IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM MACHINERY AND PUMPS FOR LIFTING WATER FROM MINES AND OTHER PLACES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Carr, of Seghill, in the County of
Northumberland, Mining Engineer, and William Kyle Horsley,
of the same Place, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN STEAM MACHINERY AND PUMPS FOR LIFTING WATER FROM MINES
AND OTHER PLACES."
Sealed the 28th April 1854, and dated the 5th November 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Carr and
William Kyle Horsley at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 5th November 1853.
We, CHARLES CARR, of Seghill, in the County of Northumberland,
Mining Engineer, and WILLIAM KYLE HORSLEY, of the same place,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN STEAM MACHINERY AND PUMPS FOR LIFTING WATER PROM MINES
AND OTHER PLACES" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of a peculiar construction and combination of
the parts of steam engines and pumps used for lifting water from mines
and other places. In place of using a single steam cylinder of the size
required to obtain the requisite power, we employ two cylinders opening
into each other so that the steam acts equally and simultaneously on the
two pistons, the piston rods of which and the pump rod or spear are

page_text: connected by a common cross head, by which means the requisite power
can be obtained and applied more conveniently directly to the pumps by
reason of the steam cylinders coming over the pit or shaft, and yet they
comparatively cover but a small portion of the opening. The fly wheel
is weighted on one side so as to counterbalance the weight of the pump
spear or rod and working parts; and to lift water from deep mines the
pumps are worked by one continuous spear or rod.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Carr and William Kyle Horsley in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th May 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
CHARLES CARR, of Seghill, in the County of Northumberland, Mining
Engineer, and WILLIAM KYLE HORSLEY, of the same Place, Engineer,
send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, bý Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Charles Carr and William Kyle
Horsley, Her special licence that we, the said Charles Carr and
William Kyle Horsley, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said Charles Carr and William Carr Horsley,
our 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
IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM MACHINERY AND PUMPS FOR LIPTING WATER
FROM MINES AND OTHER PLACES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said Charles Carr and William Kyle Horsley,.or one of
.us, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the
hand and seal of one of us, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of.. the said. Invention, and in what manner the same was to-be

page_text: 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 we, the said Charles Carr and.-William
Kyle Horsley, do hereby declare, the nature of the said,' Invention,
and-in what manner the same is, to be performied, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof,
that is to say::
This Invention consists of a peculiar construction and combination
of the parts of steam engines and pumps used for lifting water from
mines and other places. In place of using a steam cylinder of the size
required to obtain the requisite power, we employ two cylinders opening
into each other; so that the steam acts equally and simultaneously on
the two pistons, the piston rods of which and the pump rod or spear
are connected by a common cross head, by which means the requisite
power caii, be obtained and applied more conveniently directly to the
pumps by reason of the steam cylinders coming over the pit or shaft,
and yet they comparatively cover but a small portion of the opening.
The fly wheel is weighted on one side so as to counterbalance the weight
of the pump spear or rod and working parts; and to lift water from
deep mines the pumps are worked by one continuous spear or rod.,
Having thus stated the nature of our Invention, we will proceed to
describe the manner of performing the same...
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, shews a vertical section of steam machinery and pumps for
raising water according to our Invention, where .no. fly wheel is used;
Figure 2, is a plan thereof; and Figure 3, is a side elevation of the
steam machinery, with a fly wheel weighted on one side, according to
our Invention, and part of a pump rod. A, A, are two steam cylinders
which communicate with each other by the passage a below the pistons;
B, is the steam nozel; C, the exhaust nozel; C', air passages in the cylin-
der covers; D, bed plate or base of cylinders; E, is the masonry support-
ing the bed plate; F, is the pump rod, which at its upper end is connected
with the cross head L. which cross head is also connected to the two
piston rods of the two steam cylinders. The pump rod is connected to

page_text: pumps.
the cross head which extends between the two piston rods as is shewn.
The pump rod in passing from the first pump to the next passes through
a stuffing box at S, as is shewn; G, is the highest pump of the highest
set of pumps; H, is the working barrel of the highest set of pumps;
I, is the clack pipe of the highest set of pumps, with a branch into the
standage; K, is the highest pump of the lower or next set of
Thus it will be seen steam is admitted by one valve to both cylinders
A, A, and acts simultaneously on the two pistons, and the steam is let
-out at the one exhaust valve. The up stroke is made by the steam, the
down stroke is made by the weight of the machinery, atmospheric air
being admitted through holes in the cylinder covers. The weight is
partly counterbalanced by weighting the fly wheel on one side, which in
the wheel shewn is done by increasing the depth of the rim on one side;
and the outgoing of the steam is regulated by a throttle valve on the
exhaust pipe.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, we would have it understood that we do not
.confine ourselves to the forms of the parts or details herein shown and
:described so long as the peculiar combination of parts is retained; but
what we claim is, the combination of steam machinery and pumps
herein described; and particularly we claim the Invention of working
by means of one rod or spear two or more pumps or sets of pumps in
the manner shown or in any other manner.
In witness whereof,, we, the said Charles Carr and William
Kyle Horsley, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
First day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four.
CHARLES CARR.
(L.S.)
Witness,
LUKE RAMSHAW,
Seghill.
WILLIAM KYLE HORSLEY. (L.S.)