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Collection: Books and Periodicals > Mining & Scientific Press

Volume 17 (1868) (428 pages)

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1,02 The Mining and Scientific Press. HANSCOM & Co. HANSCOM’S ROCK CRUSHER. The bestof the kindin use. Right secured by U.S. Letters Patent. VARNEY’S IMPROVED QUARTZ GRINDER, Which only needs examination to be appreciated. TYLER’S IMPROVED WATER WHEEL Gives greater power at lower cost than any All Wheels warranted to give the power as set forth, or the money will be refunded. Send for one of our Wheel in use. circulars, giving full tables. G. T, BOHEN’S PATENT CESSPOOL COVERS. Sole manufacturers of the above Patent. Castings always on hand. * HAYES’ IMPROVED STEAM PUMP. For pumping out mines or pumping water in any way, this is considered by miners and engineers as superior to anything now inuse. Parties on this coast now using them will attest to their efficiency. HOUSE FRONT CASTINGS. We claim to make the best castings of the above kind of work now made on the Pacific coast, and think that a reference to our work will bear us out in the assertion. We would call the attention of the public to the following Iron Fronts made by us Fireman’s Fund Insurance Building; San Francisco Sayings Union; the New California Market; Chas. Land’s Building, on the corner of Sansome and Bush streets; Dooly Block Co’s Building, on the corner of Sutter and Sansome streets; Kennedy’s Warehouse, for good work, to wit: corner Broadway and Battery streets; Livingston's Building, corner California and Battery streets; the new Calvary Church Building, corner Geary and Powell streets; new Theatre, on Bush street, and many others that we have not space to mention. VARNEY’S NEW PAN, Mr. Varney, by long practical experience and close study of the working of Pans, has succeeded in bringing his Pan to great simplicity and perfection. All parties interested should make it a point to examine the new improvements, as it will well repay for the time so spent. 7. 0. HANSCOM, } THOS. PENDERGAST. H. 8. SMITH. W. W. HANSCOM. ERANSCOM ce CO,, S. E. corner Fremont and Tehama Streets, SAN FRANCISCO. PRACTICAL MACHINISTS AND IRON FOUNDERS. — MANUFACTURE — Steam Engines, Quartz Mill Machinery, SAW MILLS, FLOUR MILLS, And all other kinds of Machinery that may be desired.
DUNBAR’S SELF-ADJUSTING STEAM PISTON PACKING. The accompanying and following are some of the specialties of the work of this Establishment : DUNBAR’S PATENT? PISTON PACKING, WITH SMITH’S IMPROVEMENT, There are of this Patent upwards of rHrEe HUNDRED in actual operation on this coast. Itrequires no springs or screws, is always steam tight, without excessive friction, and never gets slack or leaky. Any amount of recommendations can be given on application. HANSCOM & Co. JOHNSON & BURCH'S PATENT EUREKA CLUTCH AND BRAKE. The Clutch is extremely simple, and can scarcely, by any possibility, get out of order, and will never wear out, except by decay or decomposition of the material of which it may be made. It is designed for hoisting purposes generally, and is just We should not then hear of the mining accidents which occur the thing for miners. daily from the giving away of hoisting gears. Parties using them in stores in this city give some of the best kind of certificates of their value over any other kind of Friction Hoist. W. W, HANSCOM’S IMPROVED DIRECT-ACTING STEAM PUMP, Being made of only five pieces of metal, and having only two movable parts, it is considered by experts to be the simplest and best feed Pump ever yet invented. CARVALHO'S PATENT STEAM SUPERHEATER A very valuable invention for economy of steam, suitable for all purposes of heating and drying steam. Recommendations from parties using them in this State can be had on application. BEMIS’ PATENT GRATE BAR, For burning screenings and fine coal, soft orhard. This isa very valuable invention, and has done more for the benefit of California coal mines than anything else. By the use of this Grate Bar, all the debris and screenings can be used which formerly had to be thrown away. It is in use in about all the steamers on this coast and for many land boilers. All parties using coal will find it to their advantage to use these Bars. ORNAMENTAL CASTINGS. We have established a special department for Ornamental Work, Stove Plate, Piano Plates, and all kinds of Fancy Castings, to which public attention is respectfully called. All of the above mentioned articlesewill be on exhibition at the Mechanics’ Sixth Industrial Fair, and the attention of the public is respectfully called to the merits of each article as set forth. HANSCOM & CO., S. E. cor. Fremont and Tehama sts.