Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-09
WOOD AND WATER
NOW MAKE SUGAR
INVENTOR SHOWS MACHINE IN.
OPERATION
Claims to Be Able to Turn Out Sweet
Stuff at One Twelfth of the
Present Trust
Price

A demonstration of Charles P. Stuarts
invention to convert pine boards into
sugar was given at the home of the in
ventor. 29l5 Harvard boulevard, yesterday
afternoon j. d. Redford, vice president
of the German-American National bank
George f. Cotton, real estate man ana
capitalist; ]. f. Williams of Monrovia and
A. NJ. Perkins of San Jose witnessed the
test
All expressed the opinion that Mr..
Stuart's invention, simple as 1t appears is
really a remarkable discovery.
Mr.. Stuart, when asked about the future
of his little gold mine" as he affection
ately calls it, said: "This demonstration
plant cost less than $1,000 and 1t will man
ufacture $3.50 worth of sugar day; the
most chemically pure sugar in the world,
without moisture, that adds weight to
either beet or cane sugar, and chemically
pure. something that cannot be said about
other kinds of sugar.
At this stage Mr. Stuart took an armful
of pine wood eucalyptus, corn cobs, a
piece of old buggy and barrel hoop and
made into charcoal. While waiting Mr..
Stuart explained his apparatus.
How Machine Is Arranged
The machine is composed of a water
boiler, a furnace for heating steam until
it turns into hydrogen and oxygen, a re-
tort in which the charcoal is reduced to
gas and mixed with the hydrogen and
oxygen, a water tank in which the COM
bination of gases is cooled, an air com
presser and a set of highly charged cleo
trodes.
The charcoal ready, Mr.. Stuart put
thirty-two pounds of it into the retort
and started the fire under his water
boiler. Twenty minutes later, when things
were getting hot, he started the air com
pressor and set of highly charged cleo
boiler and retort into tank. Then he let
the compressed gas flow past the cleo
troder and fine spray of powdered sugar
burst from the end Of the pipe. Thirty
minutes later it ceased The entire out
put was about seventy pounds OF sugar
The chemical formula for sugar is car
bon II parts, hydrogen p parts and oxygen
IL parts.
How 1t Is Done
Mr. Stuart gets his carbon from the
charcoal, the other two gases from water
and forces them together with the in
fiuence of the electrodes, making chem
ically pure sugar. 1t comes out in pow
dered form, but may be granulated by dis
solving it in water and subsequent evap-
Forty-eight pounds of charcoal and sixty
pounds of water make 100 pounds of sugar.
The cost for making the batch is 81 for
gasoline for fuel The charcoal pays for
itself in by-products, which are given off
in the making.
g; O.. Nelson, one OF, the men present,
chemically pure sugar to several Pasa-
dena grocers, bakers and confectionery
men. They. have found it satisfactory,
product which, they admit from tests is
pure, devoid of moisture and which can
be sold at a price that will make the
sugar trust open it's eyes.
Making Sugar from Rubbish
"Just imagine breaking up an old cast
away buggy and by this secret process
converting 1t into pure sugari
what a fortune is to be made from this
great invention that makes sugar out of
charcoal and water with the aid of cleo
f1tf an hanf hat
Of sugar from 61a cents per pound to less
than one-twelfth that amount"