AN IMPROVED PORTABLE PUMP
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of No. 11, Wellington
Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED PORTABLE PUMP."-A communication
from abroad by Jean Marie Elisabeth Achille Rives, Pharmacien
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Sealed the 21st January 1873, and dated the 3rd August 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward
Gedge at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 3rd August 1872.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED PORTABLE PUMP," a communication
to me from abroad by Jean Marie Elisabeth Achille Rives, Pharmacien
Major at the Military Hospital of Toulouse, Haute Garonne, France, to
be as follows:-
On reference to the accompanying Sheet of Drawing it will be seen that
this improved portable pump is composed of a four-wheeled carriage A,
provided with moveable shafts, two cross pieces, and four uprights B,
which are firmly upheld by the iron buttresses C. The pump barrel and

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
.
filed by the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 28th January 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD GEDGE, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County
of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said William Edward Gedge, Her special licence
that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Edward Gedge, 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
PORTABLE PUMP," a communication to me from abroad by Jean Marie
Elisabeth Achille Rives, Pharmacien Major at the Military Hospital of
Toulouse, Haute Garonne, France, upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, 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 William Edward Gedge, 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 :-
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page_text: provided with movable shafts, two cross pieces, and four uprights B,
which are firmly upheld by the iron buttresses C. The pump barrel
and the toothed wheels are fixed between these uprights, instead of being
as usual fastened against the sides of a well.
The suction tube T is of india-rubber or other suitable material, and
movable, it is screwed on to or unscrewed from the pump barrel with
great facility; when not in use it is placed upon the supports S, placed
in any suitable position on each side of the carriage. It will be easily
understood that by means of a single one of these machines and a few
wells sunk at intervals, a great extent of ground may be watered.
When it is desired to use this machine, the horse is harnessed to the
carriage and draws it to the well, he is then taken out of the shafts,
which are removed, being simply held by pins or keys, the suction pipe
is put into the well and screwed on to the pump barrel (this operation
occupying at the outside ten minutes), the horse is then harnessed to
the beam M of the pump and works it until complete irrigation of the
ground between this well and the next. The irrigation of this part
being effected, the hose is unscrewed, withdrawn from the well, hung
up on the carriage, the horse unharnessed from the beam M, put between
the shafts, and the machine is drawn to the next well for the same
operation, and so on.
The pump shown is but a suction and horse mill pump, but it might
as well be a lift and force pump, and be worked by steam, and although
invented specially for agricultural purposes, it might be used in other
circumstances, such as rural fires, and wherever a river or any kind of
watercourse is near.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of the said Invention,
communicated to me as aforesaid, I would have it understood that this
Invention consists not in the pump, properly so called, as this system
might be adapted to almost any pump, but in the mobility or loco-
mobility of this pump, and that what I claim as novel and secured to
-me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,―
Firstly. The use of a four-wheeled carriage, provided with movable
shafts, two cross pieces, and four uprights firmly upheld by iron
buttresses or supports, substantially as and for the purposes herein-before
set forth.
Secondly. The use of a pump barrel and toothed wheels when fixed

page_text: between uprights, substantially as herein before set forth, instead of
being, as usual, fixed against the sides of the well.
Thirdly. The use of a shifting india-rubber suction tube, which may
be screwed on to and unscrewed from the pump barrel with great facility,
and be carried, when not in use, upon supports placed on each side the
carriage, substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of January,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
W. E. GEDGE. (L.S.)