New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-11-18
IBRAMBELL's BIG UCK,I
A Wide-aWake Sleepy Eye Operator and
His Rotary Eng Inc.
An English EngineeringSy ndicateO Offers
Him s., 6OO, 600 for His Invention,
Accord ling to the Desc ription it Will Revo
lltionize Engine Building.

The readers Of the Review Of last week
will recall mention Of the fact that a
Sleepy Eye operator had been offered
81 300, 900 foran invention upon winch
he had been working for years. Shortly
after, mention Of the same fact occurred
in the Sleepy Eye papers and on Satur-
day the Minneapolis journal contained
the following:
II Hundreds Of men have made steam
and steam engineering q life study, but
It has remained for a Sleepy Eye man 10
make into practical working machine
an idea that, although old, is yet so new
that none of the thousands who have ex-
perimented with it have been able to
work it out. Grant Brambel OF this
place has recently received letters patent
on a rotary engine for which he has been
offered 100000, or $1,60O,OOO within
the past week.
This wonderful engine does away en-
tirely with the crank motion of the steam
engine, a most desirable but to all intents
and purposes an impossible thing to do.
In the ordinary type of cylinder engines
the steam enters at the end Of the cylin-
der, is cut off and use as expansion from
the Cutoff to the end of the stroke. The
Brambel rotary engine does away with
the crank motion, and uses its own plum
ger fol a cut off. The engine is steam
tight and requires no ring packing. It
can be made marine type and, of course,
can be either simple or compound. tits
not a cheap machine, although it costsve-
ry much less to build than the ordinary
engine. 1t weighs less and occupies on
ly a fraction Of the space of the old-style
engine. 1t is ~ wonderful machine, and
the working model weighed but twelve
pounds and seven ounces, vet was of
twenty three actual horse power.
Within the past few days Mr.. Brambel
has been offered the magnificent sum of
e32O, O00 for his patent. The offer comes
from Fl. F. Allen of London England, |
the president of a Bsitish engineering
syndicate, and it may s,,t he sAs.ny days
before the Inventor and patentse closes
with this offer and harvests weu-meri-
ted reward fog his twelve years. study on
his applications Of steam. Mr.. Bnalnl,el I
says:
"When any One Can build afifty horse
power engine that may be Carried a~ouna |
in hand satchel be has something that is
very valuable, paEticularly when that en-
CINE is adapted to. ANY and ain Kinds, Of /
work., wherever power is used The I
Brambe] engine of Fifty horse power,
less than 300 pounds, may be
attached to the end Of THE armasure Of AZ
dynam o'and all the betting done away
with, or u, Brambel engile, Lot larger
Than a common saucer, could he attached /!
to creamery separator and set it whirl~
ing at the rate Of G,50eN revolutions all
minute. The largest Of. these engines.
$50 horse power in size, is less than
foot WIDE At the base and eighteen isehes>A
nigh. It is~in use in a dynamo room. at
Trenton, N. j., and the firm say they. i
never had a more satisfactory machine.
The patent was obtained: a year ago,
since which, time several machines have
been built and put into use.
WILL DISFRANCHISE MANY. i