El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-01-02
THISPLANT RUNS
WITHOUT WASTE
Everything in Big Auto
mobile Factory is Used;
Even the SaWdUst.

The degree to which what were
formerly. waste products are utilized
in large manufacturing establishments
is surprising to any one not 1amlIlar
with all of these present day methods:
Many a large plant is able because OF
the extent Of its operations TO Ihus re-
duce manufacturing costs as compared
with operations performed on smaller
In the Toledo plant Of The WHY'S
Overland COMPANY, utilization of saw
dust and scrap from the wood
working departments alone saves
100000 per year in the coal
bill. Not only is the fact OF
this large saving by utilizing an other-
wise waste product of interest but
the mechanism by which it is accom-
plished is an excellent example OF the
usefulness to which automatic pro-
cesses have been developed
To operate the drop forge plant IN
which there are so steam manner 3
and to heat the 25 acres of new build
ings Just completed, requires 10 huSe
boilers of a total of $500 horsepower
CAPACITY. These boilers would con-
sumo 200 ton of coal for every winter
day if it were necessary to use coal;
The use of the waste from the WOOD
working shops saves almost 1-3 OF
this, and practically eliminates neeu
for coal in summer, reaching in the
course of a year the enormous totaI
saving mentioned above
The interior of the wood working
sbons is entirely free from shavings,
sawdust and other scrap material.
Large tubes lead from the point on
every machine where this waste drops
to a central point beneath the tloor
and to which all the waste wood pro-
ducts are drawn by a strong forced
current of air. The scrap is taken
from this point by an endless leather
belt to a powerful wood grinder which
comDletelv puIverizes the entire mass
This crushed wood is blown by electric
fans into huge bins located above the
furnaces; chutes from these BINS
lead directly to the fire pots
into which at stated inervals a fixed
quantity is released by automatic
means. At night when the WOOD
shops are not working, 1t is not nee
essarv to use coal The coal cars
run on the tracks located along
side the power house, from when
the coal is automatically dumped
into large receiving bin.
This coal is picked up by an
! endless chain of automatic hoppers
that carry it up into compartments
above the furnaces. Like the WOOD
scrap this coal is automatically released
and fed into the furnaces in fixed
quantities at regular intervals. AS the
fuel is consumed the ashes are
| automatically separated and dropped
. p
! chain of moving buckets. These buck
cts carry the ashes outside the FUR
mace room and empty automatically
| into the unIoaded coal cars.
Even water supply to the boilers Is
entirely selfregulating. \ small gage
! is set at the desired height and the
| water feed does the rest, automatically
turning on and shutting off the flow
as the conditions require.
The officials take justifiable PRIDE
| in this power house. which, with 1t $
! arrangements of bridges, ladders and
pines reminds one of large modern
boat. 1t is just as immaculate, also.
The arrangements of the mechanism
| is a marvel of accessibility. MonstrOus
as is the physical size and capacity OF
the equipment, every part can be
| reached for inspection and necessary
repair work quickly and convenient
| W. The pipe in which the steam IS
! conducted from the boilers to the build
| ings where it is to be used are located
( in concrete trenches. These pipes
I which at the source are 20 inches in
diameter, are large as sewer pipes in
average size cities. Because of the
way in which they are piped through
| the trenches, every section, JOINT ana
! fitting is accessible. Should d1ttlculJy
! Of any kind arise. the time and cost
| necessary to correct it is thus cut to
/ a minimum.
This case; where neither the wood
| coal nor ashes are handled during the