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American Machinist August 30 1884, vol. 7 no. 35
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A Manufacturing Corporation's Objections Mechanical Refrigeration. to Trade Combinations.
For several months vigorous agitation has
We have been interested in the perusal of been kept up by the butchers of New York a, circular letter, in which
a company engaged against the transportation of dead meat from in maufacturing saddlery hardware
explain, the West and South in refrigerator cars. As to the members of the Saddlery Hardware a part of , this
opposition to dressed meat Manufacturers' Association, their reasons for brought from a distance, the
assertion is Ire-declining further action with that organiza- quently made that the process of refrigeration.
tion is carried out by chemical means, which
After enumerating the lines of manufacture deteriorate the meat and introduce ingreinstanced, as working
most successfully in dients that prove injurious to health. So suc- combination, viz.: the rivet, nail, hoop iron,
cessfully has this crusade against dressed tack, and, more particularly, the wall-paper meat been carried on
that the Central Labor trades, they call attention to the fact that Union was induced to pass resolutions con-
these instances are not parallel to the intricate demning the practice of bringing meat to and diversified line
of saddlery goods, largely New York that had been subjected to the produced by hand labor. They note the
ease refrigerating process, although no body of with which saddlery hardware manufac- citizens are more
directly interested than turers, producing, as most of them do, lines those who compose labor unions in the
sucof specialties not in the combination, can use cess of any process that tends to reduce these as leaders
to influence sales, while the famine prices that New York butchers nominally adhering to combination prices
on habitually put upon the articles of food they other goods. supply to the public. As much profound
After further enumerating several circum- ignorance prevails regarding how refrigerastances incident to that
business, they reach tion of meat is carried on, we propose givthe conclusion that the success of the wall-
big a brief description of the process folpaper manufacturers in maintaining corn- lowed.
bination prices is due to the fact of their At the foot of Sixtieth. Street, near the being practically manufacturers
of a non- Hudson River, New York City, there is a diversified product, produced entirely by large, oblong brick
building, covering a expensive machinery, which insures them whole block, where slaughtering and re-
against the inroads of manufacturers with frigerating meat are extensively carried on by small capital; to the
fact that on account of T. C. Eastman. The system of refrigeration the large production in these limited lines, it
followed here may be accepted as representais practicable for the manufacturers to carry tive of mechanical
refrigeration. Although the stock for the jobbers; and finally, to other establishments pursue methods that the
fact of the manufacturers' peculiar rela- differ in details, the difference is not orations with and control of the
small dealers. terial, since the same end is accomplished.
The state of things prevailing in this im- We shall not pause to describe the excel- portant industry is, or may
be, in these times lent mechanical arrangements carried out in when so much is said about overproduction,
the Eastman place for killing the cattle, of interest to persons who contemplate en- cleaning, skinning and
transporting them to gaging in manufacturing pursuits. the refrigerating rooms. Suffice it, that they
Another objection urged, forcibly, is that can kill 500 head of cattle in ten hours, and under the combination
plan, the three or the greater part of the handing Is done by four members of the executive board have,
specially-designed hydraulic machinery. The by virtue of their position, special opportuni- sanitary
arranggments seem perfect, and ties not shared by the others, to become in- nothing is wasted. The
carcasses, while formed of the volume of trade, not. only in still warm, are hung in refrigerating rooms,
different sections of the country, but of each where they remain hanging for several days particular dealer,
and of the volume of busi- till they become frozen solid. Two refrigerness of each particular manufacturer, en-
ating machines, placed in another building, abling them, from a superior knowledge of produce the low
temperature which freezes
kept cool by passing over pipes containing the expanded ammonia. In other cases a current of, air is passed
over the pipes containing the freezing medium, and from thence injected into the rooms. Although ammonia
is a peculiarly odorous gas, no smell of it can be detected about the freezing rooms, so it is impossible that it
can impregnate the meat.
In the Western States, where establishments of this kind are located for killing cattle direct from the pastures,
the meat is kept till it is ready for transportation, when it is shipped in refrigerator cars that are kept cold by a
supply of ice. The flesh of animals killed fresh from the pasture and preserved by this process, must be
more wholesome food than the flesh of animals that have been tortured through many hundreds of miles
journey in a railroad car.
Sand Dryers for Locomotives.
Several weeks ago the chief draftsman of a leading railroad, who was in New York on business connected
with the equipment of new shops with the necessary machinery, called at this office, and during conversation
mentioned that he had seen no good appa-
ratus for drying the sand needed for loco-
comotives. At his suggestion we put a note in the paper, asking anyone who knew by experience of a
satisfactory arrangement for drying sand to furnish particulars for the the benefit of others. In answer to this
request we have received quite a number of communications about sand dryers, but most of them related to
stoves or furnaces where the sand is dried on hot plates. We have endured quite extensive experience with
sand dryers of this description, and we do not think any of them fill what is a felt want. A furnace with hot
plates for sand drying is a most expensive and troublesome way of getting the work done. We have tried the
best stove arrangements—or, at least, those that have been most industriously advertised as perfect—and
we found them but little better than the furnace. The ordinary sand drying furnaces and stoves in use are
made to dry sand, but we do not know of any industrial operation where so much coal is consumed for such
a small return in usefnlnaa_
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NEW YORK, AUGUST 30, 1884.
CONTENTS.
rAn;:
New Machine Tools by the Pratt & Whitney Co.
Inquiries on Making Steel Ordnance............
AnImproved Injector..........................
Steam Boilers. By George Marshall............
ElevatorAccidents ..............................
Foundry Cranes. By Thomas D. West..........
Treatment of American Workmen in Mexico...
Reducing Expense of Repairs of Railroad Roll-
ingStock........................................
An English Railway Accident....................
A Dangerous Anti-Inerustant ............. ......
. Inertia. By John W. Nystrom.................
Personal........................................
Cotton-Picking Machine.........................
Fitting and Care of Axle Boxes. By J. D.
Campbell........................................
Hall's Automatic Injector .......................
GermanEngine Drivers ..........................
Letters from Practical men—Sand-Drying De-
vice Removing Nuts from Hand-hole Bolts—Loosening Man-hole Covers—Breaking Water-Line Glasses to
Length—Rubber Packing—Testing Boilers—Method of Turning Ends of Rooker Arms—Boring Car Boxes -
Proportioning Slide Valves and Determining Effect of Different Proportions
.......................... 6,
The Philadelphia Electrical Exhibition.........
Warner & Swasey's Method of Sizing Gear Wheels.
........................................
National Convention of Fire Engineers.........
Hydraulic Distribution of Power ...............
. A Manufacturing Corporation's Objections to
TradeCombinations ..........................
. £ TheSize of the Apple Barrel....................
MechanicalRefrigeration .......................
Sand Dryers for Locomotives..................
American Water Works Association............
f Questionsand Answers..........................
Manufactures....................................
Machinists' Supplies and Iron...................
i{
gaging in manufacturing pursuits.
Another objection urged, forcibly, is that under the combination plan, the three or four members of the
executive board have, by virtue of their position, special opportunities not shared by the others, to become
informed of the volume of trade, not only in different sections of the country, but of each particular dealer, and
of the volume of business of each particular manufacturer, enabling them, from a superior knowledge of the
requirements of the various sections, and the product of the several manufacturers, to make earlier and
more reliable estimates of the probable course of trade than the other members of the organization can
hope to do.
After stating other important objections, reference is then made to the example which manufacturers, who do
not like to see unions formed among their men for the purpose of influencing the volume or price of the
product which the workmen have to sell, viz.: their labor, set to their men, by themselves entering a
combination of manufacturers formed to influence in similar ways the volume and price of what they have to
sell, viz., their goods.
The Size of the Apple Barrel.
One of the burning non-political questions of the day (political questions being, of course, always burning
questions) in western New York, is the size of the apple barrel. Like the weight of a ton of coal or the size of
the traditional piece of chalk, the package in which the esculent apple is carried to market has always given
trouble. In fact, the apple itself has made more or less trouble for mankind since the days of Mother Eve.
Now, however, the vexed question is likely to be soon settled, and we shall know whether the standard apple
barrel is to bear any relation to the barrel ordinarily used to contain the resulting juice of that fruit, or whether it
is to sympathize in size with the beer barrel, the pork barrel, the flour barrel, or the barrel of money which we
see so often referred to in the political papers. At any rate, we shall all hereafter munch the ponderous pippin
or rubicund rambo with more satisfaction when assured that it was conveyed to market in a barrel of
orthodox dimensions.the refrigerating rooms. Suffice it, that they can kill 500 head of cattle in ten hours, and
the greater part of the handling is done by specially-designed hydraulic machinery. The sanitary
arrangements seem perfect, and nothing is wasted. The carcasses, while still warm, are hung in
refrigerating rooms, where they remain hanging for several days till they become frozen solid. Two
refrigerating machines, placed in another building, produce the low temperature which freezes this dead
meat. The machines are of the De La Vergue type.
Each machine consists of two compressors, 18x36 inches, driven by a HarrisCorliss engine, 32x36 inches.
These machines, combined, are capable of producing refrigeration equal to the melting of 220 tons, of ice
every twenty-four hours. Ammonia gas is used to produce refrigeration, but the operation is entirely
mechanical, and the gas has no more to do waith the meat operated' upon than the steam that runs a flour
mill has to do with the flour turned out. The same may be said for ether gas, which is used in some
refrigerating operations, and, along with ammonia, is made a bugbear by the enemies of dressed meat. The
compressor takes in anhydrous ammonia, and compresses the gas to a tension of 160 pounds to the
square inch, which liquifies the gas. This liquid is forced, while under compression, through a coil of pipes,
over which cold water continually runs, which abstracts the heat due to compressing. The liquid, thus cooled,
is now wire drawn, and permitted to expand through pipes coiled round the freezing rooms. The gas,
previously in a small volume, was robbed of its heat, and now, when it is expanded into a large space, the
gas becomes intensely cold, and the pipes assume a temperature about the same as the gas inside. By
this means the cold pipes reduce the temperature of the air in the room to whatever point is needed for the
process of refrigeration. As the gas gets warmed in keeping down the temperature of its surroundings, it is
drawn off, to be again compressed, and a newly-cooled supply passed into the pipes; so the cycle of
refrigerating work is kept going.
Part of these refrigerating works is cooled by a brine mixture which keeps liquid below the freezing point, and
is run through the pipes in the freezing rooms. This brine is
In last week's issue we referred briefly to the report of this association, closing our reference with a
suggestion of the advisability of the association paying attention to the tests of water-works machinery. Since
then we have received a communication from the secretary, J. G. Briggs, of Terre Haute, Ind., inclosing a
blank, from which we extract the following:
To the Members of the Am,rican Water- Works Association and others interested in Steam Coals.
GENTLEMEN: The arduous duty of ascertaining the relative value of all the different kinds of coal in use
throughout the country (in connection with a proposed system of keeping records and making annual
reports) was assigned to a committee at our last convention. In order to compile a statement that will be
a most expensive and troublesome way of getting the work done. We have tried the best stove
arrangements—or, at least, those that have been most industriously advertised as perfect—and we found
them but little better than the furnace. The ordinary sand drying furnaces and stoves in use are made to dry
sand, but we do not know of any industrial operation where so much coal is consumed for such a small
return in usefulness.
In another column Mr. Crowley describes an appliance which he put up for, drying sand, which we consider
to be a step in the right direction, and which is worthy of the attention of those interested in this subject. . The
device consists of an arrangement of steam pipes, which dry the sand and permit it to drop away from
contact so soon as the moisture is extracted. If we mistake not, a similar device is in use at the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad shops at Aurora, Ill., and gives perfect satisfaction. We think it would pay a
manufacturer to put a dryer of this kind upon the market. An arrangement of pipes could be made and
provided with the means of returning the condensed water back to the boiler, by that means saving fuel. We
are certain that no railroad company could afford to be without a sand dryer of this kind, if it were got out at a
moderate expense. Meanwhile, we commend the description of the pipe sand dryer to the attention of master
mechanics.
American Water-Works Association.
a yoan, un auvauvo, yvauaKo yI-oyalu iu .u. United States and Canada.
$8.60 to Foreign Countries, postage prepaid.
ADVERTISING.
