IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ARRANGEMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF PUMPS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Hamilton Beattie, Civil Engineer, of No. 11,
Dowgate Hill, London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
ARRANGEMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF PUMPS."-A communication from
abroad by Joseph Marks, Engineer, of Montreal, Canada.
Sealed the 20th December 1864, and dated the 26th July 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Hamilton Beattie
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th July 1864.
I, JOSEPH HAMILTON BEATTIE, Civil Engineer, of No. 11, Dowgate Hill,
London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE
MENTS IN THE ARRANGEMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF PUMPS," to be as follows:-
My improvements consist of a mode of constructing pumps so that the
same can be used as force or lift pumps, and at the same time dispense with
the common suction pipe, also with the common discharge pipe.
In my arrangement I make the connecting rod of the pump the discharge
pipe. The end of the tubular connecting rod is fitted with a valve at the
bottom so as to prevent the water passing down the pipe, but to give free
admission of water into the bottom of the tubular rod. The end of the tube
is inserted into the working barrel of the pump, which is placed below the

page_text: surface of the water in the well or cistern, and is provided with a valve at the
bottom to allow the water to pass into it. It is also arranged with a bush at
the top end fitting closely to the tubular rod, which acts as the plunger or
bucket of the pump. The top end of the tubular connecting rod or discharge
pipe is fitted with any convenient outlet for the water to pass out at. The
lever or driving wheel of the pump is also provided with a balance weight so
as to counterbalance the tubular connecting rod and its contained water. It is
readily arranged to suit a force or lifting pump, so that the pump will force
or lift more water with a given amount of power to work it than any other
pump now in use.
For lifting or forcing water a considerable height I insert in the hollow
connecting rod or discharge pipe a sufficient number of valves to answer the
required purpose.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Hamilton Beattie, in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 24th January 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
HAMILTON BEATTIE, Civil Engineer, of No. 11, Dowgate Hill, London, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Joseph Hamilton Beattie, Her special licence that I, the said
Joseph Hamilton Beattie, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Joseph Hamilton Beattie, my executors, admi-
nistrators, 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 THE ARRANGEMENT AND CONSTRUCTION
OF PUMPS," a communication to me from abroad by Joseph Marks, Engineer,
of Montreal, Canada, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Joseph Hamilton Beattie, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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

page_text: 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 Joseph Hamilton Beattie, 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 statement :-
My improvements consist of a mode of constructing pumps so that the
same can be used as force or lift pumps, and at the same time dispense
with the common suction pipe, also with the common discharge pipe.
In my arrangement. I make the connecting rod of the pump the discharge
pipe. The end of the tubular connecting rod is fitted with a valve at the
bottom so as to prevent the water passing down the pipe, but to give free
admission of water into the bottom of the tubular rod. The end of the tube
is inserted into the working barrel of the pump, which barrel is placed below
the surface of the water in the well or cistern, and is provided with a valve at
the bottom to allow the water to pass into it. It is also arranged with a bush
at the top end fitting closely to the tubular rod, which acts as the plunger or
bucket of the pump. The top end of the tubular connecting rod or discharge
pipe is fitted with any convenient outlet for the water to pass out at. The
lever or driving wheel of the pump is provided with a balance weight to
counterbalance the tubular connecting rod and its contained water. It is readily
arranged to 'suit'a.force or lifting pump, so that the pump will force or lift
more water with a given amount of power to work it than any other pump
now, in use.
For lifting or forcing water a considerable height, I insert in the hollow
connecting rod or discharge pipe a sufficient number of valves to answer the
required purpose.
By referring to the following description and the Drawing annexed the
nature and action of my improvements will be clearly understood.
The barrel C, C, C, C, is placed at the bottom of the well or cistern L, L,
L, L, or at some little distance below the water line D, D, and is fitted at
the top with a bush F, F, the same fitting close to the tubular rod A, A, A,
which works vertically up and down in the barrel C, C, C, C; this tubular rod
is fitted at the bottom with a valve B, which opens to allow the water to enter
the tubular rod when it is depressed, but closes to prevent the escape of water
when the tubular rod is raised. The barrel C, C, C, C, is also fitted at the
bottom with a valve E, similar to the valve B, but acting in an inverse
manner. M and M1 are stops to regulate the height to which the valves

page_text: are lifted; G is the discharge pipe of the tubular rod A, A, A; H, H, is a
lever attached to the tubular rod by the link K, and having the moveable
weight I, I, which counterbalances the tubular rod A, A, A.
The action is as follows:-When the tubular rod A, A, A, is raised by the
lever H, H, the valve E in the barrel C, C, C, C, admits the water into the
space between the valves B and E; when the tubular rod A, A, A, is
depressed the valve B opens and admits the water into the tubular rod
A, A, A, and the alternate raising and depressing continues until the water is
discharged by the discharge pipe G. The weight 1, I, on the lever H, H, is
placed so as to counterbalance the tubular rod A, A, A, with the water
contained in it. Where the tubular rod is of very great length, valves
similar to the valves B and E, can be placed inside, at different distances if
requisite or desired; also, if the tubular rod is of very small diameter clacks
can be used instead of the valves B and E. The pump can be made to force
water by moving the weights I, I, on the lever H, H, nearer the tubular rod
A, A, A, so that the counterpoise shall be disturbed, and by means of a pipe
or hose attached to the discharge pipe G the water may be forced the
required height. Instead of a lever, a driving wheel may be used. The
tubular rod is not intended to be of the precise size shewn in the Drawing, the
same being orly intended to shew the action.
I do not confine myself to the form of pump shewn, as the same may be
varied, and the tubular rod may be made longer or shorter, and of different
diameter as required; and different forms of valves may be used, though
acting in the manner described or similarly.
JOSEPH HAMILTON BEATTIE. (L.S.)