Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-10-21
NEW FURNACE WORKS
MlDDLEBURY MAY CAPTURE ONE
MORE BIG INDUSTRY.

House Floating System on the Markets
May Have Their Works Here.
Readers of the REGISTER will recollect
an article that appeared in its columns
several months ago above my name re-
lative to coal-burning stove exhibiting
total combustion of fuel-the invention
of DR.. Virgil w. Blanchard. Since then,
important developments of the invention
have been realized, exhibiting phenom-
enal progress in its application to house
heating, together with a furtherance of
the commercial end of the enterprise, all
of which | feel confident will interest
every progressive reader of the REGIS
TER, if for no other reason than the re-
lations that its inventor has sustained in
the past and still sustains to his old
home in Addison county.
As house-heating plant of DR.. Blan
chard's invention is now In practical
operation and on exhibition at the resi-
dence of Allan Calhoun in the village of
Middebury, who has, as treasurer and
business manager of a corporation con-
trolling the inventions of DR.. Blanchard
relating to house-heating in a large eX
tent of valuable territory, become identi-
fled with its commercial department, |
am confident a brief statement of the
basic elements in this new departure in
science will be of interest to the public,
not only from individual benefits that
may accrue, but also from the oppor-
tunty now presented to build up NAM
moth manufacturing interest in the town
! nf rh off hxr
this and other new departures in practi-
cal economies and sanitary sciences.
The statements l am about to make,
| would say, have in part been compiled
from memoranda supplied to me by DR..
Blanchard, together with data obtained
by critically observing the practical
workings of his invention, aided by my
own personal knowlege and previous in
vestigation of the same subject, in which
| have always taken keen interest.
As there is at the present hour pop
uar, imperative demand for pure, cheap
heat for house heating purposes, which
| it seems to me that the Blanchard sys-
TEN alone can supply, | feel that brief
statement of the imperfections and de-
| ficiencies in the methods now in general
use in house heating is necessary to clear
the way for concise understanding of
the superlatiYe advantages of the new
ideal system. There are at present three
methods or systems of house heating in
general use-by means of hot air, one by
steam and the other by the use of hot
water. AS the two last named methods
are identical in principle and application,
they may be to all intents and purposes
considered as one. In the hot air house
heating furnace the air heating chambers
are directly above the incandescent fuel
on the CRATE, receiving the direct impact
of the partially consumed, intensely
heated fuel gases from below. AS re-
suit their metal walls are heated to an
intense temperature, those nearest the
fire to "red heat, a temperature never
less than 1000 degrees F. and in many
cases as high as 1900 degrees F.
The air supply for heating the apart.
ments above is allowed to freely enter
the intensely heated chambers and to
come in direct contact with the inner
surface of their highly heated metal
plates, thereby instantly converting the
ozonized oxygen contained in the air to
common oxygen. By this means the
lfe-invigorating, the life.energizing ele-
ment in the air is destroyed. Ozone is
an alotropic form of oxygen produced
in the atmosphere by the agency of heat,
light and electricity. tbs natures great
safeguard against disease, serving at the
same time as the most powerful of all
disinfectants, as the most potent of all
germicides and as the supreme element
in nature to impart life, vitality and vigor
to the human body. 1t is the produc-
tion of this element during a thunder
storm that vitalizes the atmosphere,
thereby invigorating all forms of animal
and vegetable life, causing even the grass
and leaves to take on a greener hde and
the flowers a brighter lustre.
Air, de-vitalized by the destruction OF
its most important and valuable element
ozone, by means of heat, is unfit for res
piration by human being. 1t becomes
what is known as "burnt air." the alb
sence of vitality being physically appar.
ent in it, as one may determine by inhal
ing it above "register" from a hot all
house heating furnace.
The old falsehood, so long successful
ly advanced, that the "burnt air" from &
hot air house-heating furnace may be re
vivified and restored to normal state by
{ the addition to it of water or steam. has
/ been so frequently refuted and exploded
: by modern sanitary science that even tn,
: most INSCRIPTIONS vender of modern ho
r air house-heating furnaces no longer de
= pends on it with the intelligent laymar
} In making sales of his health and life
= destroying goods.
= As a temperature exceeding 300 de
. grees F. will destroy the element ozon,
in atmospheric air, it becomes eviden
= that it would be impossible to construc
- hot air house heating furnace on any
s plan now in use so as to retain In the al
r passing through it the life-energizing
S health-preserying factor, ozone, withou