improvements Connected with Pneumatic Pumps for Transferring Paper, Money, and other Articles from one Place to another.
Year: 1885

page_text: improvements Connected with Pneumatic Pumps for Transferring
Paper, Money, and other Articles from one Place to another.
I, CHARLES FREDERICK COOKE of the firm of Messrs T. Cooke and Sons, Opticians
and Engineers of Buckingham Works, Bishophill York, in the County of York do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS CONNECTED WITH
PNEUMATIC PUMPS FOR TRANSFERRING PAPER, MONEY, AND OTHER ARTICLES FROM
ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER to be as follows:-
"
My Invention has reference to apparatus to be employed for quickly transferring
paper, money, and other articles from one place to another through a tube, such
apparatus being specially adapted for use in telegraph offices for forwarding tele-
graphic messages from one room to another, and for use in offices, warehouses, and
shops where coins and other articles can be sent from one part of the room to
another.
For the purpose of carrying out my invention I arrange that the apparatus shall
be able to either blow the articles through the tube by a blast of air, or draw them
through by suction, and for this purpose I employ any ordinary form of air pump,
or a special pump of two cylinders and connect therewith two, four, or other
suitable number of stationary valves, and a corresponding number of moveable
port holes, formed in a conical plug working in a conical hole; or the said ports
may be formed in any other convenient manner.
The conduit pipe through which the message or coin passes is in communication
with the conical socket and consequently with the ports in the plug, therefore
when an article is required to be blown through the tube, the ports are moved by
a handle or other suitable means to a position opposite and in communication with
the blow valves which are stationary, and on operating the pump which can be
effected either by manual or other motive power the articles placed in the tube
will be blown through to the other end of the said pipe and transferred thereby to
some other part of the building, but when any article is required to be brought
back through the tube, the other port holes are moved opposite and in communi-
cation with the suction valves, and on the pump being actuated, the current of air
is reversed, and the article is made to return.

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Paper, Money, and other Articles from one Place to another.
I, CHARLES FREDERICK COOKE of the firm of Mess T. Cooke and Sons, Opticians
and Engineers of Buckingham Works, Bishophill York, in the County of York, do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS CONNECTED WITH
PNEUMATIC PUMPS FOR TRANSFERRING PAPER, MONEY AND OTHER ARTICLES FROM
ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
"
My invention has reference to apparatus to be employed for quickly transferring
paper, money and other articles from one place to another through a tube, such
apparatus being specially adapted for use in telegraph offices for forwarding
telegraph messages from one room to another, and for use in offices, warehouses,
and shops where coins, and other articles can be sent from one part of the room to
another.
For the purpose of carrying out my invention I arrange that the apparatus shall
be able to either blow the articles through the tube by a blast of air or draw
them through by suction and for this purpose I employ any ordinary form of air
pump, or a special pump of two cylinders and connect therewith two, four, or other
suitable number of stationary valves, and a corresponding number of moveable
port holes formed in a conical plug working in a conical hole; or the said ports
may be formed in any other convenient manner.
The conduit pipe through which the message or coin passes is in communication
with the conical socket, and consequently with the ports in the plug, therefore
when an article is required to be blown through the tube, the ports are moved by
a handle or other suitable means to a position opposite and in communication with
the blow valves which are stationary, and on operating the pump which can be
effected either by manual or other motive power, the articles placed in the tube
will be blown through to the other end of the said pipe and transferred thereby
to some other part of the building, but when any article is required to be brought
back through the tube the other port holes are moved opposite and in communi-
cation with the suction valves, and on the pump being actuated, the current of air
is reversed, and the article is made to return.
Such being the nature and object of my invention I will now proceed to describe
the same more fully, and for that purpose make reference to the accompanying
Sheet of drawings illustrative thereof.
Fig. 1 is section of the apparatus, and Fig. 2 front view thereof. A is a double
acting cylinder provided with piston B, and piston rod C, the top of which is
connected to lever D, hinged at E to the bracket F.
On one side of the cylinder are four hinged clack valves G, Œ¹ and H, H¹ the
two former being blow valves and the two latter suction valves. I is a conical
socket having four ways or passages therein, and into this socket is a conical plug J,
also having four ways or ports therein L, L' and M, M¹ the former being in
connection with the blow valves, and the latter in connection with the suction

page_text: valves. The two outlet or blow valves G, G' receiving air from the outside through
the top of the cover a at point b and the exhaust or suction ports M, M¹ receiving
air by suction from the dispatch tube N, the said air entering the exhaust
ports from an opening made in the bottom of the plug with which they are in
communication.
The plug J is kept in its socket I by a plate P, the said plug being capable of
oscillating by means of handle R one quarter of a revolution either backward or
forward for the purpose of placing the ports opposite the several passages in
communication with the several valves.
The modus operandi is as follows,
When about to suck or draw a piece of paper or coins down the dispatch tube N
the suction ports M and M² are placed opposite the passages in connection with the
suction valves H and H. The lever D is then lowered and the piston forced down
the cylinder by which means the paper or coin will be brought to the bottom of
the dispatch tube N, the air brought down the tube escaping through the blow off
ports L, L' and escape out at point b under the cover a.
When it is necessary to blow a piece of paper or some coins up the dispatch tube
they are placed into a suitable pocket in the said tube and the position of the
ports in the plug J reversed, so that the ports L L' are placed opposite the passages
in communication with the blow valves G and G the lever D is again operated
and the piston caused to descend when the air coming in from the outside at point b
is blown up the dispatch tube, in which case the paper or coins would be sent to
the opposite end of the tube N.
Having now described my invention, and the manner in which the same is to be
performed, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to any number
of ports or valves, nor to any particular arrangement of the same, as this may be
varied without departing from my invention, what therefore I claim is ;
In pneumatic pumps the employment of stationary hinged valves in combination
with moveable ports arranged in manner substantially as herein set forth and shewn
in the Drawings.
Dated thin both T1000