Transient, 850. per line, each insertion. ;"Business Specials," Soc. a line.
EDITORIAL ANNOIRV CEMENTS.
Aositively we will neither publish anything i' our reading columns for pay or in consideration of ad vertising
patronage. Those who wish to recommcnc their wares to our readers can do so as fully as thei choose in
our advertising columns, but our editoria opinions are not for sale. We give no premiums to secure either
subscribers or advertisers.
°Every correspondent, in order to insure atten (ion, should give his full name and address, not fov
publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.
We are not engaged in procuring patent rights. or in setting machinery, nor have we any pet scheme to
advance, Or hobby to ride.
We invite correspondence from practical machin. ists, engineers, inventcrs, draughtsmen and all those
especially interested in the occupations we represent, on subjects perthinsng to machinery.
'Subscribers can have the mailing address of their paper changed as often as they desire. Bend boll old and
new addresses. Those who fail to receive thet, papers promptly will please notify us at once.
NEW YORK, AUGUST 30, 1884.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Now Machine Tools by the Pratt & Whitney Co. 1
Inquiries on Making Steel Ordnance............ ]
An Improved Injector.... ... .... .. I
Steam Boilers. By George Marshall............. 1
ElevatorAccidents. ..... .. ..........
Foundry Cranes. By Thomas D. West.......... Treatment of American Workmen in Mexico... 3 Reducing
Expense of Repairs of Railroad Roll-
ingStock........, . ............................. 3
An English Railway Accident................... 3
A Dangerous 1nti-Inerustant ................... 3
Inertia. By John W. Nystrom ........ ......... 4
Personal................................. ....... 4 Cotton-Picking Machine .................
Fitting and Care of Axle Boxes. By J. D.
Campbell............................... . 5
Hall's Automatic Injector ..... ................. 5
German Engine Drivers ........ ................ 5
Letters from Practical men—Sand-Drying De- vice - Removing Nuts from Hand-hole Bolts— Loosening Man-
hole Covers—Breaking Water-Line Glasses to Length—Rubber Packing-
gaging, in manufacturing pursuits.
Another, objection urged, forcibly, is that under the combination plan, the three or four members of the
executive board have, by virtue of their position, special opportunities not shared by the others, to become
informed of the volume of trade, not, only in different sections of the country, but of each particular dealer, and
of the volume of business of each particular manufacturer, enabling them, from a superior knowledge of the
requirements of the various sections, and the product of the several manufacturers, to make earlier and
more reliable estimates of the probable course of trade than the other members of the organization can
hope to do.
After stating other Important objections, reference is then made to the example which manufacturers, who do
not like to see unions formed among their men for the purpose of influencing the volume or price of the
product which the workmen have to sell, Viz.: their labor, set to their men, by themselves entering a
combination of manufacturers formed to influence in similar ways the volume and price of what they have to
sell, viz., their goods.
The Size of the Apple Barrel.
One of the burning non-political questions of the day (political questions being, of course, always burning
questions) in western New York, is the size of the apple barrel. Like the weight of a ton of coal or the size of
the traditional piece of chalk, the package in which the esculent apple is carried to market has always given
trouble. In fact, the apple itself has made more or less trouble for mankind since the days of Mother Eve.
Now, however, the vexed question is likely to be soon settled, and we shall know whether the standard apple
barrel is to bear any relation to the barrel ordinarily used to contain the resulting juice of that fruit, or whether'
it is to sympathize in size with the beer barrel, the pork barrel, the flour barrel, or the barrel of money which we
see so often referred to in the political papers. At any rate, we shall all hereafter munch the ponderous pippin
or rubicund rambo with more satisfaction when assured that it was conveyed to market in a barrel of
orthodox dimensions.the refrigerating rooms. Suffice it, that they can kill 500 head of cattle in ten hours, and
the greater pait of the handling Is done by specially-designed hydraulic'machinery. The sanitary
arrangements seem perfect, and nothing is wasted. The carcasses, while still warm, are hung in
refrigerating rooms, where they remain hanging for several days till they become frozen solid. Two
refrigerating machines, placed in another building, produce the low temperature which freezes this dead
meat. The machines are of the De La Vergne type.
Each machine consists of two compressors, 18x36 inches, driven by a HarrisCorliss engine, 32x36 inches.
These machines, combined, are capable of producing refrigeration equal to the melting of 220 tons, of ice
every twenty-four hours. Ammonia gas is used to produce refrigeration, but the operation Is entirely
mechanical, and the gas has no more to do with of meat operated upon than the steam that runs a flour mill
has to do with the flour turned out. The same may be said for ether gas, which is used in some refrigerating
operations, and, along with ammonia, is made a bugbear by the enemies of dressed meat. The compressor
takes in anhydrous ammonia, and compresses the gas to a tension of 160 pounds to the square inch, which
liquifies the gas. This liquid is forced, while under compression, through a coil of pipes, over which cold
water continually runs, which abstracts the heat due to compressing. The liquid, thus cooled, is now wire
drawn, and permitted to expand through pipes coiled round the freezing rooms. The gas, previously in a
small volume, was robbed of its heat, and now, when it is expanded into a large space, the gas becomes
intensely cold, and the pipes assume a temperature about the same as the gas inside. By this means the
cold pipes reduce the temperature of the air in the room to whatever point is needed for the process of
refrigeration. As the gas gets warmed in keeping down the temperature of its surroundings, it is drawn off, to
be again compressed, and a newly-cooled supply passed into the pipes; so the cycle of refrigerating work is
kept going.
Part of these refrigerating works is cooled ly a brine mixture which keeps liquid below the freezing point, and
is run through the pipes in the freezing rooms. This brine is
a most expensive and troublesome way of
getting the work done. ', We have tried the
best stove arrangements—or, at least, those !,
that have been most industriously advertised
as perfect—and we found them but little
better than the furnace. The ordinary sand
drying furnaces and stoves in use are made
to dry sand, but we do not know of any
industrial operation where so much coal is
consumed for such a small return in use-
fulness.
In another column Mr. Crowley describes
an appliance which he put up fon drying
sand, which we consider ,to be a step in the
right direction, and which is worthy of the
attention of those interested in this subject. .
The device consists of an arrangement of
steam pipes, which dry the sand and permit
it to drop away from contact so soon as the tS;
moisture is extracted. If we mistake not, a
similar device is in use at the Chicago, Bur-
lington a.Quincy Railroad shops at Aurora,
Ill., and gives perfect satisfaction. We think
it would pay a manufacturer to put a dryer
of this kind upon the market. An arrange-
ment of pipes could be made and provided
with the means of returning the condensed
water back to the boiler, by that means
saving fuel. We are certain that no railroad
company could afford to be without a sand
dryer of this kind, if it were got out at a
moderate expense. Meanwhile, we commend
the description of the pipe sand dryer to the
attention of master mechanics.
American Water-Works Association.
In last week's issue we referred briefly to the report of this association, closing our reference with a
suggestion of the advisability of the association paying attention to the tests of water-works machinery. Since
then we have received a communication from the secretary, J. G. Briggs, of Terre Haute, Ind., inclosing a
blank, from which we extract the following:
To the Members of the Am, rican Water- Works Association and others interested in Steam Coals.
GENTLEMxx : The arduous duty of ascertaining the relative value of all the different kinds of coal in use
throughout the country (in connection with a proposed system of keeping records and making annual
reports) was assigned to a committee at our last convention. In order to compile a statement that will be
nuvncr rirlr. —norm vwr nu.&e - ra upvi'Livu-
ing Slide Valves and Determining Effect of
DifferentProportions .......................... 6, 7
The Philadelphia Electrical Exhibition......... 7
Warner & Swasey's Method of Sizing Gear
Wheels.: ....: .......................... 7
National Convention of Fire .Engineers......... 7
Hydraulic Distribution of Power .............. . 7
A Manufacturing Corporation's Objections to
TradeCombinations ................... . 8
TheSize of the Apple Barrel .................... 8
Mechanic0,1 Refrigeration ...................... S
Sand Dryers for Locomotives ............ ...... 8
American Water Works Association............ 8
Questions and Answers........
Manufactures........' ....................... 9
Machinists'' Supplies and Iron ................... 10
BY American Machinist Publishing Co.
HORACE B. MILLER, Pres't.
JACKSON BAILEY, Vice-Pres't.
LYCURaus B. MOORE, Treas. and Sec'y.
96 Fulton Street, New York.
JACKSON BAILEY, HORACE B. MILLER,
Editor. Business Manager.
F. F. HEMENwAY,1 Mechanical Engineers.
ANaus SINCLAIR,
l
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Positively we will neither publish anything in
our reading columns for pay or in consideration of ad-
vertising patronage. Those who wish to recommend
A Manufacturing Corporation's Objections Mechanical Refrigeration. to Trade Combinations.
For several months vigorous agitation has
We have been interested in the perusal of been kept up by the butchers of New York a, circular letter, in which
a company engaged against the transportation of dead meat from in maufacturing saddlery hardware
explain, the West and South in refrigerator cars. As to the members of the Saddlery Hardware a part of , this
opposition to dressed meat Manufacturers' Association, their reasons for brought from a distance, the
assertion is Ire-declining further action with that organiza- quently made that the process of refrigeration.
tion is carried out by chemical means, which
After enumerating the lines of manufacture deteriorate the meat and introduce ingreinstanced, as working
most successfully in dients that prove injurious to health. So suc- combination, viz.: the rivet, nail, hoop iron,
cessfully has this crusade against dressed tack, and, more particularly, the wall-paper meat been carried on
that the Central Labor trades, they call attention to the fact that Union was induced to pass resolutions con-
these instances are not parallel to the intricate demning the practice of bringing meat to and diversified line
of saddlery goods, largely New York that had been subjected to the produced by hand labor. They note the
ease refrigerating process, although no body of with which saddlery hardware manufac- citizens are more
directly interested than turers, producing, as most of them do, lines those who compose labor unions in the
sucof specialties not in the combination, can use cess of any process that tends to reduce these as leaders
to influence sales, while the famine prices that New York butchers nominally adhering to combination prices
on habitually put upon the articles of food they other goods. supply to the public. As much profound
After further enumerating several circum- ignorance prevails regarding how refrigerastances incident to that
business, they reach tion of meat is carried on, we propose givthe conclusion that the success of the wall-
big a brief description of the process folpaper manufacturers in maintaining corn- lowed.
bination prices is due to the fact of their At the foot of Sixtieth. Street, near the being practically manufacturers
of a non- Hudson River, New York City, there is a diversified product, produced entirely by large, oblong brick
building, covering a expensive machinery, which insures them whole block, where slaughtering and re-
against the inroads of manufacturers with frigerating meat are extensively carried on by small capital; to the
fact that on account of T. C. Eastman. The system of refrigeration the large production in these limited lines, it
followed here may be accepted as representais practicable for the manufacturers to carry tive of mechanical
refrigeration. Although the stock for the jobbers; and finally, to other establishments pursue methods that the
fact of the manufacturers' peculiar rela- differ in details, the difference is not orations with and control of the
small dealers. terial, since the same end is accomplished.
The state of things prevailing in this im- We shall not pause to describe the excel- portant industry is, or may
be, in these times lent mechanical arrangements carried out in when so much is said about overproduction,
the Eastman place for killing the cattle, of interest to persons who contemplate en- cleaning, skinning and
transporting them to gaging in manufacturing pursuits. the refrigerating rooms. Suffice it, that they
Another objection urged, forcibly, is that can kill 500 head of cattle in ten hours, and under the combination
plan, the three or the greater part of the handing Is done by four members of the executive board have,
specially-designed hydraulic machinery. The by virtue of their position, special opportuni- sanitary
arranggments seem perfect, and ties not shared by the others, to become in- nothing is wasted. The
carcasses, while formed of the volume of trade, not. only in still warm, are hung in refrigerating rooms,
different sections of the country, but of each where they remain hanging for several days particular dealer,
and of the volume of busi- till they become frozen solid. Two refrigerness of each particular manufacturer, en-
ating machines, placed in another building, abling them, from a superior knowledge of produce the low
temperature which freezes
kept cool by passing over pipes containing the expanded ammonia. In other cases a current of, air is passed
over the pipes containing the freezing medium, and from thence injected into the rooms. Although ammonia
is a peculiarly odorous gas, no smell of it can be detected about the freezing rooms, so it is impossible that it
can impregnate the meat.
