The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-11-13
INVENTED AN ENGINE
or GREAT POWER
J. Royal Kinney. Formerly Of Barre. i
Meeting With Remarkable Success
and Is Likely to Realize Heav-
ily on His Invention.

- N~ tAtA thFNhh'At
,. Royal Kinney, who sings Ia the con.
cert At the opera house tomorrow night,
and who was iorncFly q resident Of
this eity, being then associated with hls
brother IN the management Of the City
Fish Market. Il the inventor Of a new
steam engine. which, II the predictions
0i electrical, stationary and marine Gu.
glneers prove true, viii make Mr.. Kin.
ncy millionaire IN few short years.
This new engine Il rotary. and has
bccp named the kinney Tnrbo Engine
Mr.. Kinney has patented u IN the Init
ed states. securing his papers within 90
days after making his application, and
has applied for patents Ia twenty six
foreign countries II Ia claimed that
his Invention Is the most important
commercially that has heon made IN
years. Mr. kiuney's engine i = machine
n which there are no heavy recipfocat.
ing parts. Ia which vibration Il reduced
10 a minimum. and a remarkably small
and wonderfully light for the power dc.
velopci, and IN which the cost OF opera
tlon can be reduced 70 a minimum.
Like all great inventions. the engine
Is surprisingly simple. and ono wonders
how Il n that someone had not worked
out the idea before. Tho engine i 40
compact that machine developing %
horsepower occupies space of only
nbont 10 inches square. and is Insight
u about the same While the engine
Il n turbo, II Il as different from the
turbine, about which We hear 20 much
nowadays, a. the turbine y from the
ordinary reciprocating engine. For
equal power Il Is claimed the Kinney
machine does not require 80 per cent.
Of the space. Or 81 per cent. OF the
weight of the modern turbine.
For the past four years, IN fsct nearly
ever since Air kinney lcfi Barre. he has
given every possible moment OF his time
when not employed at his musical duties.
In studying out and working on HE
invention, until this past summer the
first engine was constructed. One Sat
urday afternoon, after the model was
ready TO try out. Mr. Kinney and w. II.
Pitkin, who had helped him some in
It's construction, took the engine down
to an engine room on Atlantic avenue
In Boston 70 Try Il out. II was connect
ed 70 small steam pipe and steam
turned on. The engine made half revo-
luton and stopped.
1T isn't going to 60" was Mr. Kin
ney's comment, and there were almost
tears in his eyes as he said Il. But the
difficulty was only a small one, ard was
soon remedied. and the little machine
was started a second time and Il went.
And how Il did spinl The steam leaked
a, all joints. But that was simply be-
cause the model had been worked over
and changed so much there wasn't a
tight joint in 1t. Both Kinney and Pit
kin sat there and laughed 10 see Il 20,
laughed because L would go, and laughed
because the ioy Of succcss seemed best
to find expression in laughing.
Since that Saturday afternoon many
people have been TO the store Of Mr..
pitkin on Atlantic avenue 20 see the
little engine. and among the visitors
there came one day a marine engineer,
whose uncle had heard Of IL and sent |
him 70 investigate. He looked it over,
asked few questions, and went away. |
lie went to sec the consulting engineers
Of the Cramps. the ship builders, and on
his return he told his uncle to put al |
lhe money he wanted to into the new
enterprise. A company had been organ
led and stock was sold TO him, and aside
from the friends who had aided Mr.
Kinney IN making his first engine and
getting his patent, who were given a
.hance to invest. the stock has not been
offered to the public. Mr.. Kinney has
j per cent. of the total issue Of 81 900,
700, and in October as high as $50
ihare was being offered for the stock
par value sl00l, and not an engine yet
,n the market.
A machine shop for the manufacture
II the engines has been equipped in
building on Sudbury street in Boston
md f. +. Kinney, who until recently
operated machine shop in Barre, is in
.harge Of it, and although no effort has
,een made to sell the machines because
zone were ready for delivery more or
lers have been received than can be
illed in some time.