The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-06-15
NEW GENERATOR IS
HIGHLY EFFICIENT
Hydro Pneumatic Device Gives Great
ly Increased Mileage on Mixture
of Gasoline and Kerosene.


Five hundred million dollars is a
conservative estimate of the annual
saving, according to experts, to the
concern of automobiles (pleasure cars
and trucks), effected by the Duntley
Hydro-Pneumatic gas generator,
which has been perfected and patent
ed by John w. Duntley of Chicago,
Ill. This device is being placed on
the market at a most opportune time.
1t will bring an enormous saving to
the nation without realizing this vast
sum is accommodating in the pockets of
the users of pleasure cars and trucks.
This gas generator enables the use of
fuel of one-half kerosene and one
half gasoline at cost of ID cents per
gallon. This ingenious device handles
this low-grade fuel with absolutely
perfect combustion, eliminates carbon
deposit; there is an absence of any
gaseous odor or smoke or vapor. The
motor operates on superheated hy-
drogen and carbon monoxide gas of
unknown chemical analysis. The mix
ture, however, is known beyond doubt
to possess very high heat units, which
increases the power of the motor from
10 per cent to Is per cent, depending
upon the condition of the motor.
No vaporized fuel enters the cvlin-
ders and in consequence there is moth
ing to carbonize or to work past the
piston rings and deteriorate the lubri-
eating oil in the crank case. It will
be appreciated by motorists or owners
of trucks, there will be less bearing
troubles and the absence of carbon in
sures perfect seating of the valves.
The valves will rarely require grind
ing in, except at long intervals. Rings,
wrist pins and bearing will have
heightened life, and motor repairs
will be reduced to a minimum. The
motor runs cooler and spark plugs
maintain clean and bright firing
points which rarely ever require at
tention unless a piston ring should
break and allow lubricating oil to
pass by and into the combustion
chamber. The power of the motor is
increased from the fact that this new
gas does not suddenly explore, but
burns and expands behind the piston
for its full length of travel, or, in
other words, duplicates the action of
steam.
1t is impossible by any known
method of manoeuvring to make the
motor miss, load up or produce labor
pound, so common in motors using
vaporized fuel prior to the advent of
this hydro-pneumatic gas generator.
The increased mileage to the gallon of
fuel is due to the fact that a fine ad-
Justment of the fuel needle valve is
necessary, thus reducing the quantity
of fuel vaporized through the car
buretor. This fuel becomes super
heated and the water and air automat-
lcally consumed to harmonic with
motor speed becomes, through unique
mechanical construction of the gem
orator, superheated dry steam. The
carbon in the superheated fuel having
an affinity for steam is instantly alb
sorbed by the superheated steam, and
the whole is transformed into high
temperature hydrogen gas.
Chemists will appreciate the impos-
siblllty of an analysis at the tempera-
ture at which he gas enters the eX-
ploslve chamber and is exploded and
in consequence its true chemial
makeup may never be known def
nltely. But who cares so long as the
citizens of Uncle Sam are saved the
Stupendous sum of $500, 100000 an
nualIy? The estimate is conservative
and may be twice that sum. A new
1917 Ford car which had been run
about 500 miles and which was giving
10 to 1S miles to the gallon of gaso-
line was then tested with half gaso-
line and half kerosene at IA cents per
gallon, using the Duntley hydro -pneu-
matte gas generator, and gave 81
miles to the gallon. This test showed
increased mileage plus saving in cost
of fuel and effected a maximum saw
ing to the owner of 56 per cent. A
Little Giant" truck of two ton ca
pacity with gas generator attached is
being exhibited by the Gibbes Machin-
cry company at their place of bust
ness, corner Wheat and Assembly
streets.-Columbia Record.