In the Western States, where establishments of this kind are located for killing cattle direct from the pastures,
the meat is kept till it is ready for transportation, when it is shipped in refrigerator cars that are kept cold by a
supply of ice. The flesh of animals killed fresh from the pasture and preserved by this process, must be
more wholesome food than the flesh of animals that have been tortured through many hundreds of miles
journey in a railroad car.
Sand Dryers for Locomotives.
Several weeks ago the chief draftsman of a leading railroad, who was in New York on business connected
with the equipment of new shops with the necessary machinery, called at this office, and during conversation
mentioned that he had seen no good appa-
ratus for drying the sand needed for loco-
comotives. At his suggestion we put a note in the paper, asking anyone who knew by experience of a
satisfactory arrangement for drying sand to furnish particulars for the the benefit of others. In answer to this
request we have received quite a number of communications about sand dryers, but most of them related to
stoves or furnaces where the sand is dried on hot plates. We have endured quite extensive experience with
sand dryers of this description, and we do not think any of them fill what is a felt want. A furnace with hot
plates for sand drying is a most expensive and troublesome way of getting the work done. We have tried the
best stove arrangements—or, at least, those that have been most industriously advertised as perfect—and
we found them but little better than the furnace. The ordinary sand drying furnaces and stoves in use are
made to dry sand, but we do not know of any industrial operation where so much coal is consumed for such
a small return in usefnlnaa_
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rAn;:
New Machine Tools by the Pratt & Whitney Co.
Inquiries on Making Steel Ordnance............
AnImproved Injector..........................
Steam Boilers. By George Marshall............
ElevatorAccidents ..............................
Foundry Cranes. By Thomas D. West..........
Treatment of American Workmen in Mexico...
Reducing Expense of Repairs of Railroad Roll-
ingStock........................................
An English Railway Accident....................
A Dangerous Anti-Inerustant ............. ......
. Inertia. By John W. Nystrom.................
Personal........................................
Cotton-Picking Machine.........................
Fitting and Care of Axle Boxes. By J. D.
Campbell........................................
Hall's Automatic Injector .......................
GermanEngine Drivers ..........................
Letters from Practical men—Sand-Drying De-
vice Removing Nuts from Hand-hole Bolts—Loosening Man-hole Covers—Breaking Water-Line Glasses to
Length—Rubber Packing—Testing Boilers—Method of Turning Ends of Rooker Arms—Boring Car Boxes -
Proportioning Slide Valves and Determining Effect of Different Proportions
.......................... 6,
The Philadelphia Electrical Exhibition.........
Warner & Swasey's Method of Sizing Gear Wheels.
........................................
National Convention of Fire Engineers.........
Hydraulic Distribution of Power ...............
. A Manufacturing Corporation's Objections to
TradeCombinations ..........................
. £ TheSize of the Apple Barrel....................
MechanicalRefrigeration .......................
Sand Dryers for Locomotives..................
American Water Works Association............
f Questionsand Answers..........................
Manufactures....................................
Machinists' Supplies and Iron...................
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gaging in manufacturing pursuits.
Another objection urged, forcibly, is that under the combination plan, the three or four members of the
executive board have, by virtue of their position, special opportunities not shared by the others, to become
informed of the volume of trade, not only in different sections of the country, but of each particular dealer, and
of the volume of business of each particular manufacturer, enabling them, from a superior knowledge of the
requirements of the various sections, and the product of the several manufacturers, to make earlier and
more reliable estimates of the probable course of trade than the other members of the organization can
hope to do.
After stating other important objections, reference is then made to the example which manufacturers, who do
not like to see unions formed among their men for the purpose of influencing the volume or price of the
product which the workmen have to sell, viz.: their labor, set to their men, by themselves entering a
combination of manufacturers formed to influence in similar ways the volume and price of what they have to
sell, viz., their goods.
The Size of the Apple Barrel.
One of the burning non-political questions of the day (political questions being, of course, always burning
questions) in western New York, is the size of the apple barrel. Like the weight of a ton of coal or the size of
the traditional piece of chalk, the package in which the esculent apple is carried to market has always given
trouble. In fact, the apple itself has made more or less trouble for mankind since the days of Mother Eve.
Now, however, the vexed question is likely to be soon settled, and we shall know whether the standard apple
barrel is to bear any relation to the barrel ordinarily used to contain the resulting juice of that fruit, or whether it
is to sympathize in size with the beer barrel, the pork barrel, the flour barrel, or the barrel of money which we
see so often referred to in the political papers. At any rate, we shall all hereafter munch the ponderous pippin
or rubicund rambo with more satisfaction when assured that it was conveyed to market in a barrel of
orthodox dimensions.the refrigerating rooms. Suffice it, that they can kill 500 head of cattle in ten hours, and
the greater part of the handling is done by specially-designed hydraulic machinery. The sanitary
arrangements seem perfect, and nothing is wasted. The carcasses, while still warm, are hung in
refrigerating rooms, where they remain hanging for several days till they become frozen solid. Two
refrigerating machines, placed in another building, produce the low temperature which freezes this dead
meat. The machines are of the De La Vergue type.
Each machine consists of two compressors, 18x36 inches, driven by a HarrisCorliss engine, 32x36 inches.
These machines, combined, are capable of producing refrigeration equal to the melting of 220 tons, of ice
every twenty-four hours. Ammonia gas is used to produce refrigeration, but the operation is entirely
mechanical, and the gas has no more to do waith the meat operated' upon than the steam that runs a flour
mill has to do with the flour turned out. The same may be said for ether gas, which is used in some
refrigerating operations, and, along with ammonia, is made a bugbear by the enemies of dressed meat. The
compressor takes in anhydrous ammonia, and compresses the gas to a tension of 160 pounds to the
square inch, which liquifies the gas. This liquid is forced, while under compression, through a coil of pipes,
over which cold water continually runs, which abstracts the heat due to compressing. The liquid, thus cooled,
is now wire drawn, and permitted to expand through pipes coiled round the freezing rooms. The gas,
previously in a small volume, was robbed of its heat, and now, when it is expanded into a large space, the
gas becomes intensely cold, and the pipes assume a temperature about the same as the gas inside. By
this means the cold pipes reduce the temperature of the air in the room to whatever point is needed for the
process of refrigeration. As the gas gets warmed in keeping down the temperature of its surroundings, it is
drawn off, to be again compressed, and a newly-cooled supply passed into the pipes; so the cycle of
refrigerating work is kept going.
Part of these refrigerating works is cooled by a brine mixture which keeps liquid below the freezing point, and
is run through the pipes in the freezing rooms. This brine is
In last week's issue we referred briefly to the report of this association, closing our reference with a
suggestion of the advisability of the association paying attention to the tests of water-works machinery. Since
then we have received a communication from the secretary, J. G. Briggs, of Terre Haute, Ind., inclosing a
blank, from which we extract the following:
To the Members of the Am,rican Water- Works Association and others interested in Steam Coals.
GENTLEMEN: The arduous duty of ascertaining the relative value of all the different kinds of coal in use
throughout the country (in connection with a proposed system of keeping records and making annual
reports) was assigned to a committee at our last convention. In order to compile a statement that will be
a most expensive and troublesome way of getting the work done. We have tried the best stove
arrangements—or, at least, those that have been most industriously advertised as perfect—and we found
them but little better than the furnace. The ordinary sand drying furnaces and stoves in use are made to dry
sand, but we do not know of any industrial operation where so much coal is consumed for such a small
return in usefulness.
In another column Mr. Crowley describes an appliance which he put up for, drying sand, which we consider
to be a step in the right direction, and which is worthy of the attention of those interested in this subject. . The
device consists of an arrangement of steam pipes, which dry the sand and permit it to drop away from
contact so soon as the moisture is extracted. If we mistake not, a similar device is in use at the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad shops at Aurora, Ill., and gives perfect satisfaction. We think it would pay a
manufacturer to put a dryer of this kind upon the market. An arrangement of pipes could be made and
provided with the means of returning the condensed water back to the boiler, by that means saving fuel. We
are certain that no railroad company could afford to be without a sand dryer of this kind, if it were got out at a
moderate expense. Meanwhile, we commend the description of the pipe sand dryer to the attention of master
mechanics.
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NEW YORK, AUGUST 30, 1884.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Now Machine Tools by the Pratt & Whitney Co. 1
Inquiries on Making Steel Ordnance............ ]
An Improved Injector.... ... .... .. I
Steam Boilers. By George Marshall............. 1
ElevatorAccidents. ..... .. ..........
Foundry Cranes. By Thomas D. West.......... Treatment of American Workmen in Mexico... 3 Reducing
Expense of Repairs of Railroad Roll-
ingStock........, . ............................. 3
An English Railway Accident................... 3
A Dangerous 1nti-Inerustant ................... 3
Inertia. By John W. Nystrom ........ ......... 4
Personal................................. ....... 4 Cotton-Picking Machine .................
Fitting and Care of Axle Boxes. By J. D.
Campbell............................... . 5
Hall's Automatic Injector ..... ................. 5
German Engine Drivers ........ ................ 5
Letters from Practical men—Sand-Drying De- vice - Removing Nuts from Hand-hole Bolts— Loosening Man-
hole Covers—Breaking Water-Line Glasses to Length—Rubber Packing-
gaging, in manufacturing pursuits.
Another, objection urged, forcibly, is that under the combination plan, the three or four members of the
executive board have, by virtue of their position, special opportunities not shared by the others, to become
informed of the volume of trade, not, only in different sections of the country, but of each particular dealer, and
of the volume of business of each particular manufacturer, enabling them, from a superior knowledge of the
requirements of the various sections, and the product of the several manufacturers, to make earlier and
more reliable estimates of the probable course of trade than the other members of the organization can
hope to do.
After stating other Important objections, reference is then made to the example which manufacturers, who do
not like to see unions formed among their men for the purpose of influencing the volume or price of the
product which the workmen have to sell, Viz.: their labor, set to their men, by themselves entering a
combination of manufacturers formed to influence in similar ways the volume and price of what they have to
sell, viz., their goods.
The Size of the Apple Barrel.
One of the burning non-political questions of the day (political questions being, of course, always burning
questions) in western New York, is the size of the apple barrel. Like the weight of a ton of coal or the size of
the traditional piece of chalk, the package in which the esculent apple is carried to market has always given
trouble. In fact, the apple itself has made more or less trouble for mankind since the days of Mother Eve.
Now, however, the vexed question is likely to be soon settled, and we shall know whether the standard apple
barrel is to bear any relation to the barrel ordinarily used to contain the resulting juice of that fruit, or whether'
it is to sympathize in size with the beer barrel, the pork barrel, the flour barrel, or the barrel of money which we
see so often referred to in the political papers. At any rate, we shall all hereafter munch the ponderous pippin
or rubicund rambo with more satisfaction when assured that it was conveyed to market in a barrel of
orthodox dimensions.the refrigerating rooms. Suffice it, that they can kill 500 head of cattle in ten hours, and
the greater pait of the handling Is done by specially-designed hydraulic'machinery. The sanitary
arrangements seem perfect, and nothing is wasted. The carcasses, while still warm, are hung in
refrigerating rooms, where they remain hanging for several days till they become frozen solid. Two
refrigerating machines, placed in another building, produce the low temperature which freezes this dead
meat. The machines are of the De La Vergne type.
Each machine consists of two compressors, 18x36 inches, driven by a HarrisCorliss engine, 32x36 inches.
These machines, combined, are capable of producing refrigeration equal to the melting of 220 tons, of ice
every twenty-four hours. Ammonia gas is used to produce refrigeration, but the operation Is entirely
mechanical, and the gas has no more to do with of meat operated upon than the steam that runs a flour mill
has to do with the flour turned out. The same may be said for ether gas, which is used in some refrigerating
operations, and, along with ammonia, is made a bugbear by the enemies of dressed meat. The compressor
takes in anhydrous ammonia, and compresses the gas to a tension of 160 pounds to the square inch, which
liquifies the gas. This liquid is forced, while under compression, through a coil of pipes, over which cold
water continually runs, which abstracts the heat due to compressing. The liquid, thus cooled, is now wire
drawn, and permitted to expand through pipes coiled round the freezing rooms. The gas, previously in a
small volume, was robbed of its heat, and now, when it is expanded into a large space, the gas becomes
intensely cold, and the pipes assume a temperature about the same as the gas inside. By this means the
cold pipes reduce the temperature of the air in the room to whatever point is needed for the process of
refrigeration. As the gas gets warmed in keeping down the temperature of its surroundings, it is drawn off, to
be again compressed, and a newly-cooled supply passed into the pipes; so the cycle of refrigerating work is
kept going.
