Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-16


Nhe corner grocery, and 10 housewife
i'll be without it, says the Boston
Globe. Ozone has been known Tor
1e2rly fifty years as one of the mar
Vicious constituents OF the air, but 1t
IS only recently that scientists have
learned it's magical uses for practical
Industrial purposes. Now they offer
I FOR the bleaching OF fabrics, yarns,
WAX, and fats; sterilizing drinking
water, dying and thicllcning oils, ma
turing wine and spirits, sweetening
foul beer barrels, seasoning linoleum,
aging wood for musical instruments,
manufacturing artificial perfumes,
treating spent oil. purifying starch and
aeXtrine. manufacturing vinegar and
score OF other similar purposes. In
she treatment OF disease it i most
sttIcacious. Excellent results have
been obtained in the treatment of an
aemia. whooping cough. malaria. tn
serculosis, wounds, and it is used for
purifying hospital wards Until lately
= test Of the matter OF It's great useful
ness was not possible because ozone
could not Re made in very large qUan-
titles. Electrical discharges in the
atmosphere produce it readily. Its
1nngent odor can be noticed around
the poles OF a static machine when
the glass plates are revolving. Pro-
dueed in this way, it escapes-Or
rather, revects to lis original form in
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fined easily
For instance, If tho TWO poles of the
electric machine were 10 be continued
by means OF wires through the sides
OF large glass tube 50 that the sparks
would be generated inside the tube,
the air flowing in one end Of tho tube
would be ozonized and ozone would
flow from the other end of the tube.
All commercial ozonizers are built on
his principle Condensers are caused
TO generate ozone within a chamber.
Air is kept flowing through this cham
Der at rapid rate. II soes in one side
OF the apparatus rs air; it comes ont
the other side as ozone. The ozone Is
not allowed TO escape. but IS confined
IN special POTABLE chambers, or in
permanent chambers when it Is in
tended TO be used on the premises
After ALL ozone Is merely electrified
air and any apparatus will produce 1t
which will very rapidly change a
heavy flow OF air. The endeavor in
all the apparatus now in use Is To-
multiply this electrolyzing effect. An
Greolfs ozonizer Is IN disappearing
Affair. Clamped with a frame Is a
series OF aluminium and glass plates
standing on edge. First there is
fat aluminium plate. then glass
plate. then plate composed OF a great
humber OF aluminium wires stretched
across a fiat wooden frame:
next another glass plate, then
another fiat aluminium plate
Mud so on indefinitely. or until
tho unit" or ozonzer. Is made up.
Tho glass plates are intended for insu.
Gators between tho two kinds OF alum.
iniuri plates. rho latter ara charged
with heavy alternating current. The
whole apparatus Is confined Within y
chamber Air IL pumped rapidly
through lhs chamber. The alternal-
Ing current In endeay0fng 10 How be-
sween the Two kinds of aluminium
plates eleelrlneH he air aud the result
Va ozone ~ The other lend" OF the
machine, The quantity now pfoduea
ed II ninety four grams per horse
power per hour, II n most interest
ing 10 see ~ o60nger al work aud to
note its various fields If usefulness,
The appearance " every ozone plant
depends on the kind of work 10 ba
done with The apparatus, The pun
gent smelling substance makes It's
presence known 49, soon as one not
used Ia II enters he chamber IN which
n Ii made, The sensation in ones
nose aud throat Is not altogether
pleasant, u Is choking 10 some per-
sons, simply annoying 10 others
Many persons can not stand II az all,
others do not mind IL IN the least, IN
tho daytime The od0r Is most apparent
within the chamber, ~ night the odor
In forgotten In view of the spectacular
features OF The apparatus, The action
of the glass and metal plates as he
strong current az electricity plays on
them Is beautiful. When the current
IN turned on slight phosphOrescence
appears all over the plates. growing
into q great glow which spreads over
the apparatus and finally nils and
lights up the room. Photographs al
the ozonlzers have been taken with no
other light than that contained In this
glow. IL Is like the illumination of
vacuum tubes. Yet this glow Is one
Of the things to he guarded against by
the ozone manufacturers. For IL gen
crates heat and heat In It's turn de-
stroys ozone. So. while the spectacle
may be beautiful, II is not economic
The perfect oZOnizer has no glow.
The apparatus is silent. and except
for the pungent odor or the illumina-
ton It would not be suspected OF be-
ing capable OF wrestling from the air
its most vital principle and hurting It
on. to be used in the arts and indus