AN IMPROVED HORIZONTAL PUMP
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Laurent Luçon and Zoé Peigné Widow Kern,
of Nantes, and of 37, Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, in the
Empire of France, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED HORIZONTAL
PUMP."
Sealed the 9th August 1870, and dated the 17th February 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Laurent Luçon and
Zoé Peigné Widow Kern at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 17th February 1870.
We, LAURENT LUÇON and ZOÉ PEIGNÉ Widow KERN, of Nantes,
and of 37, Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, in the Empire of France,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
HORIZONTAL PUMP," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in an improved horizontal double suction and
force pump with treadles.
The construction of our pump is illustrated on the annexed Drawing,
A, B, indicating the horizontal pump barrel, which has a suction and a
force pipe at each end; C, piston rod working in pump barrel; D, E,

page_text: suction pipes uniting into a single descending pipe by means of valve.
boxes; F, G, force pipes uniting into a single delivery pipe; H, I, lever
worked by the two treadles L, M; K, arm of lever H, I, alternately
pulling and pushing piston rod C; L, right treadle lifting end I of lever
by lowering that H; M, left treadle producing contrary effect; N, axle
of treadles; O, pump handle producing same effect as treadles but with
ordinary laborious hand labour.
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th August 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, LAURENT
LUÇON and ZOE PEIGNÉ Widow KERN, of Nantes, and of 37, Boulevard
Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, in the Empire of France, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the
thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Laurent Luçon and Zoé
Peigné Widow Kern, Her special licence that we, the said Laurent
Luçon and Zoé Peigné Widow Kern, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Laurent Luçon and Zoé
Peigné Widow Kern, our 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 "Ax IMPROVED HORIZONTAL PUMP," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Laurent Luçon and Zoé Peigné
Widow Kern, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Laurent Luçon and Zoé Peigné
Widow Kern, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our Invention consists in an improved horizontal double suction and
force pump with treadles.
The construction of our pump is illustrated on the annexed Sheet of
Drawing forming part of this Specification, A, B, indicating the hori
zontal pump barrel, which has a suction and a force pipe at each end;
C, piston rod working in pump barrel; D, E, suction pipes uniting into
a single descending pipe by means of two clack valve boxes; F, G,
force pipes uniting into a single delivery pipe; H, I, lever worked by
the two treadles L, M; K, arm of lever H, I, alternately pulling and
pushing piston rod C; L, right treadle serving to uplift end I of lever,
thereby lowering the end H; M, left treadle producing contrary effect;
N, axle of treadles; O, pump handle producing same effect as treadle,
but with the ordinary laborious hand labour.
The distinctive characteristics of our improved horizontal pump arc,-
Firstly. That it has but one piston and one very short pump barrel.
Secondly. The double suction and double forcing by a single piston,
cach stroke of which sucks and forces at the same time.
Thirdly. The application of the treadles, whereby great power may be
exerted with little fatigue, inasmuch that it is only necessary to stand
alternately first on one foot and then on the other to move the piston by
means of the T piece of which each treadle uplifts one end, causing its
lower branch to move the piston from right to left, and from left to right
alternately.
In witness whereof, we, the said Laurent Luçon and Zoé Peigné
Widow Kern, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighth
day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
LAURENT LUÇON.
(L.S.)
ZOÉ PEIGNÉ VE. KERN. (L.S.)