Show REMARKABLE INVENTION WIL WILL PREVENT LOCOMOTIVE RUST DY BY I ISRAEL n EI Science Editor NEA XE Service MIllions of o dollars annually will willbe be saved by tho the Invention of R a compact powered high water heat beat beater heater heater er that Is expected to keep kepp the Ihl boilers of ot locomotives almost en- en entirely en entirely free tree from rust rutt This Invention with a width of only eight Inches Is as powerful as a a stationary heating plant four feet high With a a force foree tore of 2600 horsepower It throws n II fine fin film of the cold water from the tender Into a Jet of exhaust steam heat heat- inc heat lug Ing the water uniformly before It reaches the boiler bolier and nd releasing from 80 10 to 90 per cent of the dissolved oxygen that Is said to toca ca cause ulle a a great creat deal of the tho corro corro- corrosion corrosion corrosion sion In boiler flues AWARDED W MEDAL Thomas McBride famous me me- me- me mechanical mechanical mechanical engineer of Philadelphia has been heen awarded a medal by the tho Franklin Institute for this Invention tion n Ht His s success a came after muck concentration on this heater healer at atthe the lire large Worthington pump works in Jersey City N J 3 The Th railroads spend more than a year to provide pro water wa- wa water wa water ter for their locomotives free from the chemicals that form the rust In bollet Clues flues known as scale Yet even with distilled water wat r corro corro- corrosion corro- corro corrosion sion lion and pitting of the flues con can continued because of the oxygen dis- dis dissolved dis dissolved solved In the water I That is like tho the air bubbles bubble that form in a glass of o water left standing for tor any while The heater sets gets rid of most of this oxygen This heater mixes exhaust steam and the tho cold water ater from the th tender by direct contact con con- contact con contact tact explains D R TI Coleman head of the th railway department of the Worthington plant Till This h process rel ases from SO 80 to 90 per cent of the dis dissolved solved oxygen in the cold feN feed water by allowing It to 10 escape through an air all vent ent In the heater and as a a result materially lessens corrosion In locomotive boilers This will save an Item In opera opera- operation operation tion expense which often orten amounts to large larea figures for the tho railways PRODUCED COMPOUNDS CO Heretofore oxygen reaching ho boiler tubes and coming comini Into con con- contact contact con contact tact with the Iron of the tubes pro produced Iron oxide or iron hy- hy hydrate hy hydrate drate These chemical chem compounds are aro as al always found where corrosion Is pronounced Thus the main purpose of lire lire- Mc Bt Bride I le was to keep the tree free oxygen of the water from front the th boiler pipes And his hi chief problem was va the design of tho the heater beater Into so o corn corn- com compact pact a IL unit that It could be ho in- in installed In Installed stalled s at the sido of ot the the- locomotive locomotive locomotive tive and sUll bo be as powerful ns any large water heater beater of the tho eta sta stationary type i v I r S TOMBOY QUEEN 1 I t x ka ya t Frances la 11 oW- oW officially lally known leeown as the Tomboy Queen of WIchita Nan Kan She Is shown wearing the tomboy skirt which Is nil all the ra rage e In Wichita Ince she Introduced It |