The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-20
GREAT CLAIMS ARE
MADE BY RU1ztN
Inventor Of Spring Motor Says
His Machine Will Revo-
lutionize Power
World,
FOR FARM AND CITY
No More Use for Water Power Dams
or Steam Engines When
His Motor Gets
Busy.
FOR FARM AND CITY

! WASHINGTON Feb 20.-A spring !
motor in the barn to run the pump and
corn cutter, another in the dairy to-
run the churn, a big one in the cellar
to run lighting dynamo and smaller
ones to draw every wagon and farm
i implement On the place such is
farm scene of 1916 as pictured today
by A. c. Rutzen, inventor, who pro-
!, poses to revolutionize power develop
ment.
In the city home it can be used to
generate electricity for lighting, heat
J, ing and cooking at the cost of few
drops of oil on the bearings each day.
says Rutzen.
There is no power, steam or cleo
, trical or mechanical, that my motor
I will not supplant at small fraction
: lof the COST Rutzen explained today.
!, Furthermore it will be much more
: safe and convenient. To get power
economically today, big central power
r plants are necessary and the power IS
{ generally distributed over high volt
$ age wires that are dangerous to every
Z body near them and that occasions
: -lgreat waste Of energy.
with spring motors, however, 1000
: horsepower can be developed by ten
q motors in ten different places or by
9 twenty fifty horse power motors fully
I as Acheaply as single plant. This
Twill abolish all high voltage and Its
y attendant dangers.
cts simplicity and economy will
u permit It's use In many places where
mechanical power has not heretofore
s been used Particularly will this be
II true on the farm though I am an en-
. gineer and not farmer. For one
g thing it will give the farmer all the
electricity he wants, as heretofore
steam engine or water power mas
been required to run the dynamo.
] Does your motor solve the riddle
lc of perpetual motion?" Rutzen was
= asked. a
lea "Theoreucally no. but for all prac
VI sisass Ksbalslif e iqnsnie' mplie'
N something for nothing which is i'm
sible. To some it appears that thu
to Rutzen motor does this but the secre
,e lies in the division OF power. In lo'
le spring motor, the power of SO spring
is always winding the Tooth sprln'
is which takes but one-third of thel
ct energy"
IA "Are we going to have spring me
go tor trust?' :"
7 II and / hpI1aV
can. The demand for motors WI
be too great for any one plant to SUI
u nly. We may sell the American right
gs ON a royalty basis, but an unlimite
Re output will be assured
tn Where do you expact to give Tn
so next demonstration of the motor?'
he .In Washington, Pittsburgh, or Me-
York, The highest bidder for Tn
to American rights leaves 1t to us :
sav where the demonstration shall Q
made and the matter is stll und'
ciGed."
Rutzen said his scale of prices fc
81 the motors had not been figured 0,
OK but that probably the household typ
- - could bs made to sell for $50.
The patent office refuses 70 accel
'w appltcations for patents ON perpetu'
hs motion devices and for this reaso
H. the Rutzen motor has not come OF
. cially before them. 1t was lsarne
today, however, that on January
the Cleveland inventor Informally la
his specifications before them. A
r. applications are held as confidenti
= by the patent offics.
An official of the bureau said todi
that when informed that the cover
-, ment does not receive patent apple
=, tions for perpetual motion machine
- Rutzen promised to bring workil
49,. model of his motor to Washington al
put it in operation to support h
i, claims 1t Is understood Rutzen clair
-; patents on three point. starting .
@ e, vice, winding scheme and DISTRIBUTE
:, ns plan for the power generated. Pate
ofics experts expressed skepticis
about the Rutzen motor.
The
iet, Killed by Ball.