Improved Apparatus or Pump for Lifting Water, Muddy or other- wise, or any other Fluid or Water Mixed with Sand or other Gritty Material.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Aug., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 24th Apr., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 4th Aug., 1888
Improved Apparatus or Pump for Lifting Water, Muddy or other-
wise, or any other Fluid or Water Mixed with Sand or other
Gritty Material.
I JOHN HURST Clock & Watch Maker of Higham Fold Ashton-under-Lyne in the
County of Lancashire do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
A simple and reliable machine for raising Water & other Liquids to any desirable
elevation, and consists of a tube with a valve or clack or valves or clacks fixed in a
suitable frame and by an oscillating or by a recurring up & down motion, will force
water to a very considerable height and being free from piston is not liable to choke
or get out of order and owing to its simplicity of construction is easily repaired in
case of any accident the apparatus or machine consists simply of a straight tube, of
tin, iron copper or other suitable material, and can be made of any desirable length,
the said tube contains at its lower extremity a Ball & Socket valve, or a clack valve
or any other form of valve, but preferably a Ball and Socket, or as sometimes called
a Ball and Seat and hereafter will be spoken of as such, the said tube to be mounted
in any convenient way so as to allow of a free up and down motion. The Tube or
machine contains no Piston but acts simply by means of a rapid or quick up and down
motion, the downward motion causes the water or other liquid to lift the valve and at
the same time causes a quantity of water or other liquid, corresponding to the quantity
admitted by, the valve to the tube or machine to flow over at the top, into any vessel
or other receptacle.
Having now described the nature of my said invention I declare that what I
claim is
A machine consisting simply of a straight tube with valve at bottom and without
piston, to be worked with a quick up and down motion for raising water or other
liquid.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus or Pump for Lifting Water, Muddy or other-
wise, or any other Fluid or Water Mixed with Sand or other
Gritty Material.
I, JOHN HURST, Clock & Watch Maker of Higham Fold, Ashton under Lyne in
the County of Lancaster do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
A simple & reliable machine for raising Water, or other liquids to any desirable
elevation, and consists of a tube A with a valve B or clack, or valves or clacks
inserted in the lower part of such tube, and such tube to be fixed in any convenient
or suitable frame or support, and by an oscillating, or recurring up and down motion
will force water to a very considerable height, and being without piston is not liable
to choke or get out of order, and owing to its great simplicity of construction is
easily repaired in case of any accident.
The apparatus or machine consists simply of a straight tube of tin, iron, copper, or
any other material, and can be made of any desirable length, the said tube A contains
at its lower extremity a Ball & Socket B or other kind of valve, but preferably a Ball
& Socket, or as sometimes called a Ball & Seat, the said tube to be mounted in any
convenient way so as to allow a free up and down motion, the downward motion causes
the water, or other liquid to lift the valve, allowing the water to rush in, and at the
same time cause a quantity of the water or other liquid, corresponding to the quantity
admitted by the valve to the tube or machine, to flow over at the top Cor other outlet
in to any receptacle contrived to receive it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
The raising of water or other liquid, dirty or otherwise to any desired height, by
means of a simple tube, without any piston or substitute for such, but with simply a
valve or valves at the lower part of such tube, the same tube to be worked by an up
and down motion.
Dated this 18th day of Anril 1888