A NEW FREEZER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4732, 29 May 1894, Page 3

A NEW FREEZER.

• A machine which is expected to 1 create a revolution in refrigerating • process was successfully tested in ; Messrs Cable & Go's foundry yester.- ■ day afternoon. It is a local invention ami a local production and it is ' called the "U'Gill Compressed Air i Machine." The inventor is Mr Dan- ; id M'G ill of Petone an engine driver 1 in the employ of the Railway Com--1 missioners who is at present in Eng- ' land arranging with Messrs Oet7.cs (tOerritsen (for whom Mr J. R. Morgan is the local agent) to place it on the London market, and the makers of the first machine arc Messrs Cable and Co., of the Lion ' Foundry, Waterloo quay, the designs having been drawn by Mr John Wclsly, mechanical engineer. , The apparatus which is a perfect model of compactnes, comprises two steam cylinders working directly over two air cylinders which.are connected in their actions by a patent liquid piston which together with ■ a third cylinder enables automatic use to bo made of the expansive force of the steam to a very cousidertble extent. It is claimed on behalf of the new invent ion as compared with the refrigerating machinery in present use - Ist saving of steam; 2nd simplicity of action; and 3rd small cost in comparison with other well known freezers on the market. The machine tested yesterday is capable of producing 6000 ft of cold air per hour. At yesterday's trial, the temperature in the air chamber fitted up for the purpose of the experiment was reduced to freezing point in the space of an hour, and snow was visible shortly afterwards in the mouth of the air passage." It is further claimed that the machine is especially suitable for hotels, butchers, fishmongers, dairymen, dairy factories, and slaughtermen, and it can be made to deliver 500 ft of cold air per hour—sufficiently large to deliver any amount required for freezing works, ships, itc. A syndicate of three local people (including Mr McGill, the inventor) are (ho sole proprietors. Already enquiries concerning it have i como to hand from agricultural I bodies in Australia. The invention i has been patented throughout the ' United Kingdom, and it is proposed, 1 as it is a local invention, to maim- , facture the machines locally— Post. ,