THE SHIPMAN STEAM ENGINE.at retail from 8 to 10 cents per gallon. The fire is formed by the pressure of air or steam flowing through an atomizer which throws the kerosene in a very fine spray into the fire box in the boiler. The combustion is complete and the heat is intense. The oil is consumed without the agency of wicks. The diaphragm invented especially for this engine To illustrate: If 100 pounds of steam are required the dia phragm is set so that the pressure would put out the fire at 105 pounds. When the engine is running and doing no work the steam gauge will indicate about 100 pounds and fire will be burning very low because the engine would be If the engine stops the steam gauge would go up a pound out for the reason that the diaphragm when closed discon nects the steam from the atomizer and no oil is sprayed hence no fire. If the engine be started this relieves pres sure from diaphragm ; it opens steam again goes to atomizer and atomizes the oil and from a small taper arranged for the purpose the fire is again burning sufficiently for the amount of steam you are using. Having shown the results when engine is running light and then stopped we now take the opposite view and sup pose the engine to be running light and we take more power from it; the result is we are taking steam from boiler faster than the small fire makes it. This at once givesrelief to open far enough to get full blast of fire. This is a practi cal automatic regulator and acts as a safeguard against overpressure in the boiler. Besides this a safety or pop valve is applied. A further peculiarity of this boiler is an automatic water regulator operating to maintain a uniform amount of water in the boiler and thus providing another safeguard against acci dent. In a small reservoir on the side of the boiler is a float connected by levers with the pump valve. By this means the water is kept at the proper height. That one may be sure that the regulator is in working order a water glass is attache
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