Novel Application of Water Power.

Cromwell Argus, Volume II, Issue 103, 31 October 1871, Page 2

Novel Application of Water Power.

0 Mr Moutray, of Nelson, has just constructed a novel and simple substitute for the smith's bellows. He provides a twelve gallon cask, which stands on one end. In the upper part lie inserts a two-inch pipe, about six inches long, having a funnel-top. In the bung-hole of the barrel is inserted another pipe, communictaing with the forge ; in the the bottom i 3 placed a small waste pipe •to cany off the water. At the mouth of the funnel is a small pipe with a nozzle l-Bth of an inch in diameter. This communicates with the water supply. A stream of water from this small opening flows rapidly into the funnel, and carries with it a considerable quantity of atmospheric air. This air cannot escape through the waste pipe at the bottom of the cask in consequence of the water which is itself being driven out. The air in the barrels becomes condensed, and escaping through the bung-hole pipe, blows the forgo lire with more regularity and vigor than any couple of pairs of the best blacksmith's bellows that ever were seen. The principle of the application is simplicity itself, and the result is most effective. It is literally blowing the Are with water, and making the water supply its own air.