AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR RAISING AND FORCING WATER AND OTHER LIQUIDS
Year: 1862

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th April 1862.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR RAISING AND FORCING
WATER AND OTHER LIQUIDS," to be as follows:-
This apparatus consists principally of a steam or compressed air pipe, the
mouth of which enters and is surrounded by a socket, in which is an opening
for the admission of the water or other liquid to be raised from the well, reser-
voir, or other source of supply, and from which a delivery pipe leads to the
point where it is to be delivered, the direction of the steam or air pipe being
the same as that of the contiguous portion of the delivery pipe. The issuing.
steam or compressed air expels the water from the delivery pipe, and creates.a.

page_text: vacuum behind it. The place of the water so expelled is supplied by water
drawn up to fill the vacuum or forced up into the socket from the well, reser-
voir, or other source by the pressure of the atmosphere.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Newton in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 9th October 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign,
did, for IIerself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Edward Newton, Her special license that I, the said William Edward
Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Edward Newton, my exccutors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for " IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR RAISING AND FORCING WATER AND OTHER LIQUIDS," being a
communication from abroad, upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said William Edward Newton, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Newton, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed,
and to the letters.and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
This improved apparatus for raising and forcing water and other liquids
as communicated to me by. my foreign correspondent, consists principally of
a steam or compressed air pipe, the mouth of which enters and is sur-

page_text: rounded by a socket, in which is an opening for the admission of the
water or other liquid to be raised from the well, reservoir, or other source.
of supply, and from which a delivery pipe leads to the point where it is to
be delivered, the direction of the steam or air pipe being the same as that
of the contiguous portion of the delivery pipe. The issuing steam or con-
pressed air expels the water from the delivery pipe, and creates a vacuum
behind it. The place of the water so expelled is supplied by water drawn up
to fill the vacuum or forced up into the socket from the well, reservoir, or other
source by the pressure of the atmosphere.
The accompanying Drawing (to which reference is had) represents a central
vertical section of the apparatus.
A is the steam pipe, through which steam is admitted from a boiler by
opening a stop valve or cock B; the steam pipe A is secured at one end
into the socket C, and the opposite end of the latter receives the end of a
delivery pipe D, into the end of which the extremity of the steam pipe is.
inserted. The inner diameter of the delivery pipe is larger than the exterior
diameter of the steam pipe, in order that a space a may be left around the
latter. E is the opening in the socket for the entrance of the water or other
liquid, communicating directly with the space a surrounding the steam pipe;
F is a check valve in the delivery pipe, situated a short distance above the.
socket C. The socket C and contiguous portions of the steam pipe and water
delivery pipes are arranged horizontally, but at a short distance from the
socket C, the steam pipe A and delivery pipe D have an upward direction.
To place the apparatus in an operative condition the lower part is submerged
to any depth above the check valve in the delivery pipe in the water or other
liquid in the well, reservoir, or other source of supply, and the upper end of the
steam pipe is connected with a boiler.
To set the apparatus in operation, steam is admitted through the pipe A by
opening the stop valve. The pressure of the steam quickly opens the check"
valve, and the steam meeting the water in the pipe D, drives it forward and
causes a vacuum to be formed in the lower part of the said pipe and in the
space a, a, and the water or other liquid rushing thereinto through the
opening E, is driven forward by the steam through the delivery pipe in a
continuous stream. When the steam is shut off the check valve closes and
retains the water or other liquid remaining in the pipe D above it, and the
steam remaining in the pipe A being soon condensed has its place supplied
by water or other liquid rising through the opening E, so that the apparatus
is immediately set in operation again by opening the stop valve B. By
providing a chamber G in the delivery pipe D much larger than the pipo

page_text: itself, so that a larger quantity of liquid is retained above the check valve
than could be retained in the pipe itself, the operation of delivering the
water is commenced instantaneously on the admission of steam to the appa-
ratus.
The apparatus may be used with great advantage in raising water from
mines, as it will work at any depth or at any distance from the boiler to
which steam can be conveyed, and will raise it to any height; it may be also
used as a substitute for a fire engine in extinguishing fires, or for other purposes
which require water to be ejected with considerable force, the issue from D
being very forcible when a high pressure of steam is used. Compressed air
may, as above indicated, be used in place of steam to effect the same purpose,
such air being admitted through the pipe A in the same manner as the steam
as above described.
Having now set forth the nature of the Invention of an improved appa-
ratus for raising and forcing water and other liquids, and explained the
manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that
under the above in part recited Letters Patent I claim, the combination of
the steam or air pipe A, the open socket C, and the delivery pipe D, with its
check valve F and chamber G, the whole operating substantially as and for
the purpose herein specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Newton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of October, in the year of our
.
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness,
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lane.
W. E. NEWTON. (L.S.)