UNLIMITED BOILING WATER FOR EVERY PURPOSE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2774, 18 May 1916, Page 3

UNLIMITED BOILING WATER FOR EVERY PURPOSE

A collection of labour-saving devices, which has been on show privately for some days past, in the old l'ru.it Jlurt ill Victoria Street, immediately behind the Hotel Windsor, is now open to the public from 10 to 12 110011 and 1 to 4.30 p.m.'daily, j Anyone requiring quantities of boiling ; water or low pressure steam for any pur- j pose whatever in privute house, hotel, lactory, or institution, will be well re- r paid by a visit to the interesting demonstration under the auspices of Jlessrs. 13. W. Milte and Co., Limited, given by the inventor of THE CHALLENGE STEAM BOILER AND WATER HEATER, Our reporter gleaned from hiin the following facts:— Some years ago I took up the agency ( of an American Washing Machiue, de- ( monstrating it throughout New Zealand i and Australia. Almost always tho de- ( nionstrations were delayed by tho old- j fashioned coppers failing to boil at the appointed time. The necessity for some l more rapid method of heating the water j was so forced upon me that-1 set to work 1 and soon succeeded in making a simple i water heater, which delivered twelve gal- 1 lons of boiling water ten minutes otter f the fire was lighted. Experimenting fur- i ther, I determined to maintain the water 1 at boiling point within the washing ma- 1 chines. This led to tho combined steam I and hot water apparatus - , which is the i basis of the many unique labour-saving and sanitary devices I am able to show i you to-day. * ] First let me explain the principle on 1 which it works. We have here a jacketed I steam boiler combined with a hot water i circulating cylinder. In the ordinary steam boiler, fuel and heat are wasted ' as the heat escapes through the up-take, and is lost in the atmosphere. In my in- ' vention this heat is captured by means of a circulating cylinder, with a flue • through the centre, placed immediately above the up-talce of tile steam boiler. The heat, after generating steam in the 1 jackoted boiler, heats the water in tho cylinder. From the jacketed boiler two pipes lead to a dome, situated immediately above the fire, thus acting as a baffle to tho flames, throwing them on to the wall of the cylinder, ftom the top of the steam dome runs a pipe in the . centre of the up-take of tho hot water cylinder, ensuring a super-heated steam. : Attached to the cylinder is a cistern, which automatically regulates the supply of water by means of a ball cock. Its action prevents water being drawn if the cylinder is not full, or if the main supply to the cylinder is cut off. The apparatus is thus automatically safe and "fool-proof." A perfectly level and regular supply of water to tho boiler in ratio to evaporation is ensured by means ; of a feed pipe leading from the top of the cylinder to a feed water regulator, thenco to the jacketed ■ boiler. Should tho full amount of steam not bo required, a check valve rises .and allows tho excess to pass into the water in tho circulating system; while if it is required at any point it is simply turned on there, and tho weight of water closes ■ tho check valve. Consequently there may be two separate apparatuses worked by one fire, or the two may be combined into one powerful water-heating apparatus. The steam boiler is built of quarterinch boiler plate, fitted with a cap on tho bottom, held in position by means of set. screws, which cap can easily be removed for' cleaning pun-poses. The firebars in tho furnace ore movable, to enable one, by shaking them, to shift any ash that may have, collected, .Provision is also made to regulate, the draught. A new and novel apparatus worked by means of a coil iu the cylinder allows water to pass direct from tho main, and be delivered HOT to any point in a building, high or low, at one-quarter the cost of existing methods. Provision has also been mado on the cylinder for supplying boiling water for tea, starch-making, or any other purpose for which boiling water is necessary. Machines, upon which the one shown is a great improvement, have been installed by me in a number of large institutions and factories in New. South Wales aud Victoria. . ■ . , Sho;wn with the machine is a steam cooker, which has been largely adopted iu-Victoria and New South Wales, both for private homes, and large institutions. Among .the institutions-using my combined steam. boiler and .water boiling machine are the Gladesville (throo plants), Paramatta, Stockton, and Morrisett Mental Hospitals. In Victoria the machine is now used by Mont Park, Royal I'ark, Kew, and Suubury, Mental Hospitals. This system has been .adopted by the Victoria Racing, Club, something like twelve installations being used there. Shown also ,in operation, is the latest in clothes washing machines. Users of this, system have been awarded the championship, first, second, third prizes at the largest laundry exhibition held in Australia. I am also showing a plain hot water system by means of which I can supply hot water to any part of a liouso for . any purpose, from the morning cup of ' tea to the weekly washing. In use with this system is a new mothod o£ mixing hot and cold water for shower baths, obviating any chance of being scalded. A novel method for conveying hot water to upstair bathrooms is also shown. As there are so many faulty hot water systems in use, I avi showing >i method of attaching my machines to them and making them work in a satisfactory manner.. , One oi the chief necessities in' this country at the present time is a satisfactory means of cltaning utensils connected with dairying. This work ran be economically, easily, nnd quickly done with the maximum of eciency as follows:— Attached to the machine is an appliance, consisting cf trough, suraying jet, and draining table. Boiling end cold water are conveyed to the trough, in which the utensils are scrubbed. After scrubbing, they are placed ever a jet, sprayed first -\rith cold water, then with . boiling water, ensuring complete sterilisation, and then plaosd on tho draining table to bo drained and aerated. The spray or the jet works directly off the . high-pressure main, giving the water a power to thoroughly cleanse every corner of dairy utensils used in connection with this industry. It is specially adapted for the cleansing of milking machine parts, thoroughly washing them with a high-pressure water supply, first with cold water, followed, by bciling water. Attached to the jet is a two-way tap, to enable the operator to hose down with boiling water dairies, yards, milk cart;,, etc. Provision is mado by means of a pump to enable the farmer who resides out of the high-pressure watsr supply area to .get the same effect as his- city . brother. This machine was first brought out by me at the request of Doctor Robsrtson, of the Victorian' Department of Agriculture. Very many of these machines are now used in.Victoria, and N.S.W. : The N.S.W. Fresh Food and Ice Co., ■ who are the largest milk vendors south of the Line, have taken out their steam boilers at a number of their different ■ depots, and installed this system. I am showing what I claim to bo the i quickest hot'water system in . the world. In two minutes from tho application of tho match to the kindling wood hot water can be drawn at any part of a dwelling ; from a three-quarter-inch hill-bore pipe. 1 This system is within the reach of the 1 working man. Complete hot-water instal- ■ lations can bo fixed under this method to the different points in a home from .£lO upwards. Any of the above machines can 1 also be used for working radiators for house warming, chicken brooder heater, etc. On view is' a mechanical dish-washing machine, which consists of a basket; into this tho dishes are placed. I't is ' then placed in position, and the beaters, with which the basket is surrounded, travel round so as to throw the water over and over the dishes. After a fow , turns of tho handle, tho basket is lifted out of the machine, and the dishes arc • allowed to drain. 3 Thoro is also shown a self-draining float s for cistern ball cockj which provents the " possibility .of a ball becoming submerged, j? although a hole may exist in the float. ' This samo method .is shown for-nee in : connection with the supply of water from ' the mains to steam boilers. Shown, too, are views of what is claimed to be the largest gas-heated boiling water system in the Southern llemis- • phere, if not in the world, namely, the • Tea House at the Australian Jockey Club's course, Randwick. Also views of machines used by the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales for the I' supply of free boiling water to tho pub- .) lie at its magnificent show grounds, ! Moore Park, Sydney, besides which are views of plants working in largo refreshment rooms and institutions in Victoria and New South Wales.—(Published by Arrangement.)