The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-01-09
ENGINE WORTH 100000.
Brambels Invention Sold to the Allen Syn
dictate.

Sleepy Rye, Mimi, Jan. 7-Grant
Brambel, telegraph operator and agent
at the station here, and elected Tuesday
an alderman Of this village, is now
orth $1,000. 600, it is said.
Mr.. Brambcl, who Is an EEglishman
Of thirty-three years, thus speaks of his
rotary engine, the right Of which he has
just sold to the Allen syndicate OF Eng
land-he will receive three-fourths Of
the money in cash:
first get the idea Of rotary engine
from the turbine wheel ] could not st Q
why steam could not do what water did,
especially when steam had qualities that
When little turbine is hit by column
of water no bigger than a pencil, some
thing has TO 60. Take small wheel,
mechanically correct, and turn against
it an inch steam jet at ono hundred
pounds or more, and allow for the steam
over?
81 knew that it was necessary to get
the greatest possible developm ent Of the
steam expansion in order to give sue
cess to the idea, and have been work
ing along this line for twelve years. 1t
took many models and great many
failures to get the thing right. / have
had engine after engine that seemed to
be perfect, and would spin along like q
top, only to stop when some uhexplain
able point was reached. Finally, abo ut
i've years ago, l hit the machine sub
stantially as 1t Ia today. Ny American
patents were granted year ago, and
now have patents in England, France,
Belgium, Germany and nearly all over
the world. The A len Engineering Syn
dictate, at the head of which is &. Fl.
Allen, Of the Allen Steamship Company,
of Liverpool, has purchased the right for
the machine for Europe ami for the
United States, the total for the two be.
ing 81. 10000
"There have been fourteen of the en-
gines built, all experimentally, and they
have been tested every here l could find
place for them, except on locomotives.
l have run circular saws with them up
to 1900 revolutions, emery wheels, GEN.
separators up to $500 revolutions and dy
uamos, all coupled direct to the engine.
They have been in use in elevator, hoist
ing works, boats and machine shops.
The largest engine, 25o horse power, has
bean in use in Trenton IN. J. dyna-
mo room since February last, giving the
best of satisfaction. 1t is about six by
Gig Ii teen inches on the floor, and stands
less than two feet high. 1t weighs three
hundred pounds and is run by 1aO
horse power boiler.
My inves ton relates to motors, and
particularly to rotary engines having rs-
versible concentric pfstons. The objects
in view are to provide a machine of sim
ple coustl uctioh with means for provid-
ing ths maximum expansion of steam,
to provide an improved construction of
piston whereby the force OF expansion
is ecGL mixed, and, furthermore, to
provide a simple and eff cient means for
lubricating and packing the piston. The
engine can be made straight running r
compound or triple expansion. To COM
pound an engine it Is only necessary 10
EXHAUST the steam In chest, lead it to q
second set of recesses In the periphery of
the piston aud use it over again there:
to double 1t a second chest aud third set
of recessss are cut in the periphery of
the piston. My little forty horse power
sim pie engine, run by a twenty horse
pu ner boiler, will indicate City when
compound, and about sixty-fivs when
tripled. / think it is doing pretty we'll
to get sixty five horsepower from the
of twenty horse pc wsr
boiler.