Part of these refrigerating works is cooled ly a brine mixture which keeps liquid below the freezing point, and
is run through the pipes in the freezing rooms. This brine is
a most expensive and troublesome way of
getting the work done. ', We have tried the
best stove arrangements—or, at least, those !,
that have been most industriously advertised
as perfect—and we found them but little
better than the furnace. The ordinary sand
drying furnaces and stoves in use are made
to dry sand, but we do not know of any
industrial operation where so much coal is
consumed for such a small return in use-
fulness.
In another column Mr. Crowley describes
an appliance which he put up fon drying
sand, which we consider ,to be a step in the
right direction, and which is worthy of the
attention of those interested in this subject. .
The device consists of an arrangement of
steam pipes, which dry the sand and permit
it to drop away from contact so soon as the tS;
moisture is extracted. If we mistake not, a
similar device is in use at the Chicago, Bur-
lington a.Quincy Railroad shops at Aurora,
Ill., and gives perfect satisfaction. We think
it would pay a manufacturer to put a dryer
of this kind upon the market. An arrange-
ment of pipes could be made and provided
with the means of returning the condensed
water back to the boiler, by that means
saving fuel. We are certain that no railroad
company could afford to be without a sand
dryer of this kind, if it were got out at a
moderate expense. Meanwhile, we commend
the description of the pipe sand dryer to the
attention of master mechanics.
American Water-Works Association.
In last week's issue we referred briefly to the report of this association, closing our reference with a
suggestion of the advisability of the association paying attention to the tests of water-works machinery. Since
then we have received a communication from the secretary, J. G. Briggs, of Terre Haute, Ind., inclosing a
blank, from which we extract the following:
To the Members of the Am, rican Water- Works Association and others interested in Steam Coals.
GENTLEMxx : The arduous duty of ascertaining the relative value of all the different kinds of coal in use
throughout the country (in connection with a proposed system of keeping records and making annual
reports) was assigned to a committee at our last convention. In order to compile a statement that will be
nuvncr rirlr. —norm vwr nu.&e - ra upvi'Livu-
ing Slide Valves and Determining Effect of
DifferentProportions .......................... 6, 7
The Philadelphia Electrical Exhibition......... 7
Warner & Swasey's Method of Sizing Gear
Wheels.: ....: .......................... 7
National Convention of Fire .Engineers......... 7
Hydraulic Distribution of Power .............. . 7
A Manufacturing Corporation's Objections to
TradeCombinations ................... . 8
TheSize of the Apple Barrel .................... 8
Mechanic0,1 Refrigeration ...................... S
Sand Dryers for Locomotives ............ ...... 8
American Water Works Association............ 8
Questions and Answers........
Manufactures........' ....................... 9
Machinists'' Supplies and Iron ................... 10
AUGUST 30, 1884] AMERICAN MACHINIST 9
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accurate and reliable (and which will be of much value, not only to the association, but to manufacturers
and users of steam machinery), it is requisite that we have the hearty co-operation of all interested, and
the results of any previous tests, either positive or comparative, with as much data as possible, are
earnestly solicited. All waterworks managers are especially requested to make what tests of the kind they
can, and forward the same to either member of the committee before March 1st, 1885, as per
accompanying blank. You will please bear in mind that as the report of this committee (if satisfactory) will
be adopted by the association, and declared the official standard for all future duty tests, it is necessary it
should be as full, accurate and reliable as possible.
Additional blanks will be furnished upon application to either member of the committee.
Very respectfully,
J. G. Binaas,
Chairman of Committee.
As Mr. Briggs suggests, if sufficient statistics can be obtained, the matter will be of general value to
manufacturers and users of steam machinery, giving them approximate knowledge of the comparative
thermal value of coal in various localities, and an idea of the best kind of boilers and boiler setting for
these localities. The blanks referred to cover all ordinary dimensions, as well as manner of supplying
water to boiler, and the data necessary to form conclusions from boiler tests. We hope the members of
the association will take such, an interest in the matter as will make these tests the most valuable of the
kind yet furnished.
Having heard reports of the serious illness of Mr. Alexander Gordon, general manager of the Niles Tool
Works, Hamilton, 0., and having had inquiries in reference to same, we made inquiry as to the truth of
these reports. Mr. McKinney, secretary of the works, informs us that the reports are very much
exaggerated. He writes us: "Mr. Gordon is not at all well, and is now seek-
ing much-needed rest in Europe, hoping
fully to regain his health. For several years he has closely applied himself to his business, and requires
the rest and relaxation he is now taking. He has been at Carlsbad, and is now at Creiff, Scotland. I le
expects to return in October, and will then, no doubt, once more make a full hand at the business."
(333) W. S. 13., Baltimore, Md., asks: Will you please give me your opinion of the horsepower of an engine
of the following dimensions, and under the following conditions: Cylinder 12"x20, revolutions 100, steam
pressure 80 lbs , steam pipe 3° diameter, 20 ft. long with two elbows, exhaust pipe 3yz", one elbow, slide
valve cutting off at Y4 stroke? I mean the maximum horse-power. A.—With well-proportioned valve and
valve motion, probably about 75-horse power.
(334) W. S. H., Morgantown, W. Va., writes: I am building an engine 5"x7", to run 250 revolutions. I want to
ask: 1. The steam ports are 2"x34", exhaust port 2"xY4". Are they proportioned right? A.—We should much
prefer steam ports 4"x%", exhaust port 4"xY4" 2. What should be the size of steam and exhaust. pipe? A. If
short and direct, steam pipe i4". exhaust pipe OW' will answer. 3. What will be the horse-power of such an
engine with 60 lbs. boiler pressure? A.—About six-horse power.
(335) Inquirer, Bellwood, W. Va., asks:
Can you inform me of any method by which I can learn telegraphy without going into an office? I am
engaged in a store, and during dull days would like to put in my time in learning something. A.—We know
of only two ways of learning telegraphy. One— and the best—is in an office, and the other by attending a
school where telegraphy is taught. If you have your evenings to yourself, perhaps you might make
arrangements for instruction by the operator in the office in the place in which you live.
(336) H. S., Providence, R. I., asks: 1. What is the horse-power of a vertical boiler of the following
dimensions: Diameter 72", height 14 feet, diameter of fire-box 5312 feet, height of fire-box 4 feet, number
of tubes 155, diameter of tubes 2" length of tubes 10 feet? I make the horse-power 85 or 90 A —We make
the heating surface of this boiler, approximately, 820 feet. Barr, in his work on steam boilers, makes 12
feet heating surface equal a horse-power in vertical boilers. From this rating the boiler would be 68-horse
power. This rating is, however, for an ordinary engine. With some of the best engines, undoubtedly the
boiler could be worked to or beyond 100-horse power. 2. What would be a safe working pressure for such
a boiler, the shell being %" best flange icon, tensile strength 50,000 lbs.? A. According to the authority
previously quoted, the safe working pressure of a single-riveted shell 72" diameter, %" iron, tensile
strength 50,000 lbs. is 87 lbs. This allows a factor of safety of 6. For double-riveted shell 104 lbs., 20 per
cent, being added for double riveting.
(337) R. C., Hamilton, Ont., writes: I am building a portable engine, 7"x10". to run 200 to 240 revolutions. 1.
What should be the size of admisslon and exhaust ports, what the width of bridges, what hit) should the
valve have, what lend, what
Nhnuld be the width of exhaust cavity In valve?
A Very good proportions would hc: Steam ports li"xryt', exhaust poll, IWxI 4'', bridges %11 steal lap
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to send to the Straight-Line Engine Company, Syracuse, N. Y., for their new catalogue.
EXTRACTS FROM CHORDAL'S LETTERS, 400 pages, l2mo., handsomely hound in cloth. New and
enlarged edition, with over 50 illustrations. Price $2. Published by John Wiley & Sons, 15 Astor place, New
York.
A mtu,hlno shop Is to be ((ruched at Reynoldsvllle, I'll,, by Ohorles II irpel, of Plttshurgh.
R. J. Steel, Petersburg, Va., writes us: Work in the iron business, at this time, down here, is very dull, and if
there 1, not a change somewhere, I don't know what will become of the mechanics.
The Co-operative Foundry and Stove Works have been incorporated in West Virginia, by August Kirke, J. S.
Godfrey, Thomas Kirwan, Henry Moetsen and Frederick Schmidt, of Martin's Ferry, 0.
The Eureka Screw, Bolt, and Nut Manufacturing Company is the name of a corporation recently chartered
at Alexandria, Va., for the purpose of manufacturing threaded bolts, under the Cochrane patents, by rolling
the screw threads on the bolts while the blanks are red hot.
Walter Scott & Co., Plainfield, N.J., write us: Our buildings are nearly finished. We are at present placing
boilers, engine bed, and tool foundation; shafting will be in place in two weeks, and we expect to apply
power and start pattern making in about one month. Machine and foundry work will not begin for, say,
three months.
The pair of Davidson pumping engines put in about two months ago, at the village of Catskill, N.Y, are
pumping 25 per cent, in excess of the guaranteed capacity, obtaining an economic, duty of 69,000,000 lbs.
feet. Pending the completion of the reservoir,the engines have been pumping direct into the mains, at a
pressure varying from 115 to 130 lbs. at pump.
The Almond Angular Coupling, illustrated in the AMERICAN MAornmsr, November 24,1883, is meeting
with very good success in this country. The in-
ventor, Thomas R. Almond, 84 Pearl street, Brooklyn, N. Y., has just completed arrangements with a
prominent English firm, Cayley & Cayley, of London, by which they will at once proceed to manufacture the
coupling, and place it on the British market.
It seems manufacturing companies are beginning to take pattern after railroad companies. A meeting of
the stockholders of the Harrison Wire Company, of St. Louis, has been called for September 25th, to vote
on a proposition to increase the bonded indebtedness of the company from the present amount,
$150,000, to $250,000 Of course, in time, we may expect to see manufacturing companies issue three or
four varieties of "first mortgage" bonds, second mortgage bonds, and income bonds.
Mr. C. A. Leib, 23 Vandewater street, New York, is building a novel lap-polishing machine of his own
invention. It is a flat disk, 25 inches diameter, made of a composition of copper, tin and antimony. The disk
is mounted on top of a vertical stem, and it revolves on a horizontal plane. Fine emery is
rolled into the surface of the disk, and the soft
metal appears to absorb a portion of the emery. The flat revolving surface provides excellent means of
polishing fine machine work. Mr. Leib is quite busy with printers' material.
An effort is being made to secure some manufacturing enterprise for Damariscotta, Me. It proposed to
raise by subscription among Damariscotta
.nanln the anm of air (inn rip +hnnn,ih,,,,tr .,;Fx
top pg 9 bottom
Gordon is not at all well, and is now seek-
ing much-needed rest in Europe, hoping
fully to regain his health. For several years he has closely applied himself to his business, and requires
the rest and relaxation he is now taking. He has been at Carlsbad, and is now at Creiff,,Scotland, IW f
peotl t'o return in October, and will then, no doubt, once more make a full bpnd it the business."
In Letters from Practical Men, this week, Prof. Sweet continues the subject of proportioning slide valves.
The matter is put by him in an extremely simple form, and we recommend these articles to all who are
interested in the subject. With practical men the graphic method employed will always be popular, and, all
things considered, mistakes are less likely to occur in the use of this method than in mathematical
demonstration.
We would call attention to the fact, that
the subscription price of Descriptive Amen-ca, the new geographical and industrial magazine, recently
started by George H. Adams & Son, 59 Beekman street, New York, and noticed by us some time since,
has been changed, since the first number was issued, to $5.00 a year. The price per single copy, 50
cents, remains unchanged.
~I~~~ App
ICE
J1151JJERS.~
Vnder this head we propose to answer questions sent us, pertaining to our specialty, correctly, and
according
to common sense methods.
