Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-11
PERPETUAL MOTION.
4 Pori'snd Inventor Building Motor on Tn,
Principle.

III the claims made by it's inven.or
and those who are Interested In hi. e.,
Vention are true, machine has been
perfected here in Portland. says tn.
Portland Press, which practicable
lsolves the problem of perpetual motion
and Will give to the world a rnotiy.
power self-supplying and capable ~
running mills, railroad trains and
steamships without the use of opa
pound OF steam or electricity or with
out the burning of coal, wood or other
fuel 10 obtain this power. once the ma
lchine is put in motion. This wonder
full self-supplyirg motor has already
been put TO the test in a small way
ard If the statements of many peonle
| in inns city are to be credited il has
done all that the inventor claimed /,
would do and more. So firmly do
| those VINO have investigated this ma
| chine believe in it, that $4,000 has been
subscribed by some Of Portland's most
| conservative capitalists and %
| horse power motor built after the
| plans furnished by the inventor il
now being constructed in a machine
/ shop in this city, and WILL within a
| week or two. be ready for its trial in
a building which has been leased for
1
the purpose.
The main portion of the engine Is a
heavy iron tank about }, feet long.
| four feet wide and three or four feet
| high. 1t is. in fact, simply a big iron
! box. air.tfght and capable of with
standing great pressure. In one end
Of this tank. as we shall call It, is fitted
a steel cylinder about two and one-h half
| feet high. The cylinder is 20 inches in
diameter and has at the bottom two
air valves, one being a suction valve
opening outside the tank, and the 9TH
er an escape valve opening into the
tank A steel piston fits into this
cylinder very tightly and the whole
forms simply an immense air punp
which when the piston is moved no
and down. forces the air into the. tank
in which the cylinder is placed The
steel rod which moves this piston nm
and down in the cylinder passes
through a tightly packed hole in the
ron Of the air tank and is connected
with the crank shaft of two 19O0-
mound iron fly wheels which are SIM.
ported above the tank. On this crank
shat, is also 6xed a cog wbe., soma-
thing like two feet in diameter the
use of which will he shortly explained
Some three feet in the rear of tbesa
l2O0- mound fy wheels are sunno,te6
two more dy wheels weighing c0o
pounds each and on the shaft which
supports them is fixed n big cog whccI
about five feet in diameter which fra
into the cog wheel already mentioned
as being placed on the crank shaft IN
which the pjstou rod of the air numn
is ATTACHED. To make this more nlaip
hereafter. we will call the air numn
crank shaft M. u and the second
shaft supporting the 6OO-pound Nv
wheel and the big cog wheel. No -"
Directly in the rear of shaft No. is
placed a compressed air engine with
a pair of 600-pound fly wheels, and the
shaft by which these are SUPPORTED is
connected with shaft No 2 BIZ a
sprocket wheel and chain, similar to
that seen on a bicycle only they are
much longer and stronger. This COM
pressed air engine, or auxiliary en-
CINE. as it is called, obtains it's power
from the compressed air in the tank
beneath it and the air in this tank is
compressed by the air pump already
described.
Now we have the machine COM
plete in rough state. Let us see how
the inventor says it will work To
commence with. the fly wheels which
operate the air pump or shaft No /.
are set revolving at great speed by
some outside energy. This will COM
press the air in the air tank by means
of the pump on the compressed air de-
ponds the machines power and when
enough of it is compressed to run the
auxiliary engine, the outside energy.
at first used for starting the machine
is removed.
Now the compressed air in the tank
presses down with great force on the
top of the cylinder of the air pupp and
this great weight forces the piston
downward into the air pump and this
turns the 1200-pound fly wheels
But on the upward stroke the weight
of air on the top of this piston is just
as great but the momentum of the big
l2Oo-pound fly wheels. the inventor
claims, will pull this piston upwards.
even against the air pressure within
the tank. to within one-third Of the