A NEW SYSTEM OF MOTOR MOVED BY WEIGHT
Year: 1872

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Bernard Valmy Benquet at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th November 1872.
I, BERNARD VALMY BENQUET, of Buzet, Department of Lot et
Garonne, in the Republic of France, Gentleman, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "A NEW SYSTEM OF MOTOR MOVED BY
WEIGHT," to be as follows:-
1º. A machine in motion is intended to overcome certain resistances
designated.
1º. Useful resistances, or motive power, or motive forces.
2º. Passive forces, or friction, or working resistance, or resisting forces.
Therefore in order that the machine may be of value, it is necessary.
that the motive power should be equal to the useful working, increased
by that necessary to overcome the passive resistances..
2º. Gravity is the designation of the general cause giving bodies a
tendency to fall towards the earth, and which determines this move-
ment when bodies are left to themselves.

page_text: The motor or motive power engine by solid weight, the subject of my
Invention, is of such simplicity that its movement and its motive and
resisting power will be readily realized upon reference to the following
description and accompanying Drawing.
3°. The cupped or "Noria" band E, which carries up, the weight.
The value of these three pieces, which constitute the main idea of the 1
motor, will be at once apparent, in fact.
1°. The weight ball B placed on a polished surface of an inclination.
of 2 inches in 40 inches will necessarily roll towards the base.
2°. The bucket or driving wheel D. under the pressure of the solid
and free weight must turn as it would under free liquid pressure of 1
equal weight.
3°. The band furnished with cups or pockets which carries up the ball
(weight) acts as does that which raises corn and flour from floor to floor
in mills worked by the hydraulic bucket wheel, and as the "Noria"
of dredging machines, the buckets of which gather up, or so to say, 2
extract from the beds of rivers sand and stones opposing considerable
resistance to their action.
I will take for example a mill. Here we find water which by its free
liquid weight compels the hydraulic wheel to turn and to overcome
both useful and passive resistances. In fact I have every day under my 2
eyes an hydraulic wheel of from 4 to 5 yards in diameter, receiving on
a fourth of its circumference a liquid weight of about 160 lbs. giving
movement either to two pair of mill stones, or to a pair of mill stones,
a bolter, a winnower, three "Norias," and a sack hoist.
Now if this hydraulic wheel can overcome the useful and the passive 3
resistances so as to move and set working all these five machines at
once, my driving wheel moved by solid and free weight will set
working the "Noria," which raises the weight, plus the machine, which
I intend to drive.

page_text: If it be objected that the balls (weight) might by their too great
weight in the cups of the "Noria" increase the passive resistance or
friction, and annul the motive power, the reply is, that the number of
balls to be raised at once by the "Noria” may be reduced; all that is
required is to put a sufficient number of balls into the upper receiver,
that is to say, ten or twenty times as many as will descend and remount
in a minute. This motive-power engine may be used in every com-
bination. It will answer for nearly all power, and for nearly all work.

page_text: diameter, to 5 yards and upwards. The buckets vary also, in size
according to that of the balls. (weight). It is therefore this driving
wheel which having in turning received a ball (weight) in each bucket,
and resting on a same axle F as do the two other wheels G and H, gives
the motion, as may be seen on the Drawing.
G, wheel with band or teeth according to the machine to be driven.
The driving wheel D causes this wheel to turn, it being on the same
axle (see Drawing).
H, wheel with band driving wheel I, which itself drives the two
wheels J and J¹, on which turns the endless band with cups E. The
wheel H is also on the same axle as that of the driving wheel.
I, wheel actuated by wheel H and driving wheel J, which is on the
same axle.
E
J, wheel supporting the band with cups E. Below this wheel is
placed the upper receiver or reservoir A, into which each cup on 1
reaching the top lets fall its ball (weight).
J', wheel supporting in conjunction with the wheel J the band with
cups E; it is so set in relation to the pipe of the lower receiver K that
each cup in passing receives a ball (weight) and carries it to the upper
receiver A.
K, lower receiver boxing in the lower part of the driving wheel D in
order that the balls (weight) may not fall to the ground. This receiver
has also an inner slope of 2 inches in 39, and its pipe L is also made zig-
zag to moderate the rolling of the balls, so that they may only arrive
one at a time as in the upper receiver A.
M, frame of simple construction which may be of wood or of wrought.
or cast iron. The entire motive-power engine, framing, and wheels may
be made of wrought or cast iron.
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