The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-02-01
IS OF GREAT VALUE
Greatest Invention of Modern
Times Is Patented
BY TWO WICHITA MEN

D. y. Baxter and Judge James A. Ray
of this city have secured a patent on an
automatic boiler cleaner which they own
jointly, that some of the machinists of
this city think Will make them a great
fortune. 1t is believed from tests al
ready made that this appliance will do its
work thoroughly and effectively.
The formation of a crust of foreign sub
stances in water on the inside surface OF
boilers has been the torment of engineers
for ages. or ever since the use of steam
as a motor power Stationary engins
railroad engines and the boilers Of ships
at sea have all alike suffered from the
coats formed on the inner side OF the
boilers.
-. y. Baxter is a railroad engineer Of
fifteen years experience. His great anx-
iety during these fifteen years was to
prevent a crust forming in the boiler of
his railroad engine and then the fierce
burning a hole in his boiler.
People in this city have heard the hor-
ribie screaching OF the Missouri Pacific
engines on the bridge over the Big river
trying to blow the sediment out OF their
boilers. Some people once petitioned the
city council 10 have the noise stopped, but
the council decided that the railroad must
be allowed to clean its boilers and IL the
only way 70 do it was to force the steam
through them the people must bear the
noise.
Mr.. Baxter for years racked his brain
trying to think of some contrivance that
would prevent the boiler OF his engine
from coating and he finally thought OF the
plan which he got patented and recently
has secured an Improvement that makes
the device thousand times more valua-
bic he learned by experience that the
heat drove. the foreign substances in the
boiling water in his engine TO the front
Of the boiler furtherest from the fire.
He invented a device intended to take til
foreign substance from the surface Of
the boiler in the front and deposit il in a
drum on the outside of the boiler
The first invention consisted Of two steel !
drums on the outside Of the boiler and
while II I'D its work the second patent (
covers a device consisting Of single /
drum which IS considered far superior to I
the first machine. The Eagle Office has F.
one Of the old machines attached % the I
boiler IN its engine room and the engi- 4
neer says II does the work intended ana ;
he has no trouble to keep the boiler clean /
Gene & Cornell have one OF the boiler in 4
their laundry and Mr. Cone said the other ,
day that he would not take five hundred 4
dollars for the device and do without IL 4
43G any itltA III % i4l4ir- - r. At0NaE4 has
one on the boiler at the Union mills and 4
the engineer says g. IS all right The
Ceutropolis hotel at kansas City has one 4
on the boiler used iu the house and the
managers give good report
Knowing that the first machines did the
work fairly vel since the improved ma
chine has been patented in this country.
England and Canada. Judge Pay ard
Mt Baxter are feeling very Erea Us eiat-
Ell Judge Ray is going % Topeka %
have one pat on one ~ the boilers - a
Santa Fe engine ald some % the head
men % the railroad company say if the
boiler cleaner RiI work on the railroad
engines il is % incalcuiabie value n the
railroads Judge Rag and AR. Raxte-
aye confident that i All do even better
on ire railroad engines than OF the sta
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the device ff if ws1 d that Judge Ray
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satisfied with Tie success ~ the auto
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