Every question, to insure any attention, must invariably be accompanied by the writer's name and address.
If so requested, neither name, correct initials, nor location will be published
(331) S. M., Philadelphia, Pa., asks: In the article by John E. Sweet, on proportioning valves, in the
AmmnrcAN MACHINIST of August 16, be says strike a circle equal to the travel of the valve. Does be mean
that the diameter of circle or its radius shall be equal to the travel of valve? A.—Its diameter.
(332) J. W. E., Chillicothe, 0., asks: What is the best mixture for a locomotive bell, and what is the usual
weight? A.—The usual weight is from 80 to 90 pounds. A common mixture is 4 parts of copper to 1 part of
tin, to which is added 17 oz. antimony, 4 oz. zinc, and, in some instances, two parts of lead.smge-rivetea
sne i'or' wamecer, gyp" :ron, rensne
strength 50,000 lbs. is S71bs. This alldws a factor pages, l2mo., handsomely bound in cloth. New and
enlarged edition, with over 50 illustrations. Price $2.
of safety of 6. For double-riveted shell 104 lbs., 20 Published by John Wiley & Sons, 15 Astor place, per
cent, being added for double riveting. New York.
(337) R. C., Hamilton, Ont., writes: I am building a portable engine, 7"xIV1. to run 200 to 240 --° —
revolutions. 3. What should be the size of admission and exhlust ports, what the width of bridges, what)ap
shouild, the valve have, what lead, what
should he the width of exhaust cavity In Valve t A maohlue shop ie to be erected at e,
Reynoldsvill
d.—Very good proportions would be': Steam ports Pa., Charles 8arpoly be Pittsburgh. 6""xqt' , exhaust port
6"z1°, bridges %I, steam lap
9.16" exhaust lap %I', lead i-92", travel of valve The shops of the new Chesapeake and Nashville 2k".
These proportions will fix the other dimes. Railroad will, It is stated, be located at Nashville, ions asked
about. 2. What should be the dimen- Tenn.
sions of steam chest? A.—Make steam chest suf- The Catawba Oil Mill, at Chester, S. C., Is to be ficiently
large to take the valve, and provide for enlarged for the purpose of placing more machinery the travel
without danger of striking, and to pro- John J. Briefly is building a two-story brick vide room for steam to get
to each port without workshop on Second avenue, near 64th street, New being obstructed. 3. What
thickness should the York.
piston-head be, and what the size of rings? A.
Piston 3" deep will answer very well. You will Tobin, Rambler & Co. are making a $3,000 addihave to
determine for yourself what kind of piston tion to their foundry building, at 869 Halsted street, packing to
use. For small pistons a very common Chicago, I11.
packing is cast-iron-rings, about 9¢" wide and Y4" Holmes & Robbins, Gardiner, Me., have engaged thick,
turned about %"larger than piston. Apiece in the manufacture of steam boilers—anew industry is out out of
the rings and they are sprung over the in that town.
piston and Into grooves turned in the latter. 3, The estate of D. K. Decker is erecting, at 20 and What would
be the horse-power of the engine with 22 Bergen street, Brooklyn,N. Y, a four-story brick 80 lbs steam? A.
—At 240 revolutions, from 12 to 15- manufactory, to cost $8,400.
horse power.
J, N. Patterson Is contractog for erection of a
(338) 0. S., Knoxville, Tenn., asks: 1: three-story factory, 80 by 32 feet, on Point street: We have a
countershaft running 90 revolutions, near Gunn avenue, Philadelphia.
driven by miter gears 12" diameter.' Can we take The New York Central Railroad Company is build-off one
of these gears and put on another, so as to ing a one-story brick blacksmith shop, 25 by 40 feet, rnnthe
countershaft 100 revolutions? A.—No; you In the rear of the Grand Central depot, New York.
will have to change both wheels. 2. My engine has The Eldridge Sewing Machine Company, Chico- a
riding out-off. At what point in the stroke shall pee, Mass., after a suspension of fourteen or fifteen I out off
to get best results? The engine Is 12"x24", weeks, has started up its works and is considerably running
120 revolutions.. A.—With steam pressure behind its orders.
from 60 to 80 lbs., cut-off at Y4 stroke, if. you can do
the work there. 3.—Is it Injurious to a boiler to Leopold Kaufman, 129 East 60th street, New York, feed at
the top Instead of the bottom of boiler? Is building a six-story brick factory, 47 by 125 feet, A.—In many
instances boilers are fed only a little on First avenue, corner 33d street, New York, to below the water
surface, and by many engineers cost $70,000.
this is believed to be the best place for the feed. H. B. Scholes, 111 Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, 4. Will
steam running through the cylinder of a N. Y., is erecting a two-story brick factory on steam engine in cold
weather, that is, with the Hewes street, near Broadway, that city, 64x64 feet, throttle-valve just a trifle open
at night, out the to cost $6,000.
rings? Would it be best to put a stop-valve close James Beggs & Co • 9 Dey street, have taken the to the
boiler? A: It is best to have a stop-valve at New York City agency for the Valley Machine Com-
boiler. A little steam let through the cylinder
boy r little g Y may pony's direct-acting steam pump, and are having a
not cut the rings, but will be liable to corrode some good trade in them.
of the parts. We should not let any steam through Charles Schildwachter will shortly commence the the
cylinder at night, unless it was absolutely nec- erection of a four-story carriage and wagon factory, essary
to keep from freezing. If your stop-valve at on 125th street, near Lexington avenue, New York, boiler is quite
tight there will be no water in the to cost about $16,000.
cylinder to freeze. A small drip-valve in the steam
pipe, between the stop-valve at boiler and the The Tricycle Manufacturing Company, Springthrottle-valve,
may sometimes be put In so that left field, 0, are completing a three-story addition to open it will drain out
any water that passes the their works, 150x48 feet. They will place new mastop-valve. You must me your
judgment In the chinery In the part added.
matter, the point being either to keep water out of The Bethlehem(Pa.) Iron Company,which recently the
cylinder, which is the proper plan, or failing to made a reduction of twenty per cent. in wages, has do this,
keep the cylinder so warm that It will not followed it by a like reduction in the rent of tenefreeze. ment
houses to its employes.
made of a composition of copper, tin and antimony. The disk is mounted on top of a vertical stem, and it
revolves on a horizontal plane. Fine emery is rolled into the surface of the disk, and the soft metal appears
to absorb a portion of the emery. The flat revolving surface provides excellent means of polishing fine
machine work. Mr. Leib is quite busy with printers' material.
An effort is being made to secure some manufacturing enterprise for Damariscotta, Me. It proposed to
raise by subscription among Damariscotta people the sum. of $15,000, or thereabouts, with which to
build a factory for the manufacture of shoes, the factory to be provided with an engine and boiler, and to be
large enough to employ two hundred or more hands. This building will be let to such party or parties as
will come into town and run a shoe factory, said parties to pay a rental on the building equal to five per
cent, of its cost, and be exempt from taxation for a term of years.—Mining and Industrial Journal.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin says: New iron works have just been built and opened by Rawson &
Morrison, on Main street, Cambridgeport, Mass., just across the West Boston Bridge. Mr. George W.
Rawson, formerly of Rawson & Hittinger, has been for the past sqyen~years with Kendall & Roberts as
superintendent and designer. The new shop is 125x42 feet, two stories high, and is stocked with twelve
lathes, four drills from P. Blaisdell & Co., of Worcester, five planers, punches, presses, and hammer, for
the manufacture of stationlry, ma- rin portable hoisting and ship engines, u '
e, po R p R ,hydra he presses, stone crushers, shafting, marine{ boilers, tanks, etc. They will make a
specialty of the Rawson patent fertilizer. Mr. George Worthin, who has been with Mr. Rawson for twenty-two
years, has been secured as foreman of the machine shop.
Lowe & Watson, proprietors of the Bridgeport Boiler Works, Bridgeport, Conn., report their business
improving, they having received a number of unexpected orders, amongst which may be mentioned
orders for four Lowe boilers, among them one of 50-horse power for Warner Brothers of that city, to
increase the boiler capacity in their largely-increased factory buildings. This is their third order for Lowe
boilers since they commenced business there. Their orders include one of 70-horse power for the new
factory of the Cowles Hardware'' Company now building in Bridgeport, and a pair of 100-horse power each
for the New York Belting and
k' Company'sanne fa r a
Packing annex factory at Passaic, N.J., which is their fifth order for Lowe boilers in twelve years. This pair
of boilers will be made entirely of Benzon steel plates, and are guaranteed to stand a working pressure of
100 lbs. during their reasonable life. The first two mentioned will be fitted with the improved steam
superheating drum, and all four will be fitted with the improved front and furnace. Lowe & Watson
commenced to build steel boilers fourteen years ago long before there was
much talk of, or business in, steel boilers, and their success with steel plates has been so satisfactory
that they now use them in all boilers they make,
for the furnaces, combustion chambers, and bottom 1. plates over the furnaces.
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accurate and reliable (and which will be of much value, not only to the association, but to manufacturers
and users of steam machinery), it is requisite that we have the hearty co-operation of all interested, and
the results of any previous tests, either positive or comparative, with as much data as possible, are
earnestly solicited. All waterworks managers are especially requested to make what tests of the kind they
can, and forward the same to either member of the committee before March 1st, 1885, as per
accompanying blank. You will please bear in mind that as the report of this committee (if satisfactory) will
be adopted by the association, and declared the official standard for all future duty tests, it is necessary it
should be as full, accurate and reliable as possible.
Additional blanks will be furnished upon application to either member of the committee.
Very respectfully,
J. G. Binaas,
Chairman of Committee.
As Mr. Briggs suggests, if sufficient statistics can be obtained, the matter will be of general value to
manufacturers and users of steam machinery, giving them approximate knowledge of the comparative
thermal value of coal in various localities, and an idea of the best kind of boilers and boiler setting for
these localities. The blanks referred to cover all ordinary dimensions, as well as manner of supplying
water to boiler, and the data necessary to form conclusions from boiler tests. We hope the members of
the association will take such, an interest in the matter as will make these tests the most valuable of the
kind yet furnished.
Having heard reports of the serious illness of Mr. Alexander Gordon, general manager of the Niles Tool
Works, Hamilton, 0., and having had inquiries in reference to same, we made inquiry as to the truth of
these reports. Mr. McKinney, secretary of the works, informs us that the reports are very much
exaggerated. He writes us: "Mr. Gordon is not at all well, and is now seek-
ing much-needed rest in Europe, hoping
fully to regain his health. For several years he has closely applied himself to his business, and requires
the rest and relaxation he is now taking. He has been at Carlsbad, and is now at Creiff, Scotland. I le
expects to return in October, and will then, no doubt, once more make a full hand at the business."
(333) W. S. 13., Baltimore, Md., asks: Will you please give me your opinion of the horsepower of an engine
of the following dimensions, and under the following conditions: Cylinder 12"x20, revolutions 100, steam
pressure 80 lbs , steam pipe 3° diameter, 20 ft. long with two elbows, exhaust pipe 3yz", one elbow, slide
valve cutting off at Y4 stroke? I mean the maximum horse-power. A.—With well-proportioned valve and
valve motion, probably about 75-horse power.
(334) W. S. H., Morgantown, W. Va., writes: I am building an engine 5"x7", to run 250 revolutions. I want to
ask: 1. The steam ports are 2"x34", exhaust port 2"xY4". Are they proportioned right? A.—We should much
prefer steam ports 4"x%", exhaust port 4"xY4" 2. What should be the size of steam and exhaust. pipe? A. If
short and direct, steam pipe i4". exhaust pipe OW' will answer. 3. What will be the horse-power of such an
engine with 60 lbs. boiler pressure? A.—About six-horse power.
(335) Inquirer, Bellwood, W. Va., asks:
Can you inform me of any method by which I can learn telegraphy without going into an office? I am
engaged in a store, and during dull days would like to put in my time in learning something. A.—We know
of only two ways of learning telegraphy. One— and the best—is in an office, and the other by attending a
school where telegraphy is taught. If you have your evenings to yourself, perhaps you might make
arrangements for instruction by the operator in the office in the place in which you live.
