Improvements in and connected with Apparatus for Raising Water and other Liquids from Wells and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1899-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Apparatus for Raising Water
and other Liquids from Wells and the like.
I, LOUIS JONET, of Raismes (Nord), in the Republic of France, Contractor, 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:-
This invention for improvements in and connected with apparatus for raising
water and other liquids from wells and the like relates to apparatus for drawing
liquids from considerable depths, wherein a bucket is lowered into the liquid to
fill it and after it is filled is drawn up to the top of the well; and has for its object
to provide an inexpensive and efficient apparatus of this class for raising liquids
from any depth and delivering it as from a pump, to provide improved means for
controlling the lowering of the bucket, to facilitate the erection of the apparatus
over wells, water courses or springs, and to prevent any body from falling down
the shaft into the water.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings, Fig. 1 is an elevation of
apparatus for raising liquids, constructed according to this invention. Fig. 2 is
a sectional elevation taken at right angles to Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a plan of Fig. 1 with
the upper part removed, and Fig. 4 is a sectional plan taken at Fig. 2.
A metal base plate a formed with a central opening 6 surrounded by an upwardly
directed ring or flange c cast in the base plate, is surmounted by a casing d which
fits round the ring c and is thereby held in position and prevented from moving
laterally, being also if necessary bolted to the ring. The top or dome of the
casing is removable and fixed in position by a bayonet joint. Mounted in bear-
ings e in the upper part of the casing d is a horizontal shaft / carrying a winding
drum g fixed at or near the centre of the shaft. A thin wire rope h attached by one
end to the drum is connected at its other end through a ring and shackle i with
the bucket j.
The shaft is rotated to wind the rope on the drum and raise the bucket j by
means of a crank or handle j¹ and in order to prevent any possibility of accident
in case the crank handle is let go when raising the bucket, a ratchet wheel k is
fixed on the shaft f and a pawl pivotted on the casing in a convenient position so
that it can be readily thrown by hand into gear with the ratchet wheel whilst the
bucket is being raised and thrown out of gear during the lowering of the bucket.
A brake drum m is also fixed on shaft f and operated upon by a block or shoe n
applied thereto through rods n¹ by a hand lever o pivotted at one end in the
interior of the casing d and passing out through a slot. A tilting stop
rivetted or otherwise secured in the casing d and beneath the stop is a
funnel a leading to the exterior of the casing d and terminating in a spout q¹.
receiving
One or more openings closed by doors are formed in the casing for facilitating
nspection of the interior parts, but if repairs or re-adjustment to any of the
parts are necessary the top of the casing is taken off.
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It will be seen that the casing entirely covers the top of the well so that it is
mpossible for any bodies to accidentally fall in.

page_text: In the operation of drawing liquid the pawl k is first thrown out of gear with
the ratchet wheel j and the crank handle left free so that the bucket commences
to descend by gravity, its speed of descent being regulated by pressing slightly on
lever o and thus applying the brake block n to the brake drum m.
When the bucket reaches the liquid it descends therein and fills, the pawl 7
is then put into gear with the ratchet wheel and the crank handle turned
until the full bucket is drawn up and reaches the top, where coming against the
stop it is tilted automatically emptying its contents into the funnel beneath
which a vessel for receiving the liquid is placed.
From the foregoing it will be seen that this apparatus will raise liquids from
any depth without the expenditure of any great power and that the length of the
cable only need be varied according to the varying depth of the liquid to be raised.
The expenditure of power is the same whatever the depth may be, for it- is
only increased, in the case of the liquid being at a great depth, by the weight of the
cable which is quite insignificant.
The apparatus being entirely of metal cannot deteriorate on account of the
temperature and the parts are easily replaced without skilled assistance.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is;-
1. In apparatus for raising water or liquids the combination with a casing com-
pletely covering the apparatus, of a winding drum mounted inside the casing, a
bucket suspended from the drum, of means for tilting the bucket automatically,
and a funnel and delivery spout for receiving and delivering the water discharged
from the bucket the whole constructed and arranged substantially as described.
2. In apparatus for raising water or liquids, the combination with the bucket
and the drum from which the bucket is suspended, of brake mechanism con-
trolling the lowering of the bucket, and ratchet mechanism for preventing the
drum slipping back when the bucket is being raised, substantially as described.
3. The improved apparatus for raising water and other liquids from wells and
the like, substantially as described with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 1st day of February 1899.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.