Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-08-17

Nave been asked to use means to con-
sumo this smoke because it made the /
city ugly and dirty, because 1t ruined
clothes and begrimed houses; but all |
to no purpose. Now there is prospect |
of an appeal to the pockets of these |
violators. and victory for cleanliness
and health may not be far off, because |
economy makes a strong argument to |
the average person.
Were it possible to collect all the
smoke that issues froi Chicago's
thousands of chlmneys during one day
1t would be found to represent many
dollars in uncombusted material
material that should never have been
allowed to leave the furnace fire till
every degree OF caloric had been ex-
tracted. Show owners Of these fur
naces that they are throwing dollars
out of their smokestacks every hour
and they will be interested in any
device which promises to successfully
consume smoke. Aestheticism is a
weak argument compared with cupid
ity.
In the governments consular re-
ports for July Frank H. Mason, United
States consul general at Berlin, gives
a most interesting account of a new
understanding device which at
present is greatly interesting indust-
rial economists of Germany. This de-
vice-the invention Of Paul Cornelius
promises to solve more effectively
than has been done hitherto the prob
lem of consuming bituminous coal,
slack, sawdust and other inferior
forms of feul, without smoke and under
conditions OF extreme economy. The
process consists simply in distributing
heated aud slightly compressed air
through hollow CRATE bars to the whole
lower surface OF the furnace, which,
being injected upward through the
mass of burning fuel, secures equal
and perfect combustion and an in
tense, regular heat from materials
that would not be available IL burned
by ordinary methods. Mr. Mason
mentions two places where this device
has been In practical use nearly a
year-one a large cloth mandatory
and the other Berlin hotel, the lat
ter using two boilers for heating
driving an engine, dynamo, elevator
etc, and because OF the wide interest
which attaches to this subject and its
prospective Importance in abating the
smoke nuisance In cities and bringing
into use vast quantities of material
now practically worthless, a descrip-
tion of what he found at these es-
Establishments will be of value
After visiting the Berlin hotel Mr..
Mason thus describes the smoke-con-
-suming apparatus:
THE two boilers are of the ordinary
fiue pattern, placed side by side and
their furnaces separated by dividing
wall, so that one can be thrown out
of use or turned on, as occasion may
require. The furnaces are about ten
by four feet In area and the smoke
passes by subterranean fiues to stack
chimney standing in a central court
and rising above the roof of the build
ing. Near the furnaces is located
an ordinary fan blower, driven by an
electrical motor of one-half- horse
power. the speed of which is easily
controlled and which drives the air
through 6-inch pipe into "a hollow
iron chamber about ten inches deep,
which forms the front section OF the
hearth of the furnaces. Into this air
chamber is fitted one end OF the hollow
CRATE bars. which are about two and
one-half inches in diameter, extend
backward the length of the furnace
and are supported by ordinary bear
ings at the farther end. These hol-
low CRATE bars are round on the bot
tom, but at the top are hexagonal, pre-
sentlng three faces, each pierced with
holes about two inches apart and be-
ginning with caliber OF one-eighth Of
an inch, which increases slightly
througout the length of the bar, to
equalize the discharge OF air from tue
gradually decreasing pressure with
in. The hollow crate bars are laid
about six inches apart. and there Is
placed between each pair three solid
triangular bars, which assist in sus-
tanning the weight of the burning fuel.
The air being forced by the fan blower
into the hollow chamber. is there
heated from the fire on its upper sur
faces then passes into the hollow CRATE
bars and is injected upward in three
rows OF jets. one vertical and two In
cline1 10 right aud left, so that the
entife under surface OF the burning
mdss resting on the crate is fed con-
stantlx 6y Jets of fresh-heated air,
whi1S generate from rthe most ord-
nsE{ trades OF fuel an intense white
aIpi0 can be pffectly con-
\gulatipg te speed OF the
Il - n combustion