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72: THE EBSEN GREASE EX- TRACTOR. Among the many concerns engaged in the overhauling and fitting out of vessels in New York harbor and vicinity there are few better known than the James Reilly Repair & Sup- ply Co, This. concern, now the Griscom-Spencer Co., has a large and well equipped plant in Jersey City, adjacent to the principal ferry slips, repair and supply shops on New York THE Marine REVIEW market a number of years and are well known in the marine field; among others may be. mentioned the Reilly multicoil' feed water heater, Quiggins patent evaporator and distiller. and the Ebsen grease extractor, this latter being shown in _ the accompanying illustrations. The Ebsen grease extractor is de- signed for removing grease and oil from the feed water before it enters the boilers. It is connected to the CONNECTIO TO LP RECEIVER FEED TO | [BOILERS « || __ EXHAUST, | STEAMay ' -- a he 5 --- = ) 2 a 3 Y ' 2 AUXILIARY |S ee g EXHAUST = |S eS Meee i ta we FEED WaTER® a LS] fener ! oO a) Ks 1 =) y Se oe | (REILLY = GREASE EXTRACTOR |!]/ | |S | 1 | T ewss|f, | FEED WATER D | ames DRAIN TO | a S FEED WATER ir) FEED TANK MAIN ie PUMP CONDENSER] | AUTOMATIC BACK = PRESSURE VALVE | ct gee al I or SHIP'S BOTTOM SECTION SHOWING LOCATION OF EBSEN -PATENT. GREASE EXTRACTOR. river front and at Philadelphia. The shops on West street, New York, were established in 1867, and for near- ly 25 years did practically all the re- pair work on the steamers of the American and Red Star lines and many foreign-going, coastwise and river steamers. During the entire time a large.force of expert engineers and machinists: have been retained, and the company has gained a world- wide reputation for rapid and skillful overhauling and repairs. Since the es- tablishment of the New York shops they have been practically rebuilt and the plant considerably extended. 2 in addition. ito. being at. all times in a position to undertake marine engine and boiler repairs, the: re-fit- ting of hulls, rigging. and decks, and appliances for handling cargo, this' company manufactures an ex- tended line of engineering specialties, many of which have been on the feed line on the delivery side of the main feed pump, and fs usually bolt- ed to the bulkhead near the pump. The apparatus consists o1 a cast iron or gun metal casing, divided into two compartments by a partition which has a taper hole in the center. The separating cartridge consists of a cop- per tube of special design and _ per- forated over its entire surface with small holes. It is fitted at one end with a brass ring, which makes a watertight joint in the taper hole of the partition, the other end being fitted with a perforated casting which supports the cartridge centrally with- in tie casing. Ihe cartridge. is wrapped with one or more turns of Turkish toweling, or a special filtering cloth. The feed pump delivery is connect- ed to the cross valve shown on the left hand side of the cut, and on open- ing the two end cross valves: and closing the middle or by-pass valve the feed water enters the large cham- ber of the casing surrounding the ~ cartridge, is forced through the filter-' ing cloth to the center of the: cart ridge, then through center of -the taper ring to the cross valve on the right hand side and thence to the boilers. When the by-pass. valve is opened and the end cross valves are closed the feed water passes di- rectly to the boilers, shutting off both chambers of the casing so that the cartridge can be removed by open- ing the door at the end. The large inlet chamber is fitted with a pressure gage, which, when the cartridge is covered with a clean cloth, will show a pressure slightly above boiler pressure. As the cloth: gradually becomes charged with grease. the resistance will cause the gage to rise, and when it shows 10 or 12: pounds above boiler pressure will indicate that the cloth is foul and re- quires changing. As the cloths can be frequently washed there is com- paratively little expense in the up- keep of this apparatus. There are many advantages in the Ebsen grease extractor. A spare cartridge and cloth EXTRACTOR. EBSEN. GREASE can be always on hand, the changing of the cloth -occupies only a few minutes, the design and operation is simple and the cost of maintenance practically nothing. The German Admiralty, after three years' experiments with a type of sub- marine constructed at Kiel, has de- cided to go into the construction of this type of vessel extensively and orders have been placed at Dantzic for six submarines to be completed as soon as possible. In addition to the sum of $2,500,000 to be included in the budget of 1909 for this purpose it is reported that $3,750,000 will be asked for in 1910,