THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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I congratulate you heartily, brother Hutch- 

 inson in getting Hasty into the review busi- 

 ness. I think you'll hud that in that line 

 Hasty will be — well, he'll be Hasty. 



Anent the smoker business, I think Mr. 

 Cornell is right, that you could not be sure 

 of having two smokers tilled alike with pla- 

 ner shavings, but if each were filled times 

 enough the trial might be fair. 



Now if I've touched on any point covered 

 by Hasty, you have a pencil. 



Maeengo, 111. Jan. 26, 1893. 



Some Novel Hints on Smoker Construction. — 



A Double Bellows that will Throw 



a Continuous Stream. 



E. A. DAGGITT. 



<^^ HAVE not read all the articles on smok- 

 ffl) ers, but find them interesting. So far, 

 •*» I do not take any fancy to the Crane 

 smoker, although it is an ingenious affair. 

 Neither do I take much interest in the im- 

 provements of the Bingham smoker. Both 

 have the bellows on upside down. If Bing- 

 ham would put the bellows on his, right end 

 up he would made the biggest improvement 

 he has made yet. I have been studying 

 smokers for years. Three or four years ago, 

 when putting on the nozzle of my Bingham 

 Conqueror smoker, I carelessly or thought- 

 lessly put the bottom of the smoker against 

 my breast and spoiled a good vest. I there 

 came to the conclusion that the barrel ought 

 to be covered with some non-conducting 

 material ; and I have wondered if asbestos 

 felt would not answer the purpose. It is 

 non-conbustible and I think a poor conduc- 

 tor of heat. Then I have often felt a want 

 — and I suppose you have too — for a smoker 

 that will throw a steady stream of smoke — 

 not by puffs as the smokers now do. I 

 studied on this, and hit on the idea of using 

 a double bellows, — one half to give force to 

 the air and the other to act as an air cham- 

 ber and give elasticity to the current of air 

 and give a steady stream of it. I got this 

 idea of a double bellows from a blacksmith's 

 bellows. You will find that such a bellows 

 will work easier than a single one. Of course 

 the main bellows will use a spring to expand 

 it and the second one will use one to con- 

 tract it. This smoker will require two self- 

 closing valves, and I think these, and the 



spring of the second bellows can be so ad- 

 justed as to give a steady, or approximately 

 steady, stream of smoke if the first bellows 

 is properly worked. The inner board or 

 plate of the first bellows, which is stationary, 

 must run below this bellows and have a 



DAGGITT DOUBLE-BELLOWS SMOKEB. 



piece tacked on it at the bottom on the side 

 next to the second bellows to contain the ex- 

 haust valve. The second bellows must not 

 be over % or % as large as the first one, but 

 it should lap it in such a way as to put a large 

 and a small end of each to each other ex- 

 cept that the second bellows should extend 

 below the first as far or nearly as far as the 

 extension of the plate of the first, but not 

 far enough up to prevent grasping the first 

 by the hand at the top. The supply valve 

 can be put just above the top of the second 

 bellows and the second valve can be put just 

 below the top of the bellows. The exhaust 

 valve should be ball or cone shaped so as to 

 give the least obstruction to the air as it is- 

 sues towards the barrel. This second bel- 

 lows idea does away efifectually with the 

 trouble from smoke entering the bellows ; 

 for there can be no back action of air into 

 it. You know how effectively the principle 

 works in a blacksmith bellows. You will 

 notice in the drawing of the smoker that 

 have added Mr. Cornell's ventilating ideat 

 my smoker. I have been wondering if the 

 addition of this same idea to the nozzle 

 would not be an improvement. Sometimes 

 the smoke becomes very hot and it seemf- to 

 me that it would be a good idea to mix air 

 with it. The nozzle could be in two parts, — 

 the upper end of the lower part could be cor- 

 rugated and have the lower end of the other 



