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August .17, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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ALL THESE PEOPLE USE 



The Morehead Trap 



RETURNING CONDENSATION 



(Beprinted from the Florists' Seview, March 9, 1905.) 



I notice an article in the Review of 

 February 'J. headed "Returning Con- 

 densation, " in which It Is apparent that 

 the writer is surprised that high press- 

 ure and an automatic pump are not 

 recommended to those who want the 

 best system. I am surprised, after my 

 experience with this system of heating, 

 that anyone having experience should 

 recommend it. 



I first built two houses, each 150 feet 

 long, and put the boiler down in a pit 

 twelve feet deep, on a system recom- 

 mended to me, the gravity system. I 

 found that one-third of the pipes were 

 always cold. The steam condensed in 

 the pipes and water accumulated. The 

 steam in the boiler prevented the water 

 from returning until a large quantity 

 accumulated, so that the weight of the 

 water was heavy enough to overcome the 

 steam pressure. 



Then I changed from this system to 

 a trap system. This was twenty years 

 ago. That trap was so complicated that 

 It was constantly out of order and I 

 had frequently to get up in the night to 

 repair it. The parts were so small that 

 any little dirt that got in would clog 

 It. Krom this I changed to the pump 

 system. At that time the automatic 

 receiver on the pump w'as not yet in 

 existence. I got one of the best steam- 

 litters to make for me a i-eceiver, put 

 a float In and attached the pump. The 

 receiver lie made was 3x6 feet, holding 



five or six barrels of water, so I was 

 pumping cold water back into the boil- 

 ers. This was not satisfactory and I 

 wa^ on the lookout for something else. 



I found a trap that was guaranteed 

 to be satisfactory. I have used this for 

 the last five years and would not be 

 without it. It has worked for six 

 months at a time without any attention. 

 We return to the boiler without any 

 pump, and without any air cocks ; the 

 trap takes care of the whole thing. We 

 use what some would call high pressure, 

 but it is only from twenty to thirty 

 pounds. With this pressure we have 

 every pipe in the house of equal heat, 

 the returns being as hot as the flow, 

 900 feet from the boiler. 



We use twelve 1-lnch pipes In a house 

 28x300, all flows, and eight 1-lnch pipes 

 in a 20-foot house. Each pipe is con- 

 trolled by a valve. We can use all 

 flows, one or twelve. We heat from the 

 center of a 300-foot bouse, the pipes 

 running each way, returns across each 

 end returning to the boiler, these re- 

 turns across the ends being the only 

 returns. A check valve Is used at the 

 end of every 1-lnch pipe before It enters 

 the i-eturn, so that we do not have to 

 open and close valves in the returns ; 

 all we have to do is to open and close 

 the valve In the center walk. 



Some claim that high pressure will 

 not grow good flowers, but we find we 

 can grow as good stock in one end of 

 the house as in the other, and we do 

 not find one end cold and another hot. 



With low pressure the farther ends of 

 the pipes are always colder than the 

 flows, or those near the boiler, -while 

 with high pressure the water comes back 

 to the boiler at nearly boiling heat, re- 

 (luirlng but little flre to convert It into 

 steam again. With the trap system you 

 do not have the expense of running a 

 pump and keeping it in repair. Further, 

 we do not require a boiler pit, as the 

 boiler will work just as well on top 

 of the ground as In a cellar. 



"The pi-oof of the pudding Is In the 

 eating." The following well known 

 Arms, some of the largest In the coun- 

 try, have tried all systems and are now 

 using the traps. Our concern has 250,- 

 000 feet of glass, but the system will 

 work just as well on a small plant If 

 no more than 1,000 feet of glass. Peter 

 Reinbei'g changed from pumps to traps 

 and was pleased. Hassett & Washburn 

 have let a contract for a new place, all 

 traps. Breltmeyer's Sons, at Mount 

 Clemens, were twenty-five feet below the 

 surface with their boilers but have 

 changed to traps. The J. D. Thompson 

 Co., JoUet, put in a pump system at 

 large expense, used it two years and 

 changed to this system and would not 

 change back under any consideration. 

 Around Cleveland nearly all the florists 

 are using traps. 



This article Is not written to advertise 

 any trap. It is simply to help any one 

 and every one to get the best system 

 without a lot of expensive experiments. 



J. M, Gasser. 



American Blower Co. 



DETROIT, NICH. 



1550 Marquette BIdg., CHICAGO !l%^r. 141 Broadway, NEW YORK 



