A COMBINED PORTABLE ENGINE AND PUMP
Year: 1884

page_text: We, WILLIAM BROWN and CHARLES NEALE MAY of the firm of Brown and
May of Devizes in the County of Wilts Engineers and ARTHUR BUTLER of
8 Cleveland Road Castlehill Ealing in the County of Middlesex Engineer do
hereby declare the nature of our said Invention for "A COMBINED PORTABLE
ENGINE AND PUMP," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object to provide a combined portable Engine and
pump whereby the irrigation of land can be effected in a ready manner and by a
compact apparatus not liable to derangement.
The pump can also be removed and the Engine used as an ordinary portable
Engine.
According to the said Invention a rotary pump is fixed by bolting or like
fastening to a platform or support provided on the Engine and a shaft of the
Engine has a large pulley or pulleys or flywheels thereon over which a band or
bands pass to the pulley or pulleys of the pump. By undoing the bolts or
fastenings the pump can be readily detached and the Engine be used for any other
desired purpose.
J. HENRY JOHNSON,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the said William Brown
and Charles Neale May and Arthur Butler.

page_text: A. Combined Portable Engine and Pump.
We WILLIAM BROWN and CHARLES NEALE MAY of the firm of Brown and
May of Devizes in the County of Wilts Engineers and ARTHUR BUTLER of
8 Cleveland Road Castlehill Ealing in the County of Middlesex Engineer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention for "A COMBINED PORTABLE ENGINE AND
PUMP " and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This Invention has for its object to provide a combined portable Engine and
pump especially suited for enabling the irrigation of land to be effected but,
applicable to raising water generally in a ready manner and by a compact
apparatus not liable to derangement and easily transportable.
According to the said Invention a rotary or centrifugal pump is fixed by bolting
or like fastening to a platform or support provided on the Engine and a shaft of
the Engine has a large pulley or pullies or fly wheels thereon over which a band
or bands passes or pass on to the pulley or pullies of the pump. By undoing the
bolts or fastenings the pump can be readily detached and the Engine be used for
any other desired purpose to which it is applicable.
The accompanying drawing represents so much of a portable Engine as is
necessary to shew the combination of a pump therewith according to this
Invention.
A is the rotary or centrifugal pump which may be of any convenient construction
for the purpose. It is shewn as being fixed by bolting or otherwise to the
platform B provided on the engine for the reception of the said pump, the shaft
of which has pulleys A¹ A¹ over which pass bands C, C, driven by large pulleys or
fly wheels D D on the shaft d actuated from the cylinder or cylinders of the
engines, E is the inlet pipe of the pump and F is the discharge pipe which is led
to any suitable place where the water is to be discharged for irrigation or other
purpose. The engine may be used alone for any purpose for which it is applicable
without detaching the pump but if the Engine is to be used alone for any length
of time the pump can be readily unbolted or detached from the platform B or
other support by which it is attached to the engine. The invention therefore
provides an apparatus which obviates the inconvenience and expense of the special
and separate arrangements hitherto employed and it economizes time as the engine
and pump can be readily brought to and placed in any desired situation and be
put into operation immediately. The position of the pump enables the suction
and discharge pipes to be fixed at any desired angle. We do not limit ourselves to
driving the pump by two bands as shewn but we prefer it as it gives uniformity of
action and ensures equal and less wear of the bearings and should one band fail
the other will continue the action.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that
what we claim is
A portable Engine and a pump arranged and combined together substantially as
and for the purposes herein before described and explained with reference to the
accompanying drawing.