(336) H. S., Providence, R. I., asks: 1. What is the horse-power of a vertical boiler of the following
dimensions: Diameter 72", height 14 feet, diameter of fire-box 5312 feet, height of fire-box 4 feet, number
of tubes 155, diameter of tubes 2" length of tubes 10 feet? I make the horse-power 85 or 90 A —We make
the heating surface of this boiler, approximately, 820 feet. Barr, in his work on steam boilers, makes 12
feet heating surface equal a horse-power in vertical boilers. From this rating the boiler would be 68-horse
power. This rating is, however, for an ordinary engine. With some of the best engines, undoubtedly the
boiler could be worked to or beyond 100-horse power. 2. What would be a safe working pressure for such
a boiler, the shell being %" best flange icon, tensile strength 50,000 lbs.? A. According to the authority
previously quoted, the safe working pressure of a single-riveted shell 72" diameter, %" iron, tensile
strength 50,000 lbs. is 87 lbs. This allows a factor of safety of 6. For double-riveted shell 104 lbs., 20 per
cent, being added for double riveting.
(337) R. C., Hamilton, Ont., writes: I am building a portable engine, 7"x10". to run 200 to 240 revolutions. 1.
What should be the size of admisslon and exhaust ports, what the width of bridges, what hit) should the
valve have, what lend, what
Nhnuld be the width of exhaust cavity In valve?
A Very good proportions would hc: Steam ports li"xryt', exhaust poll, IWxI 4'', bridges %11 steal lap
0%~7~ffl ECIRLS
Transient Adsertiaemente, 50 cis. a line for each insrtlon under this head. About seven words make a line.
Copy should be seat to reach us not later than Wednesday for the ensuing week's issue.
Curtis pressure regulator and st'ra trap. Aug.23,p.14. Mackenzie Cupolas and Blowers. 245 Broadway, N.
Y. Presses & Dies, Ferracute Mach. Co.,Bridgeton,N. J. Steel Name Stamps, &c J.B. Roney, Lynn, Mass.
Rotary Files, Tower M. Works, E. Brookfield, Mass. "How to Keep Boilers Clean." A book mailed
free, by James E. Hotchkiss, 86 John street, N. Y. Crists' high-speed compound engines. Crist Engine
Works, 182 Centre st., N. Y. Send for circular. Herbert W. T. Jenner, Mechanical Engineer and Solicitor of
Patents, 632 F at., Washington, D. C. Lyman's Gear Chart. How to lay out gear teeth. Price 50 cents. E.
Lyman, C. E., New Haven, Conn. Foot Power Maehinery,for workshop use,sent on trial if desired. W.F. &
John Barnes, Rockford, Ill The latest Improved Tack and Match Machinery. is made by White Machine Co.,
Waterbury, Conn. Pattern and Brand Letters. Vanderburgh, Wells & Co., corner Fulton and Dutch streets,
New York. Universal grinders for lathe-centers, chucks, angles,oreylinders. C. C. Hill, 84 Market st.,
Chicagolll, R. Dudgeon, 24 Columbia st., New York, Improved Hydraulic Jacks and Roller Tube
Expanders. National and box chucks, foot and power lathes, and slide rests. Lodge, Barker& Co.,
Cincinnati, 0. DRAWINGS—Mechanical, electrical and Patent Office. All styles of artistic designing. Special
facilities. Lowrates. Wallace Metealf,140Nassau St.,N.Y. Guild & Garrison's Steam Pump Works, Brooklyn,
N Y. Steam Pumping Machinery of every de-
scription..Send for catalogue.
Improved Tack Machinery, made by The Willets Man'f'g Co., can be seen in operation at their works, 57
Clifford St., Providence, R. I.
The "Wax Process" Engravings shown in the AMERICAN MACHINIST each week are made by Struthers,
Servoss & Co., 32 Frankfort Street, N. Y.
Engine Lathes, Hand Lathes, and other fine tools. Assortment large: prices low. Frasse & Co., f2
Chatham St., N. Y.
The Complete Practical Machinist, $2 50; the Pattern Maker's Assistant, $2.50; Mechanical Drawing Self-
taught, $4 00; books for practical machinists. Address, Joshua Rose, Box 3,306, New York City.
Steam users, expecting to put in a first-class eneine, from 10 to 60-horse power, will find it to their interest
to send to the Straight-Line Engine Company, Syracuse, N. Y., for their new catalogue.
EXTRACTS FROM CHORDAL'S LETTERS, 400 pages, l2mo., handsomely hound in cloth. New and
enlarged edition, with over 50 illustrations. Price $2. Published by John Wiley & Sons, 15 Astor place, New
York.
A mtu,hlno shop Is to be ((ruched at Reynoldsvllle, I'll,, by Ohorles II irpel, of Plttshurgh.
R. J. Steel, Petersburg, Va., writes us: Work in the iron business, at this time, down here, is very dull, and if
there 1, not a change somewhere, I don't know what will become of the mechanics.
The Co-operative Foundry and Stove Works have been incorporated in West Virginia, by August Kirke, J. S.
Godfrey, Thomas Kirwan, Henry Moetsen and Frederick Schmidt, of Martin's Ferry, 0.
The Eureka Screw, Bolt, and Nut Manufacturing Company is the name of a corporation recently chartered
at Alexandria, Va., for the purpose of manufacturing threaded bolts, under the Cochrane patents, by rolling
the screw threads on the bolts while the blanks are red hot.
Walter Scott & Co., Plainfield, N.J., write us: Our buildings are nearly finished. We are at present placing
boilers, engine bed, and tool foundation; shafting will be in place in two weeks, and we expect to apply
power and start pattern making in about one month. Machine and foundry work will not begin for, say,
three months.
The pair of Davidson pumping engines put in about two months ago, at the village of Catskill, N.Y, are
pumping 25 per cent, in excess of the guaranteed capacity, obtaining an economic, duty of 69,000,000 lbs.
feet. Pending the completion of the reservoir,the engines have been pumping direct into the mains, at a
pressure varying from 115 to 130 lbs. at pump.
The Almond Angular Coupling, illustrated in the AMERICAN MAornmsr, November 24,1883, is meeting
with very good success in this country. The in-
ventor, Thomas R. Almond, 84 Pearl street, Brooklyn, N. Y., has just completed arrangements with a
prominent English firm, Cayley & Cayley, of London, by which they will at once proceed to manufacture the
coupling, and place it on the British market.
It seems manufacturing companies are beginning to take pattern after railroad companies. A meeting of
the stockholders of the Harrison Wire Company, of St. Louis, has been called for September 25th, to vote
on a proposition to increase the bonded indebtedness of the company from the present amount,
$150,000, to $250,000 Of course, in time, we may expect to see manufacturing companies issue three or
four varieties of "first mortgage" bonds, second mortgage bonds, and income bonds.
Mr. C. A. Leib, 23 Vandewater street, New York, is building a novel lap-polishing machine of his own
invention. It is a flat disk, 25 inches diameter, made of a composition of copper, tin and antimony. The disk
is mounted on top of a vertical stem, and it revolves on a horizontal plane. Fine emery is
rolled into the surface of the disk, and the soft
metal appears to absorb a portion of the emery. The flat revolving surface provides excellent means of
polishing fine machine work. Mr. Leib is quite busy with printers' material.
An effort is being made to secure some manufacturing enterprise for Damariscotta, Me. It proposed to
raise by subscription among Damariscotta
.nanln the anm of air (inn rip +hnnn,ih,,,,tr .,;Fx
top pg 9 bottom
Gordon is not at all well, and is now seek-
ing much-needed rest in Europe, hoping
fully to regain his health. For several years he has closely applied himself to his business, and requires
the rest and relaxation he is now taking. He has been at Carlsbad, and is now at Creiff,,Scotland, IW f
peotl t'o return in October, and will then, no doubt, once more make a full bpnd it the business."
In Letters from Practical Men, this week, Prof. Sweet continues the subject of proportioning slide valves.
The matter is put by him in an extremely simple form, and we recommend these articles to all who are
interested in the subject. With practical men the graphic method employed will always be popular, and, all
things considered, mistakes are less likely to occur in the use of this method than in mathematical
demonstration.
We would call attention to the fact, that
the subscription price of Descriptive Amen-ca, the new geographical and industrial magazine, recently
started by George H. Adams & Son, 59 Beekman street, New York, and noticed by us some time since,
has been changed, since the first number was issued, to $5.00 a year. The price per single copy, 50
cents, remains unchanged.
~I~~~ App
ICE
J1151JJERS.~
Vnder this head we propose to answer questions sent us, pertaining to our specialty, correctly, and
according
to common sense methods.
Every question, to insure any attention, must invariably be accompanied by the writer's name and address.
If so requested, neither name, correct initials, nor location will be published
(331) S. M., Philadelphia, Pa., asks: In the article by John E. Sweet, on proportioning valves, in the
AmmnrcAN MACHINIST of August 16, be says strike a circle equal to the travel of the valve. Does be mean
that the diameter of circle or its radius shall be equal to the travel of valve? A.—Its diameter.
(332) J. W. E., Chillicothe, 0., asks: What is the best mixture for a locomotive bell, and what is the usual
weight? A.—The usual weight is from 80 to 90 pounds. A common mixture is 4 parts of copper to 1 part of
tin, to which is added 17 oz. antimony, 4 oz. zinc, and, in some instances, two parts of lead.smge-rivetea
sne i'or' wamecer, gyp" :ron, rensne
strength 50,000 lbs. is S71bs. This alldws a factor pages, l2mo., handsomely bound in cloth. New and
enlarged edition, with over 50 illustrations. Price $2.
of safety of 6. For double-riveted shell 104 lbs., 20 Published by John Wiley & Sons, 15 Astor place, per
cent, being added for double riveting. New York.
(337) R. C., Hamilton, Ont., writes: I am building a portable engine, 7"xIV1. to run 200 to 240 --° —
revolutions. 3. What should be the size of admission and exhlust ports, what the width of bridges, what)ap
shouild, the valve have, what lead, what
should he the width of exhaust cavity In Valve t A maohlue shop ie to be erected at e,
Reynoldsvill
d.—Very good proportions would be': Steam ports Pa., Charles 8arpoly be Pittsburgh. 6""xqt' , exhaust port
6"z1°, bridges %I, steam lap
9.16" exhaust lap %I', lead i-92", travel of valve The shops of the new Chesapeake and Nashville 2k".
These proportions will fix the other dimes. Railroad will, It is stated, be located at Nashville, ions asked
about. 2. What should be the dimen- Tenn.
sions of steam chest? A.—Make steam chest suf- The Catawba Oil Mill, at Chester, S. C., Is to be ficiently
large to take the valve, and provide for enlarged for the purpose of placing more machinery the travel
without danger of striking, and to pro- John J. Briefly is building a two-story brick vide room for steam to get
to each port without workshop on Second avenue, near 64th street, New being obstructed. 3. What
thickness should the York.
piston-head be, and what the size of rings? A.
Piston 3" deep will answer very well. You will Tobin, Rambler & Co. are making a $3,000 addihave to
determine for yourself what kind of piston tion to their foundry building, at 869 Halsted street, packing to
use. For small pistons a very common Chicago, I11.
packing is cast-iron-rings, about 9¢" wide and Y4" Holmes & Robbins, Gardiner, Me., have engaged thick,
turned about %"larger than piston. Apiece in the manufacture of steam boilers—anew industry is out out of
the rings and they are sprung over the in that town.
piston and Into grooves turned in the latter. 3, The estate of D. K. Decker is erecting, at 20 and What would
be the horse-power of the engine with 22 Bergen street, Brooklyn,N. Y, a four-story brick 80 lbs steam? A.
—At 240 revolutions, from 12 to 15- manufactory, to cost $8,400.
horse power.
