A New or Improved Motive Power Apparatus.
Year: 1891

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Motive Power Apparatus.
I, SAMUEL JERMY of 295 Edgware Road, London W. Engineer 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 :-
My invention relates to a new or improved motive power apparatus, and has for
its object to actuate a water wheel in such a manner that when the apparatus is
started by filling up two pipes with water, the motion of the wheel will continue
automatically for a very considerable time.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of my improved
motive power apparatus and Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line x x of Fig. 1.
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My improved motive power apparatus consists of a water wheel W mounted on a
shaft carried by two uprights h h, the said shaft supporting likewise two gear
wheels ii one on each side of the water wheels W as clearly shown in Fig. 2.
These two wheels ii are used to transmit motion to any suitable driving gear and
may be replaced by pulleys. The inclined pipe or box a leads the water to the
vanes or brackets m . . . of the wheel W, this water ascending in the vertical
pipe which dips in a reservoir or tank e, until it reaches the box or union c. The
latter connects the two pipes or boxes a and b and is furnished at the top with a
valve d serving to fill the pipes a and b with water. The vertical pipe b is provided
with a tap el, and the inclined pipe a with a tap g. The wheel W turns within a
fixed outer shell or casing / provided with perforations n and into which the pipe a
is fixed while its drum k is furnished with vanes or brackets m
etc. The
water falling from the perforations n is caught by the inclined open box gutter or
trough which leads it back to the reservoir or tank e. The cycle is as follows:
The taps e' being closed and the reservoir e nearly filled with water, the valve d is
opened and water is poured in the union or box c until the latter and the two pipes a
and bare full. The valve d is now closed and the taps e¹, yg are opened and the
water of the pipe a falls by gravity i.e. owing to the inclination of the pipe a upon
the vanes and hence sets the water-wheel W in motion. The dead water drops
through the perforations n of the outer casing of the wheel and is led by the
trough or conduit f back into the reservoir e. The outflow of water from the pipe a
forms a vacuum towards the valve end of the said pipe a and causes water to ascend
in the pipe and box c and to run down the pipe a upon the vanes m, thus a constant
flow is established and the water wheel is kept in motion, the loss of water due to
evaporation or other causes being replaced with the aid of the valve d when the
water wheel is required to be stopped and the tap g is closed. The pipe a should
be about three times as long as the pipe is high.
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 :-
The improved motive power apparatus comprising a water wheel W provided
with a fixed perforated outer casing and inclined pipe a leading to the said wheel
and to a box or union c furnished with a valve d and connecting the pipe a with
the vertical pipe 6 dipping in a tank e to which the water dropping through the
perforations of the casing aforesaid is led back by a trough or gutter substantially
as described and shown, and for the purpose set forth.
Deted this 12th day of March 1901
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.