Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Raising Liquids and Obtaining Motive Power.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Jan., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 9th Sept., 1897-Accepted, 1st Jan., 1898
TIVO YIDIONAL DIMUITIVATION.
Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Raising Liquids
and Obtaining Motive Power.
I, JOSEPH CHARLES GELLY, of 118 Fenchurch Street, London, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in liquid raising apparatus, embodying
a straight or bended inlet pipe with a valve at the end, a distributing box having
a clack-valve attached to it, another box or receptacle having a lift valve and
elevation pipe attached to it, an outlet or descending pipe with a tap attached at
the end or other convenient part of it, and an air cushion chamber to avoid exces-
sive shock in 'the apparatus.
My invention is not only applicable for raising a portion of the liquid passing
through the apparatus, but it is also applicable for raising other liquids and to
produce power. For this latter purpose I attach at the elevation pipe a suitable
hydraulic engine to work an attached pump or any other suitable mechanism.
An important feature of my invention is that no syphonic action is used, the
apparatus works simply by the liquid flowing through it, that is entering at the
level of the liquid, and flowing out at a lower level, the outlet is placed as low
as possible. As the intake will always be full of water, to start the apparatus will
only be necessary to open the tap of the descending pipe. The clack valve is
normally held open by spring or weight, but is intermittently closed by the action
of the water such interruption causing an outflow at the lift valve into the air
cushion receptacle, and up into the elevation pipe.
Where the quantity of water is limited I attach to the end of the descending
pipe an hydraulic ram or turbine or other suitable hydraulic apparatus to raise
the water back to its source, or for motive power purposes.
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Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Raising Liquids
and Obtaining Motive Power.
I JOSEPH CHARLES GELLY of 118 Fenchurch Street London E.C. 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:
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Hydraulic rams as at present worked are fixed at a lower level than the feed

page_text: water and will not work except by a pressure of head water. This head water
gives a momentum to the water which is utilised intermittently against a plunger
valve to force up drawn in water as is well understood. This class of apparatus
is subject to objections. They must be fixed at a lower level than the feed water.
They are liable to be completely submerged and thus rendered unworkable. They
can only work with considerable head of water, and their efficiency is very low
in comparison to the quantity of water consumed, besides which the exhaust water
escapes without pressure and is consequently useless to attempt to obtain motive
power by.
By my invention all the above mentioned drawbacks are obviated. My appara-
tus can be fixed on a plane only just below the surface of the feed water, and
thus works without head water or pressure of head water, as it is sufficient for the
level of the feed water to only just cover the end of the intake pipe to prevent
the admission of air to it. In my apparatus a horizontal column of water is on
a plane only just below the surface of the feed, which column is intermittently
moved by the atmospheric pressure by a portion of the column near the front
running out at a lower level than the intake thereby causing a vacuum: When
the column of water is put in motion as described it closes a clack valve which
stops the outlet when the momentum imparted to the column of water rams the
front of the water through a valve opened by or after the closing of the clack
valve either by being connected to the clack valve, or by the pressure to the front
of the column of water, by this means a quantity of water is forced out of the
apparatus into a receptacle with air cushion, and from thence up an elevating
pipe or into a water engine if hydraulic power is desired. To enable the invention
to be properly understood I will proceed to describe the same with aid of accom-
panying drawings. Fig 1 illustrates a sectional elevation of the apparatus, fig 2
a cross section on line X Y, Fig 3 a slightly modified arrangement.
A, represents the primary or main water supply, B, the horizontally placed pipe,
the outer end of which is connected to a box C, within which is arranged a clack
valve D, communicating with a pendent pipe E; near the lower part of this
pipe is fitted any suitable kind of outlet valve (not shown in drawing) to be
operated by hand when it is desired to start or stop the apparatus. In front of
the box C, is another valve F, connected to a pivotted lever G, held within a
box H, upon the upper part of which is arranged an air cushion J, this valve F,
is controlled by the spring K, on the connecting rod L, one end of which is con-
nected to the top of the lever G, and the other end bears against a cross part M,
on the lever arms N; these lever arms are bent over and further connected to-
gether at the outer ends by a weighted cross piece O, to normally hold open the
valve D, the bottom ends of these levers N, are connected to a cross spindle P,
which passes through the box C, through stuffing boxes Q, on the outside. To
this cross spindle the clack valve D) is secured. R, elbow for the pipe to be
attached to to enable the forced out water to be elevated as high as the apparatus
is suitable for. The apparatus works as follows: Assume that the outlet valve
on the, pipe E, is open, and the water at the supply A, just covers the surface of
the inlet of the horizontal pipe B, the valve F, will be closed and the clack valve D,
will be open by the overbalancing of the lever arms N assisted by the weight 0,
the pipe B, being horizontal, the water will fill it, and on the column of water
reaching the inlet of the pipe E, will flow into it; this flowing of the water will
cause a vacuum which will cause the atmospheric pressure to act on the surface
of the water A, and only there, the column of water will flow with an increasing
velocity until it causes the clack valve D, to close and the valve F, to be opened
when the momentum of the column of water in the pipe B, rams the forward
portion of it through the valve F: when the movement of the water has stopped,
the water in the box II, is pressed back by the air cushion towards the valve F,
thereby shutting the same which is assisted by the spring K, when the clack
valve D, again opens, and the operation continues as before. Where the horizontal
column of water as in pipe B, is of considerable length several sets of the valve

page_text: apparatus may be employed in the pipe B. In fig 3 the arrangement is such that
the two valves D, and F, operate independently.
In this plan the valve F, is normally held closed by the action of the spring T,
on the spindle of the valve. In all other respects the apparatus is the same as
fig 1. I may further arrange at the outlet of pipe E, a turbine or other hydraulic
engine to be operated by the outlet of water, to give motive power for any desired
purpose, and may further arrange a turbine into which the water from the pipe R,
could be forced, the turbine being placed at such a position that the exhaust will
run back to the main feed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. An apparatus for raising liquid consisting of a horizontally placed feed
pipe B, with valve box at outer end having clack valve within box opening
towards feed opened by outside arms operated either by overbalancing weight, or
by connection with the valve F, pipe E, with outlet valve at bottom, and water
outlet R, all so arranged that the water flowing through the pipe E, forms a
vacuum and simultaneously causing the atmospheric pressure to act on the upper-
level of the main supply A, as described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
2. The combination of an apparatus as described in the preceding claim with
hydraulic engines to utilise the exhaust or ejected water for motive power pur-
poses.
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1. 1907
FREDERIC PRINCE
37 Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, London,
Agent for Applicant.