J, N. Patterson Is contractog for erection of a
(338) 0. S., Knoxville, Tenn., asks: 1: three-story factory, 80 by 32 feet, on Point street: We have a
countershaft running 90 revolutions, near Gunn avenue, Philadelphia.
driven by miter gears 12" diameter.' Can we take The New York Central Railroad Company is build-off one
of these gears and put on another, so as to ing a one-story brick blacksmith shop, 25 by 40 feet, rnnthe
countershaft 100 revolutions? A.—No; you In the rear of the Grand Central depot, New York.
will have to change both wheels. 2. My engine has The Eldridge Sewing Machine Company, Chico- a
riding out-off. At what point in the stroke shall pee, Mass., after a suspension of fourteen or fifteen I out off
to get best results? The engine Is 12"x24", weeks, has started up its works and is considerably running
120 revolutions.. A.—With steam pressure behind its orders.
from 60 to 80 lbs., cut-off at Y4 stroke, if. you can do
the work there. 3.—Is it Injurious to a boiler to Leopold Kaufman, 129 East 60th street, New York, feed at
the top Instead of the bottom of boiler? Is building a six-story brick factory, 47 by 125 feet, A.—In many
instances boilers are fed only a little on First avenue, corner 33d street, New York, to below the water
surface, and by many engineers cost $70,000.
this is believed to be the best place for the feed. H. B. Scholes, 111 Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, 4. Will
steam running through the cylinder of a N. Y., is erecting a two-story brick factory on steam engine in cold
weather, that is, with the Hewes street, near Broadway, that city, 64x64 feet, throttle-valve just a trifle open
at night, out the to cost $6,000.
rings? Would it be best to put a stop-valve close James Beggs & Co • 9 Dey street, have taken the to the
boiler? A: It is best to have a stop-valve at New York City agency for the Valley Machine Com-
boiler. A little steam let through the cylinder
boy r little g Y may pony's direct-acting steam pump, and are having a
not cut the rings, but will be liable to corrode some good trade in them.
of the parts. We should not let any steam through Charles Schildwachter will shortly commence the the
cylinder at night, unless it was absolutely nec- erection of a four-story carriage and wagon factory, essary
to keep from freezing. If your stop-valve at on 125th street, near Lexington avenue, New York, boiler is quite
tight there will be no water in the to cost about $16,000.
cylinder to freeze. A small drip-valve in the steam
pipe, between the stop-valve at boiler and the The Tricycle Manufacturing Company, Springthrottle-valve,
may sometimes be put In so that left field, 0, are completing a three-story addition to open it will drain out
any water that passes the their works, 150x48 feet. They will place new mastop-valve. You must me your
judgment In the chinery In the part added.
matter, the point being either to keep water out of The Bethlehem(Pa.) Iron Company,which recently the
cylinder, which is the proper plan, or failing to made a reduction of twenty per cent. in wages, has do this,
keep the cylinder so warm that It will not followed it by a like reduction in the rent of tenefreeze. ment
houses to its employes.
made of a composition of copper, tin and antimony. The disk is mounted on top of a vertical stem, and it
revolves on a horizontal plane. Fine emery is rolled into the surface of the disk, and the soft metal appears
to absorb a portion of the emery. The flat revolving surface provides excellent means of polishing fine
machine work. Mr. Leib is quite busy with printers' material.
An effort is being made to secure some manufacturing enterprise for Damariscotta, Me. It proposed to
raise by subscription among Damariscotta people the sum. of $15,000, or thereabouts, with which to
build a factory for the manufacture of shoes, the factory to be provided with an engine and boiler, and to be
large enough to employ two hundred or more hands. This building will be let to such party or parties as
will come into town and run a shoe factory, said parties to pay a rental on the building equal to five per
cent, of its cost, and be exempt from taxation for a term of years.—Mining and Industrial Journal.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin says: New iron works have just been built and opened by Rawson &
Morrison, on Main street, Cambridgeport, Mass., just across the West Boston Bridge. Mr. George W.
Rawson, formerly of Rawson & Hittinger, has been for the past sqyen~years with Kendall & Roberts as
superintendent and designer. The new shop is 125x42 feet, two stories high, and is stocked with twelve
lathes, four drills from P. Blaisdell & Co., of Worcester, five planers, punches, presses, and hammer, for
the manufacture of stationlry, ma- rin portable hoisting and ship engines, u '
e, po R p R ,hydra he presses, stone crushers, shafting, marine{ boilers, tanks, etc. They will make a
specialty of the Rawson patent fertilizer. Mr. George Worthin, who has been with Mr. Rawson for twenty-two
years, has been secured as foreman of the machine shop.
Lowe & Watson, proprietors of the Bridgeport Boiler Works, Bridgeport, Conn., report their business
improving, they having received a number of unexpected orders, amongst which may be mentioned
orders for four Lowe boilers, among them one of 50-horse power for Warner Brothers of that city, to
increase the boiler capacity in their largely-increased factory buildings. This is their third order for Lowe
boilers since they commenced business there. Their orders include one of 70-horse power for the new
factory of the Cowles Hardware'' Company now building in Bridgeport, and a pair of 100-horse power each
for the New York Belting and
k' Company'sanne fa r a
Packing annex factory at Passaic, N.J., which is their fifth order for Lowe boilers in twelve years. This pair
of boilers will be made entirely of Benzon steel plates, and are guaranteed to stand a working pressure of
100 lbs. during their reasonable life. The first two mentioned will be fitted with the improved steam
superheating drum, and all four will be fitted with the improved front and furnace. Lowe & Watson
commenced to build steel boilers fourteen years ago long before there was
much talk of, or business in, steel boilers, and their success with steel plates has been so satisfactory
that they now use them in all boilers they make,
for the furnaces, combustion chambers, and bottom 1. plates over the furnaces.
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AMEIBICAN MACHINIST [AUGUST 30,1884
HILL, CLARKE & CO.,
36 OLIVER ST., BOSTON, MASS.,
I'``I I I I
Branch Office and Storehouse, NEW YORK. BOSTON
800 N. 2nd ST., ST. LOUIS, M0. MANUFACTURE
ENGINES and BOILERS PUMPING
I MACHINERY
FOR ALL DUTIES.
TOOIs & S U i 1 LIES. Send for New Illustrated
Machinists' Supplies and Iron,
NEW YORK, August 14,1884. There has been no change in the condition of the supply trade worthy of
notice since our last report was made The same applies to steam supplies. Iron—A strong effort is being
made to close down. furnaces for a few weeks, to make a scarcity of pig iron and thereby bull prices. For
months there has been really no overproduction, but merely a supply enough to meet the demand. The
attempt at restriction is not to stop overproduction, but to make an artificial scarcity. So many conflicting
interests come into actiop before an agreement can be reached, in a matter of this kind, that it is very
doubtful if the stoppage will be tried. Prices of pig remain steady. No. I X Foundry is quoted at $19 to $19.50,
but slightly higher prices have been got for select brands. No. 2 X is held at $18 to $19; Grey Forge, $16 to
$17; with sales slow.
Copper—Ingot is unchanged, and no improvement
in the demand Small sales of Lake are reported at 14c., other brands 13e. to 13y2c.
Lead—The demand for common pig continues light. A few sales have been made at 3.60c.
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Wanted—First-class mechanic, on fine, light machinery, Joseph Boyer, St. Louis, Mo. Wanted—Permanent
situation, by a mechanical draughtsman. Reference given. Address"Square," care Ara. MACHINIST.
Any railroad or locomotive shop wanting an experienced machinist as foreman, can find one by addressing
"•S. W. Machinist," care Am. MACHINIST.
An experienced mechanical draughtsman, on general, special, and tool work, desires a position. Can
furnish references as to ability. Address Box 9,
AMERICAN MACHINIST.
Situation wanted by capable and experienced mechanical draftsman and machine designer. Over 30 years
experience in American and English shops. Salary moderate. Address "DESIGNER," AM. MACH,
Wanted—First-class draughtsman, with experience on machine tools and automatic machinery. Give
references and wages expected. Address S. W. Powel, care the Pratt & Whitney Company, h artford, Conn.
Wanted—A first-class foreman, for engine and jobbing shop, fifty miles from Pittsburgh, Pa., employing forty
hands, building steam engines and boilers and general jobbing. Address "Foreman
Machinist," AMERICAN MACHINIST, giving reference,
experience, and salary expected.
Small yacht and horizontal engine castings. Send stamp for price-list. J. L. Lucas, Waterbury, Conn.
Wanted—Second-hand iron planer, about 30"x20" by 8 feet, in first-class condition. State maker's name.
Address Am. Machine Works, Detroit, Mich.
For Sale—One Worthington Steam pump, nearly new, in perfect order size 4x2-x4, No. 13,349 Will be sold
low if applied for soon. Address Wm 13. Clapp, Weymouth, Mass.
Wanted—one live agent in every machine shop to sell Brown's patent shrinkage and internal gauge; a new
and useful tool for machinists. Address Barbour Brothers, Tarentum, Pa.
Wanted—Parties traveling and selling to steam' users, or dealing in mill supplies, to take the agency of a
good and fast selling article. Good induce' ments offered. Address "Manufacturer," care of
AM. MACHINIST.
TABLES OF SPEEDS
Send for Special Catalogues. Correspondence Solicited.
BRADLEY'S HEATING FORGES.
FOR HARD COAL OR COKE.
INDISPENSABLE IN ALL SHOPS to keep Bradley's Cushioned Hammers and men fully employed, and
reduce cost of production.
BRADLEY & CO., Syracuse, X. Y.
(ESTABLISHED 1832.)
The Sedgwick M'f'g Co., P —N. YEPSIE,
Catalogue.
FRICTION AND CUT-OFF COUPLINGS
JAS. HUNTER & SON, North Adams, Mass.
A. EDW. BARTHEL,
ENCINEER, ~w
ti i 111 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK. P. 0. BOX 2837.
SOLE MANUFACTURER OF 'Pill'
REISERT, STAUFFER AND BARTHEL
The most economical, perfect, Traetical, simplest, cheapest, and elegantly finished Lubricators ever
put on the market. One million sold within a couple of years. The Barthel Solidified Oil or Lubricating
Compound is used with the Lubricators exclusively. Whoever has once tried this Lubricant will never again
use oil or any other Lubricating compounds.
Send for Illustrated Catalogue.
. practical and Scientific invention for Beheatmg Exhaust, Superheating Live Steam or Heating Air, is' rrnolrr
Cosy, by utilizing the WASTE HEAT from Boller Furnaces. Can be attached to any boiler.
MANUFACTURED BY THE DONALDSON HEATER COMPANY,
No. 11 Si Broadway, New York.
d 0 PER CENT. SAVED
By using REHEATED EXHAUST STEA t, in place of Live Steam, for Heating Factories, Drying
,III Boorns, etc. SEND F012 OlFZOVLAR6- DEALERS COOKE & CO.,D
Machinery I Supplies, 22 CORTLANDT ST.,
page 10 bott & CO. machinery a Supplies,. 22 CORTLANDT ST., NL,W YORK.
AGENTS FOR THE
GrBefleld yerncal EHines,
23, to 30 Horse Power.
Unequaled in workmanship and quality of material. Prices lower than any other first-class engine.
ALSO SUPPLIES
For Machinists, Railways, Mills, Mines, &e.
Please send for circular and state that you saw the advertisement in this paper.
$FIND FOR OIROVLA R COOKE
MANUFACTURED BY THE DONALDSON HEATER COMPANY,
No. 1 S );roadway, New York.
Offices: BOSTON-220 Franklin Street. CIUICAGO-22S Lake Street.
STANDARD TOOL CO., Cleveland, Ohio, j'". AMa Manager. K, FACTORY: PROVIDENCE, R. 1.
Will'I Sold low It applied fot soon. Address Wm
1L Clapp, Weymoutli Mass.
Wanted—One live agent in every maehme shop to sell Brown's patent shrinkage and internalgauge; a new
and useful tool for machinists. Address Barbour Brothers, Tarentum, Pa.
Wanted—Parties traveling and selling to steam' users, or dealing in mill supplies, to take the agency of a
good and fast-selling article. Good induce, meats offered. Address `'Manufacturer," care oQ AM.
MAcu1N15T.
TABLES OF SPEEDS.
Tables of the principal speeds occurring in me• ohanical engineering, expressed in metres in A second. By
P. Keerayeff. Translated by Sergius
Kern. Price, 20 cents. Descriptive catalogue of books, 100 pages, free.
E. & '. N. SPON, 35 Murray Street, N. Y,
J.S.GRAHANI G$~HA1Vf JOHN KANE
TRADEs \MART SEND FOR `A FACTORY ST.
