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SUMMER, 1948 VOLUME XXVI NUMBER 2 Publiahed by Elliott Company ... POWER* PAX it a nugsase qf information for cngineo* and operator* ofsteam and electric power plants, or in dufp of industrial procettca. More than 30.000 copies are distributed quarterly with the cempSmexits of Elliott Company to its customers ami friends. Address correspondence regarding POWERFAX to C. W. Xalbfits. Editor. KOiott Company. Jeannette. Pa. ontents - . .i ditorial ELLIOTT UNVEILS NEW OXYGEN PROCESS................................................ 4 THE ELLIOTT TURBO-EXPANDER..................................................................... 7 START-UP EJECTORS................................................................................................. 10 A DIESEL GENERATOR TO THE RESCUE.......................................................II POWER ENCIRCLES "THE LITTLE BROWN CHURCH"............................... 12. EJECTOR VACUUM USED IN LUMBER IMPREGNATION....................... 14 ELLIOTT ELECTROMAGNETIC SLIP COUPLINGS. GENERATORS, AND TURBOCHARGERS SERVE FRENCH MOTOR CARGO VESSELS 16 VACUUM FOR VEGETABLE OIL DRYINQ....................................................... 19 ELLIOTT SPRAY-TRAY HEATER IS STEP FORWARD IN DEAERATION DEVELOPMENT............................................................. CLEANING LONG STRETCHES OF UNDERGROUND CONDUIT.......... 24 FABRI-STEEL MOTOR IN TEXTILE MILL...................................................... 25 NEW PUMPS FOR CLEVELAND'S WATER SYSTEM....................................26 MISSISSIPPI POWER COMPANY'S PLANT EATON AND ITS FEEDWATER CYCLE.............................................................................................. 28 DRESS REHEARSAL FOR 11,500 KW...................................................................30 EXHAUSTERS THAT NEVER GROW TIRED...................................................30 POWERCRAX.............................................................................................................. 31 20 new publications Bulletin Y-26. Four pages. "Lagonda Air and Water Driven Cleaners for Boiler Tubes and General Service--for Straight or Curved Tubes--with ShortSurface Swing Frame Cutter Heads." An "Information Please" session, with a panel of experts, was featured at the 27th annual convention of The Natural Gasoline Association of America held last March in Fort Worth, Texas. Photograph shows half the panel, R. N. Williams, manager, Elliott Company blower department, was the expert on centrifugal blowers. Showsdisassembled views of 1300 series and 2000 series motors, a disassembled Elliott gas turbine inspires story view of the short-surface swing frame cutter head and complete tube cleaners involving various motors with this type of head. A site tabulation is included. Did you read thestory "Man ofPower," by Charles Ellsworth, in the April 3 issue of "The Saturday Evening Post"? The gas turbine background for this gas turbine ever built in this country. "Sponsored by the Navy, this marine model was more than the realisation of a centuries-old dream; it was the older Bulletin C-9.16 pages. "Elliott Type F Surface Condensers, rises 500 to 15,000 sq ft, in both divided water-box and nondivided water-box types." Includes data on condensate pumps, steam jet ejectors, duplex drainers, air leakage meters, as well as a pressure-temper ature' conversion table, chart for deter- -i mining logarithmic mean temperature difference, and condenser formulas. story came out of the Elliott Company plant. Charles Ellsworth was a public relations, or publicity, man during the war and was in regular contact with Elliott Company. "He learned about gas turbines from us." In fact, in The Curtis Publishing Company four-page publication called "Inside Information from The Satur day Evening Post," covering this issue, Mr. Ellsworth is quoted a? brother of the rams and jets which a recent Post article dealt with so in terestingly. Some day it will burn powdered coal and power trains. "The trick is to find metals to stand cherry-red heat at fantastic speeds. The big question was whether the tur bine would blow up. It did not, of course, but it might have. "Aside from the thrill of watching something that had stopped Da Vinci, Bulletin Y-28.4 pages. "Tube Cleaners follows: my big kick came from the shuddering for Locomotives." This bulletin con "The idea for `Man of Power* came pulse of almost limitless power that sists mainly of a reprint of the article from a very real event," Ellsworth filled the big test shop in Jeannette, under this heading from the Spring says. "As publicrelations manforElliott Pennsylvania. As an engineer standing issue ofFowerfax with the addition of a Company I witnessed in their plant next to me said, `It's like feeling the tabulation showing tube cleaner sizes. actual tests of rise first successful hand of God on your shoulder1' " 2 Copyright, 1948, EUJott Company, Jeannette. Pa. CRIMDEBN00000329