The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-07-30
New Gas VIII Drive Steamer
Across Ocean in That Time.
CLAIM MADE BY INVENTOR.
Petroleum In Small Quantity Mixed With
EIghy-tlve Per Cent Of Compressed Air.
Dry and Nun.sIpIoslv..

New York. July SO-"To Europe in
four days without COAL at half the
present expense for fuel TO drive an
ocean steamer" is what a Hoboken en-
gineer claims for his new process of
burning a very little petroleum with SO
per cent. OF red hot compressed air
Charles A. Kuenzel is his name and he
told a plain story last night which 9TH
ers who had seen the machine working
corroborated.
They said that after years Of expert
ment a little discovery patented few
weeks ago gave the long sought solu-
tlon TO the problem OF making nom
explosive gas out OF petroleum and air.
which burned like oxygen and which
child can use and control without the
slightest danger from explosion or suf-
location
This new force, 10 run steamships
railways. automobiles and machinery.
was a dry gas. the first IL was asserted
ever produced I'm practical quantities.
BY the new Hoboken process common
Kerosene oil is mixed with compressed
hot air. forming gas. Just as this
gas enters the frehox of the engine,
through small pipes within other pipes,
passing over gas jets, II becomes so hot
that every trace OF moisture is expelled,
and at that instant IL becomes dry gas,
which will not explode.
GENERATES A FIERCE HEAT
This is the gas which bursts into flame
as II flows from thousands OF little needle
holes in the pipes lying on the furnace
CRATE. The heat is so fierce as TO con-
vert water into steam almost instantly.
you can better understand the value
OF my discovery" said the inventor,
when | say that you may turn a full
head OF this gas into red-hot furnace
and there will be no explosion When
ordinary Illuminating gas leaks and
fills the house you strike a match and
away goes the front of your dwelling,
generally with fatal results
Fill room with my dry gas and no
| explosion will follow n you light dozen
| matches Ii is high. non-explosive gas,
with power enough 10 run the heaviest
aChinery. yet as harmless as water.
PATENTS ARE PERFECTED.
| 1--WE have proved all our claims. per-
| fected our patents and put the gas to a
| practical test. with such success that a
| naval engineer has been detailed by the
| United States government 10 look into II.
He visited our machine shop in Hoboken
| recently. inspected every feature OF the
machinery while IL was working and took
notes and copies OF the. plans. on which
| to prepare a report for the government.
| One of the gentlemen who were present
| was asked what the naval expert had 10
| say during his inspection.
VERY little" was the reply. ITO talk
would have been a breach Of discipline,
but he looked pleased. and one OF our
| men heard him say that he wished he
owned the patent"
II is considered valuable feature that
very little alteration need be made in a
| locomotive firebox or steamship furnace
| 10 introduce the gas new fre CRATE, a
| sort OF gridiron or net OF gas burners. is
placed on the old CRATE. then connections
| are made with the gas manufacturing ap-
paratus and steady blast furnace hre,
| converting water almost instantly into
| steam, is obtained.
EXPENSE GREATLY REDUCED.
In recent experiment on railroad
with crude petroleum eighteen hundred
| gallons were required to run locomotive
| hve hundred and ten miles. Referring
| to this experiment the Hoboken inventor
| said that by his process one hundred
gallons of ordinary lamp oil, with COM
| pressed air. would have made the same
| trip. thus reducing the expense 10 an
| eighteenth OF the amount expended.
Another strong claim made for the gas
and compressed air process is the doing
away with the enormous weight of coal
required for driving a steamship across
the Atlantic and the abolition of smoke
| making locomotives smokeless and rail-
way travel cleaner and pleasanter. The
saving would not be confined to coal
alone. for nearly all the tortured and
overheated men at the furnaces could be
dispensed with. and one man can supply
ten boilers with dry gas and keep steam
UP TO the highest racing point OF speed.
Danger from explosion from coal gas
generated In the bunkers would also be
removed, and a warship could carry
enough oil to drive her from New York
| TO Manila and return without having "a
| pound of coal ON board.