The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-01-12
FORTUNE FOR ENGINE
A Station Agent Suddenly Becomes
Multimllli0naire.
Grant Brambel. Newly Honored In .
Minnesota village, Sells Motor.

Grant Brambel, telegraph operator and
agent at Sleepy Eye, MINI, and just elect
ed an alderman Of the village, is worth S7,-
100000.
Mr.. grambel, who Is an Englishman OF
s3 years, exhibited the papers confirming
his great good fortune the other evening as
he calmly talked about his rotary engine,
tho right Of which hc has just sold TO the
Allen syndicate Of England. He viii re-
ceiye three-fourths of tho money In cash.
Speaking of his engine, Mr.. Brambel said:
al first got the idea of rotary engine
| from the turbine wheel. / could not see
why steam could not DO what water dio,
especially when steam had qualities tnat
water lacked. and they were essential. You
know that when a little turbine Is hit py
| column OF water no bigger than your pen.
Gil something has To go. Yon take sman
| wheel. mechanically correct, and turn
| against it an inch steam jet at 100 ponnds
| or more and allow for the steam expan-
sion. and why won't you get power?
"I knew that IL was necessary to get the
greatest possible development of the steam
| expansion In order 10 giya-success TO the
idea, and have been working along this
line for 12 years 1t took many models ana
n great many failures 20 get the thing right
| have had engine after engine that seemed
Co be perfect and would spin along like
ton: only to stop when some inezplainable
point was reached. Finally, about hye
wears ago. hit the machine substantially
as il Is today.
| ssMy American patents were granted q
year ago, and now have patents In Eng
land, France, Belgium, Germany and near
ly all over the world. The Allen engineer
ing syndicate, at the head of which Is r.
III. Allen Of the Allen Steamship company
Of Liverpool, has purchased the right foI
the machine for Europe and for the United
States, the total for the two being S7,l loO,'
600.
"There have been IA Of the engines built
all experimentally, and they have beer
tested everywhere | could find place foi
them except on locomotives. / have rur
circular saws with them up TO 200 revolu
tions emery wheels, centrifugal fans ant
blowers, creamery separators up to 6,oO'
revolutions and dynamos--all coupled di
rect to tho engine. They have been in u.s.
In elevators, hosting works, boats ant
machine shops.
"The largest engine, ESQ horsepower, ha
been in use In Trenton dynamo room
Aimee February last, giving the hest OF sat
inaction 1t Is about by Is inches on TN
floor and stands less than feet high.
weighs 300 pounds and is run by a IL
horsepower boiler.
"My invention" continued Mr.. Bran
bel, "relntes TO motors, and particularly Z
rotary engines having reversible concentri
pistons. The objects in view are to pre-
vide a machine of simple construction VIII
means for providing the maximum expan
sion of steam; to provide an improved cor
struction of piston, whereby the force
expansion is economiZed, and, further
more, TO provide simple and eiiicier
| means for lubricatiDg and packing the pi'
ton.
"The engine can be made straight rur
. ming or compound or triple expansion. 1
; compound an engine it IS only necessary
, exhaust the steam into chest, lead 1t TO
second set OF recesses in the periphery {
the piston and use it over again there. i
double it, second chest and third set I
recesses are cut in the periphery of the pi
ton.
, "My little 40 horsepower simple engin
> run by 20 horsepower boiler, will ina
! cate 80 when compound and about 90 whe
tripled think IL Is doing pretty well
I get 60 horsepower from the consumptic
> of a 90 horsepower boiler. New Yor
| Jlorald