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1878 Article-Thwaites and Carbutt, "Vulcan" Portable Forge with Root's Blower |
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The Implement & Machinery Review, V4 #44, 01 Dec 1878, pgs. 1930-1931 |
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11/15/2014 1:28:42 PM |
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"Week in, week out, from morn till night, you can hear his bellows blow," may be as truthfully as it is poetically descriptive of the village blacksmith in the youthhood of Longfellow, but from our knowledge of the publicity which is being given to what is known as “The Eclipse Blower,” we question if it is more than a poetical description of the village blacksmith of the present day. It ought not to be more than a poetical description of the blacksmith, village or torn, anywhere now-a-days, when such handblowers as those we here illustrate are available. They are fortunate people who have supplied themselves with the one thousand of Root‘s blowers of this class, of which, as in respect of all the different kinds of Root‘s blowers, Messrs. Thwaites & Carbutt, engineers, of Bradford, are the makers. Not one, we vouch for it, but has found the claim of the manufacturers verified. Whether driven with lever, with belt, or with chain, all alike have been found “ easy to work, and more compact, durable, and efficient than bellows, fans, or any other blower." We supply illustrations of the hand blowers driven with belt and with chain respectively. The one with chain gear is, it will be noted, of new design, and for certain uses is more to our mind than the older form to which the belt gear is applicable. As to either, however, twice the amount of work can be done with it that can be done with a bellows or, so far as our experience has gone, with any other fan blower; and whilst as it is made wholly of iron, and is therefore very durable, and by the perfect combustion which it occasions leads to a great saving of fuel, is also so thoroughly under the control of the operator that its force can be varied immediately from the slightest breath to the strongest blast required for the heaviest class of work. Nor is the hand blower alone applicable to smiths' shops; it can be used for, amongst numerous other purposes, barrel pitching, ventilation, fruit cooling, for pneumatic dispatch work, and the like. Of the small-power blowers, in all sizes no fewer than 2,500 have already been supplied. To these Messrs. Thwaites & Carbutt have given great attention. Of this and of their many years experience the result is that for the use of engineers, smiths, boiler makers, and so forth, the blowers they now supply, the makers guarantee to be the most complete and durable in the market. In the blowers, which are now being sent out the internal revolvers are made of metal, and are turned and shaped with so much accuracy that they have become as true as the piston of a steam engine. The finest quality of steel is used in the shafts, and the bearings, which are very long, are cast from a special hard mixture of gunmetal. These blowers are capable of a maximum speed of 300, and can be run for 20 years at the average speeds to which in ordinary working they are put. Amongst the processes for which the blowers are well adapted are those peculiar to copper-smiths, tinners, card makers, cotton, woolen or flax mills, ventilating, paper feeders, and so forth. The prices, we note, vary from £5 for a small fire up to £15 for two large fires. |
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1878 Thwaites and Carbutt, "Vulcan" Portable Forge with Root's Blower
1878 Thwaites and Carbutt, "Vulcan" Portable Forge with Root's Blower
1878 Thwaites and Carbutt, "Vulcan" Portable Forge with Root's Blower
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