The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-18
WONDERFUL POWER.
Inventor WeltneT Claims Steam Will
Soon Be Obsolete.
he Proposes to Make the Wheels Go
Round by Pneumatic Automatic
Motors-Claims Fabulous Ability to
Create Power From the Atmosphere.


Motors-Claims Fabulous Ability to
Create Power From the Atmosphere.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
L. 9. Weltner, of Uniontown, Pa, is the
patentee OF series Of pneumatic-autema-
tic motors and generators which he claims
will completely revolutionize the applica-
ton OF motive power. Speaking Of his in
ventions aud what he expects them to &C
complish, MIR. Weltner said yesterday:
I'm short time steam power will go
out of use, as expensive, cumbersome and
dangerous, and other similar powers will
only be known by their existence in the
past. Electricity will be produced so
cheaply ii will take the place of coal for
lighting, cooking and general heating. An
apparatus three feet square will run
street car, superseding electricity and all
other present systems Of motive power.
Pleasure carriages, farm, street and road
wagons will be run by the use of those
machines or inventions; blowing, moving,
sowing and reaping done by their aid, and
horses will only be bred by the rich as
luxuries or for the preservation of. the
genus in museums, like the buffalo.
Manufactures will be so cheap that
the laborer can array himself and family
IN purple and fine linen, and, In short, the
widest Injuries of imagination are neces-
sary to family perceive the revolution
that Will be worked, The owners of our
immense coal deposits will find them lie
inert until some new use TO take its place
for fuel is found
Since the days when the British agri-
cultural laborer burned agricultural ma
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the world has tired of kicking against
the manifest advantages to be gained.
Inc use OF air as motive power will
soon reduce friction, and when a family
wants TO take an airing it can get into its
| carriage and by the easy adjustment of
valve set the pneumatic-autOmatic ma
chimes in operation and one member at
the helm can pilot the vehicle, and the
only subsequent cost will be that of re-
pairs. After the triHing expenditure of
getting start in the world mere exist
| ence will be pleasure"
Dir. Weltner has developed his inven-
lions at an expenditure of ten years
scientific research. His first model was
developed at a cost of over 8, 900 over
five years ago, and he has made great i'm
provements since. The inventor says his
machines are pneumatic generators of
motive power, which disproves the asser-
ton that in mechanics what is gained in
| power is lost in time. In his talks on his
machine he first calls attention to the
combination air compressor or pneu-
matte generator" which consists of
series of strongly constructed air receiv-
| ers or tanks, placed in groups by the
| side of each other. The combination, he
says, is transposable like the scale in
| music, and Mr.. Weltner has perfected
| design which he calls his "pneumatic
scale and chart Of construction" by
which calculations can readily be made
on machines of various sizes and designs.
| To illustrate the principle Of his ma
| chimes, Mr.. Weltner continued:
Suppose air receivers are used rang
ing in number from six to nine or more,
| duly connected and securely attached by
strong pipes to those tanks or receivers
or air condensers or pumps with valves in
their seats at each end of condensers, one
opening upward and the other downward
at one end OF condensers, while another
| valve opens upward and another down
ward at the other end of condensers that
are double acting and stand vertically up
| right on a suitable bedplate made sta
| tionary over the receivers or tanks that
! are grouped in box below In those
condensers are tightly-fttlng pistons,
made fast 10 piston and shank rods,
knuckled together and connecting with
| guides and cranks made fast to a line of
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a suitable distance above and
Immediately over the lined group of air
! condenSers or pumps Turning this shaft
| ing by external application viii cause the
cranks placed thereon to revolve and form
each OF them an Independent circuitous
action; when this is done the pistons in
their air condensers or pumps will move
alternately backward and forward from
one end to the other, causing the valves
in the condensers to open and close up
ward and downward automatically. and
| in their action transfer atmosphere from
| lower TO higher densities in succession
| from one receiver to another, completing
IN one revolution of the shaft a general
| and complete successive transfer from
lowest to highest densities."
To further Illustrate, Mr.. Weltner
makes calculation based on six conden-
sers, supposlng they have generated
| in them by external agency atmosphere in
! densitieS ranging ''l5-30-60-l2 and $50
| pounds to the square inch, as indicated
! by guages, and that the areas of the pis-
tons successfully transferring those diff
ferent bodies of atmosphere from one re-
| ceiver TO another contain respectively,
64-32-l6-S-4 and 3 square inches, thus
making the area of the second piston
half the size of the fifth, In manipulate
| ing this combination of pistonS air Is all
the time given off to apply power in
| It's expansion on compound
engine designed for the purpose from a
pressure of 4S0 pounds to the square inch
back to its original limits, while it is
meantime being replaced from one re-
! yer to another in uniform densities as
formerly given.
SIN order to determine the ratio Of gain
from power in expansion compared with
resistance in compression the following
stated calculations will give a conclusive
! idea We find that when pressure of
| Is pounds TO the square inch is genera ted
in the first receiver the mean resistance
TO the square inch on the piston where
air is drawn from its normal density in
the first condenser throughout the stroke
is approximate of 9as pounds, this piston
having an area of GA square inches would
give 1t mean resistance of 800 pounds
throughout its stroke, because 03S times
Ga is 600. The second piston having an
area of 80 square inches and a mean of
1881 pounds to its square inch, has re-
sistance throughout the stroke in its
condenser of 800 pounds, the same as the
first.
at viii be observed that while the
density of the atmosphere increases by
successive doubling from Is pounds to $50
pounds TO the square inch the area of the
pistons decreases in the same ratio, CIV
ing q uniform resistance of 600 pounds
each, making a total of 5000 pounds re-
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