Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-03-13
NVAI.lIA Liza, s. c.:
WIiIRI.S 5000 TIMES MINUTE.
&. ". Stribling Has Wonderful In
ycntion--Stsam Principles.
(AndcrSOn { Mail.)

G. w. Stribling. who has perfected Il
number Of devices, has in his shop
on Church street a turbine wheel. |
driven by steam, which can make, 1t
is estimated. 5000 revolutions Il
minute.
The turbine is operated by means |
OF steam driven through a jet 1-16th |
OF an inch in diameter. so small that |
the thickness Of Il sheet of writing
paper would stop it. These jets Of
steam passing upon the surface Of
the turbine wheel give 1t the rotary |
mU'ion by being caught up in late |
raj vanes travcrSinG the wheel. The |
most delicate machine in the city |
registers up to 10000 revolutions a
minute, and this cannot measure the |
revolutions Of Mr.. Stribling's device |
Another very important and use
fnl invention, though not one which |
so appeals to the inventor himself, is |
brush used for washing soda and
milk bottles. This brush revOlvcs
around Il spindle which injects water
into the bottle through several places
in the brush. The present mode OF
washing congresses the air at the
bottom Of the bottles and they are
not thoroughly cleaned
With regard to his invention and
Of the principles of driving by steam,
Mr.. Stribling has prepared the follow
ing statement:
We learn from history that the
first steam engine was brought to
this country from England in 1853,
having been luventcd some fifty years
earlier by the eminent chemist and
famous first engineer, James Watt.
Since the first appearance OF the
steam engine in America Yankees
have been making improvements
upon the original machine. Almost
every conccivahlc idea that promised
10 convert water into vapor has been
tried out in the construction Of
steam boilers.
From the weak, cumbersome,
drum type boiler, with its ability To
bear only a pressure Of II to IA
pounds per square inch, of the days
OF Mr.. Watt and the Coopers. has
been developed the massive water
to bear working prcssures of 500
pounds per square inch. and the pres
sure would probably be carried much
higher but for the .act that to oh
tain these high preSsurcs the steam
must be superhcatcd, and this SUPER
heating would, owing to the fact that
steel loses about tivr-SiXthS OF it's
strer 9Th on being brought to a red
heat. render the strongest boilers un- |
safe. But the engine itself has un- |
dcrgonc more changes in some re-
spccts, than any other machine |
know OF.
The principle OF steam engines is |
to-day exactly what it was 200 years |
ago. That is, steam must be emit |
ted to the cylinder through an open
ing tcallcd the porto. exert itself
against a n.nvahle head (callcd the
niStom and be gotten ont OF the cyl- |
called Il porto. That means that dur
ing onc~half OF tho revolution OF the
driving wheel. whether locomotive
or stationary engine, the piston is
traNCiing in one direction and dur
ing the other half the revolution, the
same piston is going in the opposite
direction. and that means again that
AT ne end Of one travel OF the ps-
TON. or onc-hait revolution OF the
vince! 'hcrc must be cOmplctc stop
ol IN" piston before it can reverse
Itself for the travel i'm the ounosjtc
"Iro''ioh, or the other half rcvolu- |
,lon ON the wheel. Il also means
'h't ehc steam which drove the MIS-
TON IN one direction must he gotten
out OF the cylinder before the pistor
can make its trip in the opposite di-
rcction.
Ihch 1t necessarily follows that
the speed at which the piston will
travel in either direction OF It's stroke
is very largely determined, not ca
much by the load which the onoino
has to draw, but by the speed ot
which the expended steam is gotten
out Of the cylinder after the piston
has reached the end Of It's travel