The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-10
NEW ENTERPRISE
IN BIG RICHMOND
Virginia Blower and Manufacture
ing Co. Only Establishment OF
Its Kind Hereabouts.
LABOR SAVING SYSTEMS
New System for Converting
Waste Material Into Fuel.
Their Own Patterns.

One OF the newest Of Richmond's
manufacturing enterprises Is the es-
Establishment OF the Virginia Blower and
Manufacturing Company, OF which Mr..
w. P. Patterson is president, and Mr..
A. ]. Leatch is engineer and general
manager The machine shops are To-
Gated at Fourteenth and Dock Streets.
1t is the only establishment of the
Kind between Baltimore and Atlanta
and east IF Cincinnati.
The company manufactures and In
stalls system for conveying materials
such as shavings, saw dust cottons.
lints, tobacco, tanBark, etc, from the
floors Of factories to their proper ma
chinery or to the place for destruc-
ton. also for collecting dust from to-
lacco factories. foundres. rice and
-four mills and any other factory or
mill that makes dust. BY this COM
PAWS systems of blowers. shaving5
and other waste that may be used as
fuel. is conveyed to the furnaces ana
dust and dirt are carried through the
tops of buildings and thrown to the
winds.
The systems also handle steam. odors
or yapors Of any kind For instance
they will take away the smoke or
yapor that necessarily arises IN a
steamed tobacco factory, and In jlttiy
carry II to the air high above the
building.
Sy.tcms Arc Lnbor-Snvers.
The company has just installed their
system in the r. a. Patterson Tobacco
Company's mammoth factory, and that
concern most highly recommends IT.,
| saving in letter to the general man
aeer: THE system gives us a more
uniform product than formerly, and at
the same time relieves our graduating
rooms Of large percentage of the
dust that formerly accumulated. It Is
also quite a labor saving device. and
will soon pay for Itself IN the saving
of labor alone"
1t is well known that tanners eXpe-
ricnce great trouble in getting the
ground tanbark from their watts after
It has performed It's office. From time
| immemorial the wet, ground bark has
been removed from the watts by hand,
spread upon a yard to dry, and there
| burned. The Virginia Blower and
Manufacturing Company has invented
a system that does this work at a
saving OF 60 per cent. in the cost. and
at the same time converts the waste
bark into valuable fuel. They are the
| first people in the world to install a
system that successfully meets this
trouble of the tanners. They have
! Installed in the tannery of a. D. Shot
we'll e Co., In Manchester, blower
system, which takes the wet bark from
4 the bottom OF the watts. conveys 1t to
/ the furnace beneath the boiler, and,
while Ell route. the bark is dried out
so as to require no additional fuel to
destroy It, but the bark becomes the
best kind Of fuel itself.
Tho Shntwell Company say the sys-
tenn Is n perfect success. and has re-
|sulted In the saving Of so per cent. Ut
tho former cost of handling the waste
bark and III their letter they add: I'VE
know of no other system In the coun-
try for handling the wet spent bark
In tHis way"
whrre the Systems Work.
Among other Jobs completed lately
by the company are those in the es-
Establishments OF the ALLEGHENY Box
company, Chas, w, Hardwicke & Co,
lin Richnond; Jacob Savage planning
|Mi;s ~,d the Appomattox Lumber and
Box Company, OF Pe,ersburg: r, r.
|Richardson & co.'s Tobacco Factory
lReidsviue, N. c.: the Charlotte Plaster
company, Charlotte. N. c., and the u
i II. Barnes Company, Norfolk.
They have Just put In the Atlantic
|Narnish Works, In this city, a sue
cessful forced draft system for getting
lup temperature on boiling kettles al
the very shortest notice. These sys-
y tens can be used to great advantage
! and profit II paper mills textile mills
4 cement plants, tobacco factories, chem
n ical works, fertilizer works, wood
i working plrEts, shoe factories, pea
sInut factories. thnneries, foundries, and
lin fact all classes OF mills and WORK
4 Shops
4 The company has Just patented an
entirely new system of ventila tors. and
!, they are building them In all sizes and
q forrall purposes. These ventlators are
4 cons fr,lctal on a brand new prlnctple