Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-06-21
GREAT MACHINE INVENTED.
An Apparatus For Cooling the At
mosnbere In Dwellings.

mOsphere In DweiilhHs'
Prof. Willis L. Moore, chief Of the
weather bureau at Washington, mas
perfected a very valuable machine.
which should make the hottest summer
endurable in the most torrid cline. IL
Is an apparatus for cooling the atmos-
phere in houses and 1t may be used for
commercial purposes as a cold storage
plant. The machine Is described IN 4
dispatch from Washington to the Ne"
York Sun as follows:
The gravity apparatus for cooling
dwellings, invented by Prof. Willis L.
Moore, chief of the weather bureau
patents for which were recently secur-
ed, was placed in operation for puoiic
demonstration today. The macnlne
looks like a cylinder stove. and the IN
yentor says It will IN time come to be
considered as essential to the comfort
of a dwelling in summer as heating ap-
paratus in winter. Prof. Moore says
that the cost of cooling given space
with this machine is approximately the
same as that of heating the same space
by means Of a stove or furnace. Be-
sides this, the different uses to whlch
the machine may be put are unlimited.
He expects it to prove Of great value 10
hospitals, particularly for reducing the
temperature of wards in which FEVER
patients are confined, and In addition
to it's use for cooling residences ana no
tells, he says he solves the problem OF
individual cold storage.
Prof. Moore's invention, In adition 10
reducing temperature, washes, cleanses
and renders the air dry and health1ui'
Hot air, filled with dust, Is taken INTO
the machine at temperature of nearly
100 degrees and expelled almost in
stantly at a temperature OF ~ degrees
and with it's relative humidity lessened
by more than half. The machine ope-
rates, as its name implies, on the prin-
ciple of gravity. That is, it makes use
of the difference in weight between air
at a high and a low temperature. II 49,
moreover, automatic. 1t requires no
motive power and Is self-ad1ustlns.
When the weather is very hot the ma
chine works faster than when 1t Is only
moderately warm, and when the wealth
er is temperate the machine ceases Its
operations altogether. 1t Is necessary
to change the machine only once day.
preferably in the morning, and then II
will automatically keep the dwelling IN
which it is placed at a cool, even tenn
perature.
The gravity cooler, WILL like stoves,
be manufactured in all sizes from
small affair corresponding to stove
designed to heat one room to an I'M
mense syclinder, corresponding to dry
heat furnace and capable of effectually
and quickly cooling every part or a
large dwelling. Prof Moore only re-
Gently secured his patents and yester-
day was the first day the machine mas
been in operation at the weather pu-
reau.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson had
heard of Prof Moore's machine and
and walked to the weather bureau from
church yesterday morning. Mr.. Wilson
was warm after his walk and told Prof.
Moore he wanted to be COOLED or.
He was taken to the room where the
machine was in operation and a few
minutes later buttoned up his coat and
remarked that he did not care to DE
| frozen to death in summer. The ma
chine in operation at the weather pu-
reau is much too large for the room IN
which it is placed and makes the room
feel like the cold storage department OF
packing house. 1t is of the size IN
tended for a hospital ward and was
built for experimental purposes.
Prof. Moore says that as soon as the
foreign patents are granted he Will
make public the formula of the compo-
sition with which the machine is charg-
ed. He said, however. that the compo-
sition contained no ammonia, nor any
of the usual ingredients Of ordinary
freezing mixtures. The reporter looked
into a sliding door of the cylinder and
saw lot of little wheels, pipes and
slowly turning machinery, which, Prof.
Moore explained, all depended upon the
principle Of gravity for motion. The top
of the brass cylinder was perfectly