Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-08-09 | Page 11 | "Go Devil" Cleans Oil Pipelines

Go D Devil vil Cleans j jOil I Oil Pipelines When crude oil on Is pumped through pipe lines it deposits until the pipe is clogged Then a scraper scrap scrap- er or is put in the line and pumped through The first model was a along along along long bolt on which were strung several disks of ot le leather ther at the rear end was a tin disk It It as vias was pumped through until it could go no farther then the pipe was opened and the pumps forced out a solid oUd core core cord of wax a wax a sort of ot paraffin candle six inches thick and 50 60 yards long Now traps traps traps' are placed at Intervals als the scraper enters a a. side track or pass by and and falls fails Into a pocket Valves are turned and the main line Is opened after which the pocket et Is s cleaned out and the scrapers started again As the first scraper rumbled through the underground pipe line it so frightened negro farmers that they called it the rg go devil a name which still sUIt sticks