is self
lubricating stop-cock and is at present the
sore property of the inventor He has
! been manufacturing under it for the past
three or four years and has been content
with an income of about - 600 p year as
his profit. The stOp-COck has been adopted
by the Providence Gas Company and over
5000 are now in use on its lines The
PawtuckeU Or. ~ and TautOn (Mass) gas
companies have also recently adopted it,
but owing to the easy going nature of the
inventor the patent is known to hardly
any place outside of the three places
named
1t is well known by gas filters and others
that "A few months after a gas meter has
so dry that it can be turned only with
difficulty and liability to injury Hereto
fore projecting chambers for holding
lubricating fluid have been employed but
these have been found to be impracticable
on account of the various positions i'm
which a gas service cock must be placed,
often in inaccessible positions in which
the socket wrench must be used TO turn
the plug The object of the invention
under consideration is to provide a gas
service cock with permanent supply of
lubricant. This invention consists of a
gas service provided with plug having a
head adopted for a socket wrench and a
reservoir chambe for the lubricant, which
spreads between the shell and the plug in
both directions by capillary attraction,
thus insuring perfect and continued lubr-
cation. The inventor also has patent for
n iV1Ta m ha ha
stop-cock can also be used on water and
other pipes
Mr.. Freeman is not selling stock for
any company which is manufacturing
under this invention or trying to hypothi
cate any securities, but, as previously
stated, has an option for the disposal of
the patent to any syndicate he may name
Should the people of Shenandoah decide
to form that syndicate they will have the
sole right which every gas company, it
would seem, must pronounce an lndis-
pensible article. These gas cocks last
| lifetime. Before adopting them the gas
company of Providence required a new
supply of at least 1,200 new stop cocks
annually, aud as fast as the old style are
taken out those manufactured under this
patent are put in their place.
The intention is to have a few Shenan-
doah people form a syndicate, buy the
patent outright and start a manufactur-
ing plant in Shenandoah. The field is a
large one. The spread of the systems of
I illumination by electricity has been very
great, so much so that many believe gas
companies have gone with the past ages
but very few people know that there are
over one thousand gas companies in the
United States at the present time and, of
course, all use stop-cocks, but only three
use selflubricating stop-cocks and they
are by no means supplied.
This is a matter for serious considera-
tion on the part of some of our townsmen.
Here is valuable patent endorsed by ex-
cellent authorities and it can be solely
manufactured in Shenandoah. If Provi-
dence firm employing over a thousand