| Show FM INVENTS METHOD OF CLEANSING WOOL I I Student Discovers Process in Which c Crudo Oil 2 Has Hus a I Part Port 5 S 2 n u j tU U LI u u u u u II U U u Cal CI March r until r n a graduate student In the of t chemistry In itt the r tty of or California hu had the distinction of ot In Inventing II venting a I new method of cleansing raw W wool which gives of ut eventually the ha wool wuel wol Industry In this state If not In thu entire country Dis Discarding D carding tho the old oh costly olly and complex meth nieth method od rJ th h he has hl 1 Id a Il new fleW process In which crude crul oil 01 distillate performs the Im p part pr This fhle In every ver experiment U 14 U U U U U IA U U U II U U U 11 U tried with wih It II thus tar far has hal yielded tho most moot gratifying ratCh and ana the young scientist 10 18 l now nol tit lt It th opinion that In such vola volatile tile tle solvents of ot In alkaline und urn 11 soapy lap apY solutions a u heretofore lion floe tho the se ae secret crt cret of at tho proper decreasing nf of o new lew wool woul wool During his study for tor or bachelor of free which Iio ho received In 1901 l rind mid for hi his mauler master of or decree conferred d dont one cine ont year later he lie had made a 0 In of if r the tile there ther being no less IMS than nix plants devot deot devoted ed ti to this lili Ihl work In California va being lell boIn In InSI Sari San SI Francisco alone slone Ilone Ho 10 found us as I a com corn mon man fault with the old oi processes to sq long longIn Ion IonIn In Vogue ogue that they required complicated complIcate expensive chemi chemicals chell All cals whIch not nt ho be le regained In II thu tim process of or wishing and Ind high priced skilled labor labur In hi Invention ho lIe claims ho Il lr has hal done dono dOlo away with wih ull ul these thee 11 ld vantages Vant DUOS ol ul between 83 g arid Ild 90 0 O degrees 1 C In Is II the thu volatile solvent y It I having tho the Import mil nn advantages of ot or cheapness 8 with writer through dis dissolving Il solving qualities And n a low III bolting boiling bolln point pint i The he h nan his designed has hns hn tho the two Important features of ot cheapness and It 1 IN is II practically a I largo let rot extractor In which the raw wool la Is soaked Ilal 1 In 1 the Ih solvent until oil all 11 fat at li l I re ro removed r moved The machine works automatically ly Iy the heat bert of or evaporation carrying the 1 distillate to a IL point 1 whore It can cnn bo lj al nl 1 to How back bACkY by gravity to tho the ex cx extractor e tractor anti and thus bo be e used over Mum ull In from irom the tle labor standpoint the tho only effort that Is II required Is I In the wool Into Ino Inn Its 11 eago caO CRIO and lit In manipulating a few oW valves A generous saving It has been od tl would olid be effected by ly the tile solvent pro IJO can cs to 10 that and work their own wool 1101 for fOI fo worsted pur poses poLes In round run numbers num er this Iris averages i 2 cents per her pound It I Is II mad mII 1 In th tb cost COlt of or tho the scrip neap with w h h this pro pru pruce process cess cem ce entirely i sec nJ in a IreM or er yield of tho the wool liber Ibl since Ice none nono of or It ItIs ItIs I Is dissolved by ly soap and alkali as US lS in tho the Il old olti methods third In the tho superior I soft softness ness and appearance of ot tin th iii finished pro lIra product IIO duct fourth In thu tho and the pot n ash h recovered It I Is tirl Bruit saving alI of ot IrH that Is the Iho strong point In Invention in inre re Kurd to this matter ho ire nays Hays BIH The cost of tho ho operation Including labor solvent power Interest el 1 would bo ira more than covered by the morl soap HODI 1 saved Moreover It might bo be le well wel to vail call en to tho tart fact that lint out nut or ot such wools as are worked work In the tire United Suites an nn average norlO of ot 15 n per pr cent cont of or the tho fat con can be ho by I the tire solvent pro process process cess which at nt a n minimum or ot 3 cents tier per pound would woul bring b 4 cents for or every oVery ill 10 pounds of at wool and If Ir in I t tilts this Is l added tIm the of the tho car carbonate bonate of or potash recovered from tho the runt runtime ime waters which on an average would woul amount to 25 cents C net act ni per Iler 1110 10 luiJs of ot raw wool ool treated wo we would have 70 cents as nu al tho thu average minimum 1110 of or tire the th by hy byproducts products recovered from every svery 10 pounds of raw wool or of ot a a n cent per pound of ot raw wool treated Hence it seems safe HatO mi to lo say sa that lint from fron to orth worth of oC wool fat fM and potash era run rim down the tIre streams end and Ind wasted an nn annually In II tho the States atone alone ulolo If I t tins this wool ool fat Instead of oC hung being tuis re recovered covered and refined and Into IntI us Its ls parts Its 11 value would In Increase Il crease creaso at least fivefold and Its I uses would lo be lo sure jure url to K I 1 Chronicle |
