AN IMPROVED PUMP, APPLICABLE TO MINES, WELLS, SHIPS, FOUNTAINS, AND DOMESTIC PURPOSES, AND RAISING MELTED METALS IN FOUNDARIES, SO CONSTRUCTED THAT IT CANNOT LOSE WATER, DRAW GRIT, DRAW AIR, OR FREEZE
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Wilson, of No. 3, Albert Place, High Street,
Stratford, in the Parish of West Ham, in the County of Essex, for thé
Invention of "AN IMPROVED PUMP, APPLICABLE TO MINES, WELLS, SHIPS,
FOUNTAINS, AND DOMESTIC PURPOSES, AND RAISING MELTED METALS IN
FOUNDARIES, SO CONSTRUCTED THAT IT CANNOT LOSE WATER, DRAW GRIT,
DRAW AIR, OR FREEZE."
Sealed the 14th November 1854, and dated the 8th June 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Wilson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 8th
June 1854.
I, JOHN WILSON, of No. 3, Albert Place, High Street, Stratford, in the
Parish of West Ham, in the County of Essex, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED PUMP, APPLICABLE TO MINES, WELLS,
SHIPS, FOUNTAINS, AND DOMESTIC PURPOSES, AND RAISING MELTED METALS IN
FOUNDARIES, EO CONSTRUCTED THAT IT CANNOT LOSE WATER, DRAW GRIT, DRAW
AIR, OR FREEZE," to be as follows:-
To be constructed of wood, lead, brass, copper, iron, platina, zinc, gutta
percha, leather, felt, or every metal or material now in use, or applicable for
the same purpose; to consist of a working barrel or cylinder, or barrels or
cylinders, without sucktion pipes or stuffing boxes, to consist of a plunger, with a
hole through the same, so constructed that the water, fluids, or metals may pass
through into the barrel of their own gravity; the working rod to pass through

page_text: the top of the plunger, with a valve clack attached thereto working in the
plunger, will raise the water to any height without the usul friction, as in other
pumps; the pump to stand in the water always full cannot lose water, and
having no suction, cannot draw grit, draw air, or freeze; the pipe or rising
main, to consist of one or more valves, and air vessel, as in common pumps,
will raise water from the sea, without attracting the floating putrid matter on
the surface, or any filthy sediment at the bottom of the water.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Wilson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
6th December 1854..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOIN
WILSON, of No. 3, Albert Place, High Street, Stratford, in the Parisli of
West Ham, in the County of Essex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Wilson, Her special licence that I, the said John Wilson, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others ás I, the said John
Wilson, my executors, 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 "AN IMPROVED PUMP, APPLICABLE TO
MINES, WELLS, SHIPS, FOUNTAINS, AND DOMESTIC PURPOSES, AND RAISING MELTED
METALS IN FOUNDRIES, 80 CONSTRUCTED THAT IT CANNOT LOSE WATER, DRAW GRIT,
DRAW AIR, OR FREEZE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
John Wilson, 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 performed, 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 John Wilson, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
meut:-

page_text: My said Invention consists in a novel arrangement of force pumps, capable
of being constructed of the usual metals and materials employed for such
machines, and applicable for a variety of useful purposes for which, the same
are usually required; and as in the working of my improved pump the barrel
or barrels have to be submerged in the liquid to be raised, it is evident that
being sunk to a sufficient depth in water they will escape the ordinary risks, of
stoppage from air, grit, or frost.
For the better understanding of my said improvements in the construction
of pumps, I will now proceed to give a description thereof in detail, reference
being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, in which the same letters apply
to like nasts throughout
rod and valve; and Figure 2 is a sectional elevation of my improvement
applied as a double force pump.
A, B, C, and A', B', C', are two pump barrels, attached by bolts and nuts
to the foundation plate D, E, and may, when required, have a cistern below,
common to both barrels, and communicating therewith by apertures in the
bottom of each barrel, to relieve the same of any sand or other useless accu-
mulation from foul water. F, G, H, is an air vessel, from which rises a pipe
or main I, F, J, of the usual construction, by which to convey off the water in
a continuous supply. At J is a small cock or valve, with a weighted lever
handle f, which can be operated from a distance by a rod or chain g. The
pump barrels have their pistons or plungers K, K', bored through centrally at
a, b, a', b', and are attached by connecting arms c, c, c', c¹, to the solid metal
collars d, ', which are bored and fitted so as to slide steadily up and down on.
the end of each piston rod L, L', but detained from sliding off by the circular
metal discs e, e, screwed on their lower ends, and which act the part of the
common pump valves at each stroke of the piston rods. The disc or valve e is
shown in the act of rising, the plunger aperture a being therefore open; and
the disc or valve e¹ is shown approaching its state of lowest descent, with the
plunger aperture a' closed, thus depressing the air chamber ball valve G, but
raising its other ball valve II, the barrel A being in the act of receiving,
and A¹ forcing water. The whole of this arrangement of pump barrels may
be sunk to any desirable depth in the water or other liquid to be raised,
and must always be sufficiently immersed to allow the easy flow of the liquid
into each barrel A, A', the re-supply of the pump barrels depending on
gravity.

page_text: Having thus fully described the several parts of my said improved pump, I
would here observe that I do not limit myself to the materials of which the
same is to be constructed, or any particular dimensions or form of the several
parts thereof, which are capable of being considerably modified, according as
the same may have to be arranged for mines, wells, ships, fountains, fire
engines, and like purposes, or when manufactured suitably for raising mercury
or molten metals; and I do declare that what I claim as my Invention is,
namely, the improved pump for raising liquids or suitable molten metals, as
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Wilson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord
1854.