Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-01-10
ENGINE IN ONE Cylinder.

A Bit of Mechanism Which
Transmits Power Direct
Without Piston.-If the
Machine will Do What Its
Inventors Claim, Modern
Steam Engineering Will be
Revolutionized.
In a corner of BROOKLYN machine
shop there is 70 be found the latest won
der of an inventive mans brain and
handiwork
1t does not impress one, however. at
the first glance. Looking at it one sees
what is apparently the cylinder of a
steam engine 1t is evidently steam
box, for there are the steam pipes and it
is exhau>ting hot water and vapor, but
where is the piston that is the accepted
essential in a steam engine?
You watch it carefully and You see it
is revolving at terrific speed. You ask
the attendant and he tells you:
"Oh, yes: it's working. Turning
5000 revolutions tn the minute now. Can
60 5000 if we push it to the utmost"
But" you ask, "what is it doing?"
"What does any engine do?" retorts
the attendant. Its transmitting power
turning that big shafting to which it
is coupled
"Do You mean to say that that's the
whole engine - you inquire, wonder
ingly.
"It certainly is" is the reply you
receive, aud if you have come well rec
commended and as the inventors guest,
Won will be initiated into the mysteries
of the latest marvel that is destined to
revolutionize the present methods of ap
plying power for propelling ships. driv-
ing the machinery of mills and factories,
speeding locomotives, running automo-
biles, launches or dynamos.
HENRY BUCK, THE INVENTOR.
Before you have seen this little steam
wonder you have made the acquaint-
ance and won the confidence of tall.
sturdy. thoughtful man, grown gray i'll
the study of his favorite science, who is
now ready to tell you of this latest child
of his years of study to solve the prob
lens that have puzzled steam engineers
for a century.
1t is the inventor, Henry A. Buck.
He is only Al years old. though if you
were to hazard a guess you would prob.
ably give him credit for ten more years
of toll and study. He is a New En-
glander, IA son of the Nutmeg state, and
his connection with mechanics began
when he was but 10 years old. He has
occuyied every position from apprentice
boy to superintendent of steam engine
building plant employing 2O0O men.
The dream of his life has been to dis
cover the means of solving the most diff
ficult problems of engineering-of saw.
ing the remendous quantity of energy
that is lost by steam engines of the most
improved type and OF applying the
power direct.
He now has perfected "A steam making
plant and an engine that he is confident
has solved these problems. and some of
the greatest engineers of the day agree
with him.
IS REMARKABLY SIMPLE
The engine itself is so simple that it
seems to the layman impossible that it
could even be what it is called, but Il
brief examination of its method suiiices.
1t is cylinder mere steel shell about
twelve inches long and twelve inches
high.
Through il runs central shaft. A
cross section would show that III the
center of this shaft "A steel disk is riveted
and to this disk are attached three
metal cylinders upon which the power
or steam is applied. These three cylin-
ders make the engine triple expansion,
and the surfaces of each. on which the
power is applied. are so arranged with
series of grooves that an enormous area
on which the steam acts is secured ana
the greatest amount possible of the eX-
pansive force in the steam is utilized.
The engine has no dead center, no
pistons, rings or rods, no steam chest
valve. valve rods, eccentrics. cams, link
motions. sliding parts, reciprocating
parts or any of these things common to
the accepted type of engines. 1t re
celves its steam ut the highest tempera-
ture possible and exhausts it at forty
degrees lower than any other engine
now i'll use.
A 100 horse power engine of this style
made of cast iron steel, weighs about
Achi2g .Jo;"ts
In the fingers, toes, arms,
parts of the body, are joints that are