The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-07-28
OF INTEREST TO ALL

L The gasoline engine has come into
almost universal use. Not only in the
shop. on farms, roads, rivers, lakes and
high seas, but in hundreds of smaller
appliances of the homekeeper and
pleasure seeker, is the engine driven by
this volatile fluid become indispensa-
BILE.
The greatest objection to the gaso-
line engine is it is not as reliable as it's
more clumsy older brother. the steam
engine. There is at present a machin-
list in Tampa who has invented an i'm
provement that will, if successful, do
away with much of this objection. The
Times says of him:
"A. o. Haney is the man who has
invented the .troubleless' engine. He
started on it eight years ago. At that
time he was the owner of the Haney
machine shops at Ligonier, Ind. He
started out to make an economical sta
tionary engine. Three years later, In
| 1906, he was granted United States
patent on his engine.
''He had not only made an engine
that would run quietly, develop great
power. and use little fuel He had done
more. He had invented the self-ignit-
ing engine-the dream of every user of
gasoline power. And the sef-igniting
feature he had discovered accidentally
He had run the motor for three months
| with battery, coil and spark plug be-
| fore he learned that it ran just as well
without any igniter.
Then, in 1907, he began to build and
/ sell his engines He made more than a
dozen of them, ranging in power from
| thirty-fiv horsepower down to ten. AT
| that time he had Prof B. s. Young OF
Purdine University, Indiana, to visit
| the factory and test his engine. Prof
Young was incredulous when he came
but upon his departure he said that the
engine was marvellous.
| I'm 1910 he exhibited one of his en-
gines at the Illinois state fair al
Springfield, Ill Immediately afterwards
he was approached by capitalists. He
| would have then started the manufac-
ture of the motors on a large scale ex-
cept for the fact that the capitalist:
| wanted him to sign away his paten
rights for their investment.
I'm the summer of 1910 Haney. dis
gusted with the men who tried to bea
him out of his patent, caught the Flor
ida fever. He came to this state anG
afternoon He came to this state ant
camped with his family near Clearwa
ter. Since then he has moved to Tam
pa.
| THE following claims for the engine
are quoted from his circular: 'Th,
Haney gas engine eliminates all igni
ton trouble, and all trouble resulting
from valves, cams, springs and simila
parts-because it has none. The engin,
is constructed on the double piston
type, taking fuel in behind one piston
and exploding it between the two. Civ
ing twice the expanding action Of tn
explosion possible in the ordinary en-
CINE. thereby giving economy OF fuel
The exhaust of the engine is as light a
a puff of steam.
1.-The moving parts of single cylin
der engine are the fywheel and shaft
crank connecting rods, ross-head, pts
tons, one simple missing valves and
governor, 1t is so quiet that it's OPP
GRAFTON will not annoy a neighbor, ever
though he should be in the next room.
1T will run under water, with onl.
the carburetor exposed Although tn
igniting is accomplished by heat re
tanned in the gas not. exhausted afte
every stroke, the engine never get
hot. and will run in any temperature
1t is started with the head of an ordi
nary match
'One of the engines was sold in Lii
gonier to B. F. Graves. Mr. Graves ha
since moved to ST. Petersburg, Fla, an,
at present has the engine, a ten-horse
power stationary Haney. In Ligonier
| Ind, and the surrounding country Their
are a number of the motors in salts
factory use"