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A. H. Boelter, 65, a former resident of this city, where he was occupied in the milling
business, died early Tuesday morning at his home in Chicago, according to word received by Mrs.
William Boelter, who is visiting Rochester relatives. Boelter, who is survived by a widow and six
children, was born in Germany, emigrating to this country when 15 years of age. He lived in
Illinois and LaPorte before moving to this city, where he patented and manufactured a carpet
cleaning machine.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, December 28, 1921]
WILLIAM LOY OBTAINS PATENT ON TIRE VALVE
William Loy, local inventor, has received notice that a patent has been granted him on an
automobile valve that prevents overloading of air in the tube. The date of the patent is Feb. 28,
1922.
The invention, on which Loy has been working for a long time, differs from an ordinary
valve in that it has a scale that may be set so that the tire may be filled from 30 to 100 lbs.
pressure. When the pressure gets above the amount set on the scale the air is automatically
released from the tube.
Also the amount of pounds pressure in the tube can be determined at any time by the
turning of the valve down on the scale until the air is released from the tire, then reading the
figures indicated. Mr. Loy has not yet determined just what method will be followed in putting the
valve on the market but he has already had several offers on the patent.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, March 6, 1922]
NEW RADIATOR DEVICE PERFECTED BY SEREWICZ
Albert E. Serewicz, of this city, who came here from Chicago some time ago to organize
the Gauge Valve Corporation, which was to have manufactured a new departure in tire valves,
which he had perfected, has now devised an entirely new radiator for commercial purposes of all
kinds.
This radiator, which is made up of copper cup-shaped sections, fitting one into the other,
being tapered so as to be air tight when pressed together, making it readily repaired by removing
any section of the tube that has been damaged, which is something that cannot be done with the
present type radiator now in use.
This devise is not only a radiator, but is used for all hearing and cooling purposes and is
an altogether new principle by which a liquid or air can be heated or cooled more rapidly than any
now known method, which is the basis upon which the patent is claimed.
Several models have been made on the automobile radiator principle and as soon as the
patterns are completed a hot water heater, which can be heated by gas, will be tested and at the
Rochester gas plant and it is expected to heat about 30 gallons of water at the consumption of 14
cubic feet of gas per hour, whereas under the present methods it requires approximately 60 feet of
gas for the same number of gallons per hour.
The heater will cost about 50 per cent of the present cost of most heaters on the market
doing the same work.
Mr. Serewicz made application for patent on the principle he employs last August and
since that time has been engaged in perfecting most of the new methods for which it can be used.
The device has been shown to radiator experts of some of the largest manufactories of the country,
all of whom pronounce it the most radical departure of heating and cooling ever perfected and its
possibilities are claimed by them to be unlimited. Mr. Serewicz is even now negotiating with
several large cas appliance manufacturing concerns and also with one of the largest boiler and
radiator concerns in the country.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, March 7, 1922]
GETS A PATENT
George LESLIE, 43, partially blind for ten years, has been granted a government patent
on a chicken brooder that has a unique heating and ventilating system to provide different degrees
of temperature for separate sections containing chickens of varying age.