CATALOGUE. RICH ESTER, N.Y. North Attleboro, Mass., June 9,1884. T.ALMOND,
(Al Brooklyn, N. la
Dear Sir—The coupling ng (Almond's Angularr) is working A 1. We have had no trouble whatever, not even
so marl, as to lace the belt; the same belt before needed [aping twice a week. Have run every day, since
we put the coup- STEAM saiuotg. ling in, 10 to 12 hours. Have given it a good trial, and can not see
where it is the slightest worn.
W. H. WARD.
THE CL ~kl NEWAH H J
DESCRIPTIVE AMERICA.
For Sale everywhere by Newsdealers. Agents wanted in svery locality.
GEO. H. ADAMS & SON, Publishers,
6D BEEKMAN ST., NEW YORK.
New and Complete
FOR LAGGING STEAM ENGIN
CYLINDERS
Use FIREPROOF and INDESTRUCTIBLE
MINERAL WOOL.
Sample and Circular free by mail.
U.S. MINERAL WOOL CO., 22 Cortland St., N.Y.
PFORGES.
Send for Catalogue to
EMPIRE PORTABLE FORGE Co.,
COHOES. N. Y.
Illustrated Catalogue,
112 JOHN ST., NEW YORK.
Iuuoctors.
For supplying all classes of steam boilers with water.
We guarantee these Injectors to
be the best simp-
lest and on'y tho-
roughly reliable Boiler Feeders in the world,working
from 2 lbs. to 200
lbs. steam pressure.
HALL'S
Engineering
Co.,
A GEOGRAPHICAL AND INDUSTRIAL
MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
By an error in printing this advertisement last week, the subscription price of DascRrrrivE AMERICA, was
stated at $4.00 ayear, instead of $5.00, the correct amount, The price per single copy, 50 Cents, was
correctly stated.
Each Number contains a New Map of a State or Territory of the Union, together with fresh descriptive matter.
The Magazine is destined to occupy a wide and useful field.
JUST PUT3I ISI—IEIJ I
OF BLAKE'S — IMP OVEn STEAM
PUMPING MACHINERY.
SEND FOR A COPY.
Address, GEO. F. BLARE MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
9b & 97 LIBERTY STREET, 44 WASHINGTON STREET,
NEW YORK, BOSTON,
_4__' - S E1LEw
SECOND-HAND PLANING MACHINE,
To plane 50 inches wide, 46 inches high, and 28 ft. long; arranged to widen out to 70
inches. Ready for delivery Sept.1st, and until that time can be seen running in our works. This machine is in
good order, and will be sold at a bargain. Apply to
BETTS MACHINE CO., , WILMINGTON, DEL,
AMEIBICAN MACHINIST [AUGUST 30,1884
HILL, CLARKE & CO.,
36 OLIVER ST., BOSTON, MASS.,
I'``I I I I
Branch Office and Storehouse, NEW YORK. BOSTON
800 N. 2nd ST., ST. LOUIS, M0. MANUFACTURE
ENGINES and BOILERS PUMPING
I MACHINERY
FOR ALL DUTIES.
TOOIs & S U i 1 LIES. Send for New Illustrated
Machinists' Supplies and Iron,
NEW YORK, August 14,1884. There has been no change in the condition of the supply trade worthy of
notice since our last report was made The same applies to steam supplies. Iron—A strong effort is being
made to close down. furnaces for a few weeks, to make a scarcity of pig iron and thereby bull prices. For
months there has been really no overproduction, but merely a supply enough to meet the demand. The
attempt at restriction is not to stop overproduction, but to make an artificial scarcity. So many conflicting
interests come into actiop before an agreement can be reached, in a matter of this kind, that it is very
doubtful if the stoppage will be tried. Prices of pig remain steady. No. I X Foundry is quoted at $19 to $19.50,
but slightly higher prices have been got for select brands. No. 2 X is held at $18 to $19; Grey Forge, $16 to
$17; with sales slow.
Copper—Ingot is unchanged, and no improvement
in the demand Small sales of Lake are reported at 14c., other brands 13e. to 13y2c.
Lead—The demand for common pig continues light. A few sales have been made at 3.60c.
WAN TED
Situation and help" Advertisements, 36 cents a line for each insertion under this head. About seven words
make a line. Cagy should be sent to reach us not later than Wednesday mommy for the ensuing week's
issue.
Wanted—First-class mechanic, on fine, light machinery, Joseph Boyer, St. Louis, Mo. Wanted—Permanent
situation, by a mechanical draughtsman. Reference given. Address"Square," care Ara. MACHINIST.
Any railroad or locomotive shop wanting an experienced machinist as foreman, can find one by addressing
"•S. W. Machinist," care Am. MACHINIST.
An experienced mechanical draughtsman, on general, special, and tool work, desires a position. Can
furnish references as to ability. Address Box 9,
AMERICAN MACHINIST.
Situation wanted by capable and experienced mechanical draftsman and machine designer. Over 30 years
experience in American and English shops. Salary moderate. Address "DESIGNER," AM. MACH,
Wanted—First-class draughtsman, with experience on machine tools and automatic machinery. Give
references and wages expected. Address S. W. Powel, care the Pratt & Whitney Company, h artford, Conn.
Wanted—A first-class foreman, for engine and jobbing shop, fifty miles from Pittsburgh, Pa., employing forty
hands, building steam engines and boilers and general jobbing. Address "Foreman
Machinist," AMERICAN MACHINIST, giving reference,
experience, and salary expected.
Small yacht and horizontal engine castings. Send stamp for price-list. J. L. Lucas, Waterbury, Conn.
Wanted—Second-hand iron planer, about 30"x20" by 8 feet, in first-class condition. State maker's name.
Address Am. Machine Works, Detroit, Mich.
For Sale—One Worthington Steam pump, nearly new, in perfect order size 4x2-x4, No. 13,349 Will be sold
low if applied for soon. Address Wm 13. Clapp, Weymouth, Mass.
Wanted—one live agent in every machine shop to sell Brown's patent shrinkage and internal gauge; a new
and useful tool for machinists. Address Barbour Brothers, Tarentum, Pa.
Wanted—Parties traveling and selling to steam' users, or dealing in mill supplies, to take the agency of a
good and fast selling article. Good induce' ments offered. Address "Manufacturer," care of
AM. MACHINIST.
TABLES OF SPEEDS
Send for Special Catalogues. Correspondence Solicited.
BRADLEY'S HEATING FORGES.
FOR HARD COAL OR COKE.
INDISPENSABLE IN ALL SHOPS to keep Bradley's Cushioned Hammers and men fully employed, and
reduce cost of production.
BRADLEY & CO., Syracuse, X. Y.
(ESTABLISHED 1832.)
The Sedgwick M'f'g Co., P —N. YEPSIE,
Catalogue.
FRICTION AND CUT-OFF COUPLINGS
JAS. HUNTER & SON, North Adams, Mass.
A. EDW. BARTHEL,
ENCINEER, ~w
ti i 111 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK. P. 0. BOX 2837.
SOLE MANUFACTURER OF 'Pill'
REISERT, STAUFFER AND BARTHEL
The most economical, perfect, Traetical, simplest, cheapest, and elegantly finished Lubricators ever
put on the market. One million sold within a couple of years. The Barthel Solidified Oil or Lubricating
Compound is used with the Lubricators exclusively. Whoever has once tried this Lubricant will never again
use oil or any other Lubricating compounds.
Send for Illustrated Catalogue.
. practical and Scientific invention for Beheatmg Exhaust, Superheating Live Steam or Heating Air, is' rrnolrr
Cosy, by utilizing the WASTE HEAT from Boller Furnaces. Can be attached to any boiler.
MANUFACTURED BY THE DONALDSON HEATER COMPANY,
No. 11 Si Broadway, New York.
d 0 PER CENT. SAVED
By using REHEATED EXHAUST STEA t, in place of Live Steam, for Heating Factories, Drying
,III Boorns, etc. SEND F012 OlFZOVLAR6- DEALERS COOKE & CO.,D
Machinery I Supplies, 22 CORTLANDT ST.,
page 10 bott & CO. machinery a Supplies,. 22 CORTLANDT ST., NL,W YORK.
AGENTS FOR THE
GrBefleld yerncal EHines,
23, to 30 Horse Power.
Unequaled in workmanship and quality of material. Prices lower than any other first-class engine.
ALSO SUPPLIES
For Machinists, Railways, Mills, Mines, &e.
Please send for circular and state that you saw the advertisement in this paper.
$FIND FOR OIROVLA R COOKE
MANUFACTURED BY THE DONALDSON HEATER COMPANY,
No. 1 S );roadway, New York.
Offices: BOSTON-220 Franklin Street. CIUICAGO-22S Lake Street.
STANDARD TOOL CO., Cleveland, Ohio, j'". AMa Manager. K, FACTORY: PROVIDENCE, R. 1.
Will'I Sold low It applied fot soon. Address Wm
1L Clapp, Weymoutli Mass.
Wanted—One live agent in every maehme shop to sell Brown's patent shrinkage and internalgauge; a new
and useful tool for machinists. Address Barbour Brothers, Tarentum, Pa.
Wanted—Parties traveling and selling to steam' users, or dealing in mill supplies, to take the agency of a
good and fast-selling article. Good induce, meats offered. Address `'Manufacturer," care oQ AM.
MAcu1N15T.
TABLES OF SPEEDS.
Tables of the principal speeds occurring in me• ohanical engineering, expressed in metres in A second. By
P. Keerayeff. Translated by Sergius
Kern. Price, 20 cents. Descriptive catalogue of books, 100 pages, free.
E. & '. N. SPON, 35 Murray Street, N. Y,
J.S.GRAHANI G$~HA1Vf JOHN KANE
TRADEs \MART SEND FOR `A FACTORY ST.
CATALOGUE. RICH ESTER, N.Y. North Attleboro, Mass., June 9,1884. T.ALMOND,
(Al Brooklyn, N. la
Dear Sir—The coupling ng (Almond's Angularr) is working A 1. We have had no trouble whatever, not even
so marl, as to lace the belt; the same belt before needed [aping twice a week. Have run every day, since
we put the coup- STEAM saiuotg. ling in, 10 to 12 hours. Have given it a good trial, and can not see
where it is the slightest worn.
W. H. WARD.
THE CL ~kl NEWAH H J
DESCRIPTIVE AMERICA.
For Sale everywhere by Newsdealers. Agents wanted in svery locality.
GEO. H. ADAMS & SON, Publishers,
6D BEEKMAN ST., NEW YORK.
New and Complete
FOR LAGGING STEAM ENGIN
CYLINDERS
Use FIREPROOF and INDESTRUCTIBLE
MINERAL WOOL.
Sample and Circular free by mail.
U.S. MINERAL WOOL CO., 22 Cortland St., N.Y.
PFORGES.
Send for Catalogue to
EMPIRE PORTABLE FORGE Co.,
COHOES. N. Y.
Illustrated Catalogue,
112 JOHN ST., NEW YORK.
Iuuoctors.
For supplying all classes of steam boilers with water.
We guarantee these Injectors to
be the best simp-
lest and on'y tho-
roughly reliable Boiler Feeders in the world,working
from 2 lbs. to 200
lbs. steam pressure.
HALL'S
Engineering
Co.,
A GEOGRAPHICAL AND INDUSTRIAL
MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
By an error in printing this advertisement last week, the subscription price of DascRrrrivE AMERICA, was
stated at $4.00 ayear, instead of $5.00, the correct amount, The price per single copy, 50 Cents, was
correctly stated.
Each Number contains a New Map of a State or Territory of the Union, together with fresh descriptive matter.
The Magazine is destined to occupy a wide and useful field.
JUST PUT3I ISI—IEIJ I
OF BLAKE'S — IMP OVEn STEAM
PUMPING MACHINERY.
SEND FOR A COPY.
Address, GEO. F. BLARE MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
9b & 97 LIBERTY STREET, 44 WASHINGTON STREET,
NEW YORK, BOSTON,
_4__' - S E1LEw
SECOND-HAND PLANING MACHINE,
To plane 50 inches wide, 46 inches high, and 28 ft. long; arranged to widen out to 70
inches. Ready for delivery Sept.1st, and until that time can be seen running in our works. This machine is in
good order, and will be sold at a bargain. Apply to
BETTS MACHINE CO., , WILMINGTON, DEL,
