New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . ed on Mr. Nyes wharves in barrels and isplaced in wells. From here it passes into standpipes, where it isagitated and thoroughly mixed by air blasts. In this process thelighter gases pass awav. There are three of these standpipes, eachhaving a capacity of one hundred fifty barrels. After agitation theoil becomes white and is left sixty days to settle. Then a Worthing-ton duplex steam pump forces the oil into distributing tanks in theattic. A filler, patented by Joseph K. Nye, a son of the proprietor,is used her
New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . ed on Mr. Nyes wharves in barrels and isplaced in wells. From here it passes into standpipes, where it isagitated and thoroughly mixed by air blasts. In this process thelighter gases pass awav. There are three of these standpipes, eachhaving a capacity of one hundred fifty barrels. After agitation theoil becomes white and is left sixty days to settle. Then a Worthing-ton duplex steam pump forces the oil into distributing tanks in theattic. A filler, patented by Joseph K. Nye, a son of the proprietor,is used here and with it a gross of bottles can be filled in one bottling rooms are very complete. After washing, the bottles areplaced in a drving room where the mercury stands at two hundreddegrees Fahrenheit. In addition to the fillers, a corking machine,invented by Mr. Nye, is used. The watch, chronometer, and clock oil is composed of porpoisejaw and blackfish head oil. Several years ago an unparalleled schoolof blackfish appeared on the coast of Massachusetts and twenty-two. 190 NEW BEDFORD. hundred of these monster fish were driven into inlets and bayous,where the receding tide left them an easy prey. The entire catch wassecured by Mr. N3e, ensuring a supply of oil which will last manyyears. The process of refining these oils for watches and clocksrequires about two years. Recently Mr. Nye has established a refinery at St. Albans, Vt.,and the oil passes through the processes with the temperature thirty-five degrees below zero. By this means the oil is freed from allimpurities that corrode and blacken the pivots of a watch and it isperfectly unaffected by heat or cold. It is much whiter than oil re-fined in these latitudes. The oil is strained through strainers of cotton flannel and is thenplaced in tubes, where it stands for about eighteen months. Thesetubes, or tanks, are kept in a fire proof vault, and fine watch and clockoil to the value of ten thousand dollars is stor
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