New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-11-25
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steam xpansion in order to give success
to my idea, and have been working a.
long that line for twelve years. It took
great many many models and q great
many failures to get the thing right. 1
have had engine after engine tharseemed
to be perfect, and would spin along like
a top,only to stop when some unexplain-
able point was reached. hare had
problem after problem, and finally about
five years ago. hit the machine substan-
TALLY as it is to-day. Since then all the
experiments have been in the line Of pos
sible improvements, but haven't found
many, and 7 think-I believe-it will be
hard to get anything simpler, more pow
erful or better in its way than what I
have. My American patents we're grant
ed year ago next month, and now
have patentsin England, France, Bel elgium,
Germany, and nearly all over the world.
The Allen Engineering Syndicate, at the
head of which is F. Fl. Allen of the AL
len Steamship company Of Liverpool, has
made me offers for the universal patent
light for the machine, and | have finally
closed with it this week for 1890, 900, to
be paid in cash within a very b.ief time.
provided the machine comes up to the
requirements of the contract. I've got
the offer Of the company in my pocket
now. The men in the syndicate are alb
solately responsible for many times the
sum they've offered me. '.s-.. :
81 do not in the least fear that MY ma
chine won't come up to the requirements.
| know it will do BETTER. There have
been fourteen of the. engines built, all
experimentally, and they've been tested
everywhere could find place for them
except on LOGON olives. Pye run c1rcu.
lar saws with them up to 1900 revolu-
tions, emery wheels, centrifugal fans and
blowers, creamery sepa.ators up to $500
revolutions, and dynamos, all coupled
direct to the engine. They have been
IN use in elevators, hosting works, boats
and machine shops. The Baldwin Works
offered to put one on a locomotive, but
1t would cost considerable, as the drive
wheels would have to be changed, and
extra weight, to give the traction power
an ordinary locomotive gets from the
weight of It's machinery, would have to
be added. So have not tried loco
motive yet. The largest engine, $50
horse power, has been in use in a Tren-
ton, N. j., dynamo. room since February
last, giving the best of satisfaction. How
big do you suppose that engine is? It is
about 1S inches on the floor and
stands less than two feet high. It weighs
800 pounds and is run by 120 horse
power boiler.
81 let the Allen people know about a
year ago what had, and they've been
after it since, Probably it could be sold
for bigger price. In fact, A. G.. Phil
lips of London was here Tuesday of this
week and raised the Allen offer $50 O,OOO
He had the highest letters of credit and
of introduction and is not,.; engineer.
But the rights were already sold, provid-
ing the Allen people take up their op-
ton, and I can do nothing now.' ..
Meanwhile the inventor is calmly at
tending to his duties as operator and
station agent, taking train orders, selling
tickets to New Ulm and St. Peter, look
ing after freights, receiving grain reports,
and acting as consulting engineer for all
the home people who want to survey lots
or lay out a race track. Apparently he
is the coolest man in town over turn in
fortunes wheel that has set all southern
Minnesota agog. .r
Nothing is discussed along the lines
of road, that run up the Minnesota val
ley, but the Brambel engine. It is the
theme in trains, in hotels, at court, CT ta-
bic. Men who have never seen it de-
claim vociferously of its merits or deny
its possibility, they tell of its inventor
and there is more gossip about him al
ready floating about in that section than
would be possible for any manto father
in a lifetime. Very few people, by the
way, have ever seen the engine, or can
imagine how it looks.
s.My invention" says Mr.. Brambel,,
""relates to motors, and particularly to
rotary engines having reversible concen-
trio pistons; the esobjects IN view are to
provide a machine#o Of simple construc-
ton, with means for providing the max
imum expansion. Of steam, to provide an
improved construction Of piston where
by the force OF expansion is economized,
and, further-lnore, to provide simple