IMPROVE- MENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING AND FORCING WATER AND OTHER FLUIDS
Year: 1861

page_text: .. LETTERS PATENT to John Hathornthwaite Winder, of Sheffield, in the
County of York; Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Hathornthwaite
Winder at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 2nd April 1861.
I, JOHN HATHORNTHWAITE WINDER, of Sheffield, in the County of York,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING AND FORCING WATER AND OTHER
FLUIDS," to be as follows:-
The improvements consist in adaptation and combination of parts forming
apparatus for raising and forcing fluids.
The piston is formed to vibrate upon one edge as a joint or centre of motion
within a suitably formed chamber, which is thereby divided into two com-
partments, the rubbing surfaces of the piston being kept tight when required
by packing, which I sometimes keep in operation by the pressure of the fluid.
The fluid is caused to rise to each side of the piston alternately, through a
valve in a separate compartment below that in which the piston moves, and
the fluid received by the movement of the piston in one direction is discharged
as the piston vibrates in the opposite direction, and vice versa; the discharge
in each case being through a separate valve into a suitable chamber, thence to
be conducted by suitable passage or passages, as required, and by a like
movement taking place alternately in relation to each side of the piston, a
constant and regular discharge of water or other fluid is effected. In some
cases I only employ one valve to supply the piston in both motions.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Hathornthwaite Winder in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 2nd October 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HATHORNTHWAITE WINDER, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her beirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Hathornthwaite Winder, Her special licence that I, the said John
Hathornthwaite Winder, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said John Hathornthwaite Winder, my executors, administra-
tors, 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 MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING AND FORCING
WATER AND OTHER FLUIDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said John Hathornthwaite Winder, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Hathornthwaite Winder, 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 thereof, that is to say:
The improvements consist in an adaptation or combination of parts forming
apparatus for raising and forcing fluids.
But that the Invention may be fully understood I will proceed at once to
describe the Drawing annexed.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews a section, Figure 2 a side view, of apparatus for raising and
forcing water or other fluids according to my improvements..

page_text: as a joint or centre of motion within the chamber b, which is thereby divided
into two compartments 61, 6. The rubbing surfaces of the piston a are kept
tight when required by packing c, c, which may be kept in operation by the
pressure of the fluid or by the application of springs. The fluid is caused to
rise to each side 6 or 6 of the piston a alternately through one of the valves d,
each of which is in a separate compartment e, e, below that in which the
piston moves. When the apparatus is in operation it will be readily under-
stood that the fluid received by the movement of the piston a in one direction
will be discharged as the piston a vibrates in the opposite direction, and vicê
versa. The discharge of fluid in each case is through a separate valve f into
a chamber g, from which it is conducted by suitable passage or passages g' as
required. And by a like movement taking place alternately in relation to
each side of the piston a, a constant and regular discharge of water or other
fluid is effected. h, h, are openings closed by doors to facilitate access to the
valves d, d.
In some cases I only employ one valve d to supply the piston in both
motions.
Having thus described my Invention and the means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that I do not confine
myself to the precise details as shown and described; but what I do claim is,
the adaptation or combination of means for raising and forcing water and
other fluids, substantially as explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Hathornthwaite Winder, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
JOHN HATHORNTHWAITE WINDER. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above-
named John Hathornthwaite Winder in
the presence of
(L.S.) JN. B. BROWN,
One of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace
for the Borough of Sheffield.