The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-01-20
Engine Worth $1,000, 900.

SLEEPY EYE, MINI, Jan 7.--Grant
Brambel, telegraph operator and agent
at the station here, and elected Tues
day an alderman of this village is now
worth 1000, 900, it is said.
Mr.. Brambel, who is an English
man of 80 years, thus speaks of his
rotary engine, the right Of which he
has just sold to the Allen syndicate
of England-he will receive three
fourths of the money in cash:
II first got the idea Of rotary en-
CINE from the turbine wheel. l could
not see why steam could not do what
water did, especially when steam had
qualities that water lacked and which
we're essential. When little turbine
is hit by column of water no bigger
than a pencil, something has to 60.
Take small wheel, mechanically cor
rect, and turn against it an inch steam
jet at 100 pounds or more, and allow
for the steam expansion, and why
won't you get power?
knew that it was necessary to get
the greatest possible development Of
the steam expansion in order to give
success to the idea, and I have been
working along this line for twelve
years. It took many models and a
great many failures to get the thing
right. I have had engine after engine
that seemed to be perfect, and would
spin along like top, only to stop
when some unexplainable point was
reached. Finally, about five years
ago, hit the machine substantially
as it is to-day. My American patents
were granted a year ago, and now
have patents in England, France, Bel
GUM, Germany and nearly all over the
world. The Allen Engineering Syn
dicate, at the head of which is Z. Il.
Allen, of the Allen Steamship Com
pany, Of Liverpool, has purchased the
right for the machine for Europe and
for the United States, the total for
the two being 81, 100, 20.
There have been fourteen Of the
engines built, all experimentally, and
they have been tested everywhere I
could find place for them except on
locomotives. I have run circular saws
with them up to 1900 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, hoist
ing works, boats and machine shops.
The largest engine, 250 horsepower,
has been in use in a Trenton, n. j.,
dynamo room since February last, Civ
ing the best of satisfaction. 1t is
about six by eighteen inches on the
floor, and stands less than two feet
high. It weighs three hundred pounds
and is run by a 12O horse power boil
er.
"My invention relates to motors,
and particularly to rotary engines
having reversible concentric pistons.
The objects in view are to provide a
machine of simple construction with
means for providing the maximum ex-
pansion Of steam, to provide an i'm
proved construction of piston, where,
by the force of expansion is ecouo-
mized, and, furthermore, to provide a
simple and efficient means for lubri-
eating and packing the piston. The
engine can be made of straight run
ming or compound or triple expansion.
To compound an engine it is only
necessary to exhaust the steam in a
chest, lead it to second set Of recess
es in the periphery of the piston and
use it over there; to double it sec
ond chest and third set of recesses
are cut in the periphery of the piston.
Ny little 46 horsepower simple en-
gine, run by 20 horsepower boiler,
will indicate 80 when compound and
about 65 when tripled. I think it is
doing pretty we'll to get 65 horse-pow-
er from the consumption of a 20 horse
power boiler.