The Saint Paul globe., 1896-11-21

working along this line for twelve
years. 1t took many models and a
great many failures to get the thing
right. I have had engine after engine
that seemd to be perfect, and would
spin along like top, only to stop when
some unexplainable point was reached.
I have had problem after problem,
and, finally, about five years ago,
hit the machine substantially as it is
today. Since then all the experiments
have been in the line of possible i'm
provements, but haven't found many,
and 1 think-I believe-it will be hard
to get anything simpler, more power
full or better in it's way than what J
have. My American patents were
granted a year ago next month, and T
now have patents in England, France,
Belgium, Germany, and nearly all over
the world The Allen Engineering Syn
dicate, at the head of which is F. H.
Allen of the Allen Steamship COM
pany, Of Liverpool, has made me offers
for the universal patent right for the
machine, and have finally closed with
1t this week for 100000, to be paid in
, cash within a very brief time, pro.
vided the machine comes up to the re,
Quirements of the contract. I've got
the offer Of the company in my pocket
now. The men in the syndicate are
the sum they've offered me-
Il do not in the least fear that my
machine won't come
UP TO THE REQUIREMENTS.
I know it will do better. There have
been fourteen Of the engines built, all
eXperimentally, and they've been tested
them except on locomotives. I've run
circular saws with them up to 1,200
revolutions, emery wheels, centrifugal
fans and blowers, creamery separators
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 it would cost consider
able, as the drive wheels would have
to be changed and extra weight, to give
the traction power an ordinary locOmo-
tive gets from the weight Of it's machin-
cry, would have to be added. So
have not tried locomotive yet. The
largest engine, $50 horse power, has
mo-room since February last, giving
the best Of satisfaction. How big do
you suppose that engine is? 1t is about
6x1S inches on the floor and stands less
than two feet high. 1t weighs 300
pounds and is run by a 120-horse power
boiler. srs s.c'~
'T let the Allen people know about
a year ago what I had, and they've
been after it since. Probably it could
be sold for a bigger price. In fact, A.
G. Phillips, of London, was here Tues
day this week and raised the Allen
offer $4,000. He had the highest let
ters of credit and Of introduction and is
noted engineer. But the rights were
already sold, providing the Allen peo-
pie take UP their option, and 1 can do
nothing now"
my invention" says Mr. Brambel,
relates to motors, and particularly to
rotary engines having reversible con-
centric pistons; the objects in view are
to provide a machine Of simple con-
struction, with means for providing
the maximum expansion of steam, to
provide an improved construction Of
piston whereby the force Of expansion
is economical, and, furthermore, to
provide simple and efficient means for
lubricating and packing the piston.
1.-THE engine can be made straight
running, like the one in the baby chair,
reversible like those in the drawings,
and both simple, like all those, or COM
pound or triple expansion. To COM
pound an engine it is only necessary
to exhaust the steam into a chest, lead
it to a second set of recesses in the
periphery Of the piston and use it over
again there; to triple it, a second chest
and third set of receSSeS are cut in the
periphery Of the piston. My little forty
horsepower simple engine, run by a
twenty-horse-p boiler, will indi-
cate fifty when compound and about
SiXty-five when tripled / think it is
doing pretty we'll to get siXty-f1ve horse
power from the coal consumtion of a
twenty-horse-powe boiler. By the re-