. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. brush the center of which is cut brush fits over the mouth or suctionend of the cleaner. Inside the casingof the latter is a little suction fan drivenat high speed by an electric motor. Asthe brush passes over the fabric, looseningthe dirt and particles of lint, air is drawnin by the fan and the dirt is deposited inthe bag beneath. A screen in front ofthe opening prevents folds of cloth,buttons, etc., from getting into the wayof the fan. GETTING BENZOL FROM GASMAIN LEAKS This vehicle, with its conspicuous,brass-bound, funnel-topped tank
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. brush the center of which is cut brush fits over the mouth or suctionend of the cleaner. Inside the casingof the latter is a little suction fan drivenat high speed by an electric motor. Asthe brush passes over the fabric, looseningthe dirt and particles of lint, air is drawnin by the fan and the dirt is deposited inthe bag beneath. A screen in front ofthe opening prevents folds of cloth,buttons, etc., from getting into the wayof the fan. GETTING BENZOL FROM GASMAIN LEAKS This vehicle, with its conspicuous,brass-bound, funnel-topped tank, piping,hose, pump, etc., is an outfit rigged up bya gas and electric corporation for collect-ing benzol, a bi-product very much akinto gasoline, draining from high pressuregas mains along with gas-water. Theliquid, being highly volatile, is pumped by Pumping theBi-productfrom a Pocket. Vacuum Clothes Cleaner hand from seepage pockets, emptyinginto the funnel and then into the tank,which is bound with polished brass andkept more or less attractive as a sort ofadvertisement, in its continual passageover the city streets. Some 150 gallonsof this valuable bi-product, formerlythrown away, is now gathered daily,distilled once and used in place of gasolineby the numerous automobiles and auto-trucks of the corporation, a very large one,it being, by the way, under contract tosupply all the heat, light and energy of thePanama-Pacific Exposition. The man-ner of formation of the benzol is unique in POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE 1169 that it enters the mains with the illumi-nating gas in a similar gaseous form butlater becomes condensed into a liquid. Persons who have experimented de-clare the gas-water, which also collectsin the drain pockets, beneficial for skindiseases when tried out on the dog. Some very unenlightened individualshave actually supposed the man at
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