The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-05-17
GREAT BOON TO I'LL MANKIND
An Invention That Appeals to Rich
and Poor Alike.
Every One His Own Iceman. Carbon
Dioxide in Pipes to Supplant Cakes
of CONCEALED Water. Cool Air
for SICK Rooms. All by
Turning a Tap.

a company hhS eeen formed to send
GOODNESS around in pipes, so that man
can turn 8 tap in his own house and
produce temperature of 100 degrees be-
low zero as easy as wink.
This scheme simply is the we'll known
plan of icemaking by the liquefaotion
and subsequent incorporation of gases,
except that the gas is carbon dioxide in
stead OF ammonia, and that it il convey
ed around town i'll pipes in liquid form
and applied TO anything that is TO be
cooled or frozen. The raw materials
used are soft coal and limestone The
products are carbon dioxiole, CONNER
clal lime, carbonate of ammonia and
coal tar. 1t is by producing the last three
together with the dioxido that the di-
oxide itself is made cheap enough for
general use The conl is supplied to re.
tcrts and subjected to destructive distil-
latlon In nearly the same manner as in
ordinary gas works, the tar and am
moniacal liquor being separated, the
former being sold i'll that state and the
latter distilled and converted into car
Donate OF ammonia, packed and sold.
The coke is converted into semiwater
gas, which is used to calcine the lime
stone. The dioXide is cooled, purified,
compressed and hquified in the Same
way as in other manufactures and then
conveyed by its own pressure through
distributing pipes or sold in vessels. as
may be preferred, One good ton Of soft
coal and BIS tons of limestone, it is
said, will produce $500 pounds of lime,
5000 pounds of carbon dioXide, gal
Ions OF coal tar and 90 pounds Of car
Donate Of ammonia.
Tho prospects of comfort, cleanliness
and economy held out by the company
are enough to produce the most delight
full conlmotion III tho breasts of house
keepers. OF course the first point to
which every one will want the dioxidc
conveyed will be his refrigerator. Tho
days when tho refrigerator must he filled
with blocks of ice as heavy as stone and
full OF bacteria from country swamps arc
nearly over, In place Of this it will have
n few innocent looking iron pipes around
the sides. Mary viii turn small tap.
the dioXide will rush through the pipes
with noise like steam, the pipes will
become coated with ice. and everything
IN the refrigerator would he frozen solid
II 1t were not for II single device at
tached to the pipes. This is nothing less
than thormoStat, which regulates the
cold This is adjusted to any degree of
frigidity desired, and tho moment that
limit is reached the dioxide is automat
ically checked
leo cream Is what the dioxide particu-
larly delights in. The freezer is cncir-
cied with coil of pipe, and when the
dioNde PUSHES through that coil the
cream congeals before one can count ten
THAT is, it wopld if desired, but it is
necessary TO stir the cream rs it freezes.
and this, too, is done by tho dioxidc,
Tor the waste Of tho gas is turned into
an engine, tho engine works q crank,
and the crank turns the freezer and stirs
the cream. This invention also furnishes
ace water without ice. A great many
people would rather drink warm water
than water into which ice Of unknown
antecedents had melted But hereafter
ne has only to set his drinking water in
the refrigerator and be sure to fix the
fhermostat right, so that it will not
come out a chunk of ice.
The company is not quite ready vet
70 guarantee that customer can cool
hls parlor or bedroom with Il jet Of diox-
1de, and yet 1t does not hesitate to say
that in cases of illness it may be the
means OF alternating the patients suf-
1erings and sometimes saving his life.
A COLL OF pipe may be arranged in mar
row space between a wall and screen.
and draft at once will be created which
Will lower the temperature of the room.
In many cases a coil under the mattress
Will cool the bed and keep a patient in
comfort who might otherwise die of the
heat. The device, therefore, is certain
10 become, at some timo or other, one of
the best appliances in well regulated
hospitals.
From these solemn uses the dioxide
may be turned to others, which are
enough, on the first flush, to cause
smile. For instance, it will furnish alb
solute security against the ravages of
moths. What people need who have
costly furs to preserve through the sum-
mer Is not camphor and pepper. but
dioxide. They should pack their things
In trunk and then spray them with
this gas 1t is heavier than common air.
and when it is once in the trunk and
the trunk IS shut it will stay there for
ever Tho moths will stay there also.
but they will be dead, for no moth can
live in this gas.
Finally every customer for dioxido
becomes his own frn,oaD JS-Io -