IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING LIQUIDS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Ursin Bastier, of Gower Street, in the County
of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR RAISING LIQUIDS."
Sealed the 10th April 1866, and dated the 12th October 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jean Ursin Bastier at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th October 1865.
I, JEAN URSIN BASTIER, of Gower Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING LIQUIDs," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a former Invention of mine known as
"Bastier's Chain Pump," for which Letters Patent were granted to
Antonio Pelez, 1st April 1858, No. 692.
My present improvements consist, first, in making the pulley over
which the chain passes at the top with cogs, teeth, or projections to take
hold of the links of the chain, and with three or other convenient number
of recesses or cavities at the same distance apart as the discs carried by
the chain, which recesses or cavities receive the discs as they pass over the
pulley. The cogs, teeth, or projections are held between two plates
secured to each other by bolts, so that when the teeth are worn out the
plates and teeth may be readily removed and replaced by others.
Second, in making each link of the chain with a tie-piece in the middle,
in order that it may be the better held by the projections of the pulley:

page_text: Third, in forming the chain in lengths of about a yard, more or less,
and in connecting the end of each length to a plate running vertically
through the disc by means of a pin and nut, which pin is passed through
the plate and through the two sides of the link.
Fourth, in forming the tube or column in which the liquid is to be
raised with a contracted part about nine feet in length, more or less, at
about every fifty yards, in order that the discs, in passing through such
contracted parts, may produce a sucking action. I form the tube by
preference of cast iron, enamelled both inside and outside.
Fifth, in constructing the discs as follows: -Two metal washers are
secured by pins or otherwise to the vertical plate before mentioned, and
hold between them three india-rubber washers, the middle washer of which
is of larger diameter than the other two, while the bottom washer is
thicker than the top one, in order that it may raise the edges of the
middle washer after it has passed through each contracted part of the
tube.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Jean Ursin Bastier in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 12th April 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEAN
URSIN BASTIER, of Gower Street, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent bearing date the Twelfth day of October, in the year of
'our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth
year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Jean Ursin Bastier, Her special licence that I, the
said Jean Ursin Bastier, my executors, administrators and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Jean Ursin Bastier, my executors, administrators, and
-assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time,
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
-Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING LIQUIDS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Jean Ursin Bastier, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and

page_text: ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal,
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jean Ursin Bastier, do hereby declare.
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the.
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to a former Invention of mine known as "Bastier's.
Chain Pump," for which Letters Patent were granted to Antonio Pelez,
1st April 1858, No. 692.
My present improvements consist, first, in making the. pulley over,
which the chain passes at the top, with cogs, teeth, or projections to take
hold of the links of the chain, and with three or other convenient number.
of recesses or cavities at the same distance apart as the discs carried by.
the chain, which recesses or cavities receive the discs as they pass over
the pulley. The cogs, teeth, or projections are held between two plates.
secured to each other by bolts, so that, when the teeth are worn out the
plates and teeth may be readily removed and replaced by others.
Second, in making each link of the chain with a tie-piece in the middle,
in order that it may be the better held by the projections of the pulley.
Third, in forming the chain in lengths of about a yard, more or less,
and in connecting the end of each length to a plate running vertically
through the disc by means of a pin and nut, which pin is passed through
the plate and through the two sides of the link.
Fourth, in forming the tube or column in which the liquid is to be:
raised with a contracted part about nine feet in length, more or less, at
about every 50 yards, in order that the discs in passing through such:
contracted parts may produce a sucking action. I form the tube by
preference of cast iron enamelled both inside and outside.
Fifth, in constructing the discs as follows:-Two metal washers are secured:
by. pins or otherwise to the vertical plate before mentioned, and hold:
between them three india-rubber washers, the middle washer of which is:
of larger diameter than the other two, while the bottom washer is thicker
than the top one, in order that it may raise the edges of the middle washer
after it has passed through each contracted part of the tube.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a front elevation, Figure 2 a
side elevation; both partly in section, of a chain pump constructed.

page_text: according to my present improvements; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged. view of
one of the discs detached.
The apparatus consists of a cast-iron framing A formed of two A-shaped
standards united by transverse tie rods. The framing is placed over the
mouth of the well, and the upper part of each standard is fitted with
bearings to carry the horizontal shaft B. On one of the projecting ends.
of this shaft is keyed the driving pulley C, and at the opposite extremity.
the fly wheel D. At the centre of the shaft B a chain pulley. E. is keyed.
The pulley is formed with a series of cogs, teeth, or projections F, so
arranged that the several apertures in each link of the water-lifting chain
will be caught and sustained by these teeth, and thus be prevented from
slipping or sliding when the pump is in rapid motion. The teeth Fare
cast upon or held between plates. These plates are placed at the sides of
the pulley E, and fixed to each other by bolts and nuts, and they are by
preference formed in sections, so that when any of the teeth are worn the
section carrying such worn teeth may be readily removed. The periphery
of the pulley has also formed in it two or more cavities or recesses G, to
receive the discs that are arranged at intervals on the lifting chain; these
recesses are formed at such a distance apart that the discs enter them as the
pulley rotates. The links of the lifting chain H are each formed with a
central pin or tie-piece in order that it may be held securely by the teeth
of the pulley E. The chain H is by preference made in lengths of about
three feet, and each length is connected at its ends to a vertical link plate
I, which has an eye formed at each extremity to receive the end link of
each length of chain, which is fastened to the plate by a pin and nut or
other suitable means. The discs J, by means of which the water is lifted,
are formed, as shown in Fig. 3, of two metal washers a, secured to the link
plate I by pins or otherwise, and between these washers are interposed
and held three others formed of india-rubber. These rubber washers are
of different diameters, the central one 6 being larger than the others,
c and d, and they vary also in thickness, the lower washer being.
the stoutest, as before mentioned. The several lengths are formed into
an endless chain, which on the one side passes down the well and
under the pulley K, carried in brackets fixed to the vertical framing L,
which extends from the mouth of the well to the bottom, and is stayed at
intervals by a transverse beam M and tie pieces N. The framing L serves
as a guide and support for the vertical tube or column O, up which the
water is raised by the chain H. The tube O is formed witli a funnel-
shaped opening at the lower end, and at certain intervals its diameter.is

page_text: contracted as shewn at P; these contractions are preferred to be about
9 feet in length, and at intervals of about 50 yards apart. These con-
tractions are for the purpose of causing the discs J to press tightly
against the surface of the tube O, and thus exert a powerful sucking
or lifting force on the water. The central india-rubber is of such a
diameter as to fit the tube O tightly, and thus draw the column of water
up after it, whilst the upper and lower rubber washers by their flexibility
protect it from injury, and cause it to spring up when it leaves the
contracted parts of the tube O. The upper end of the tube O terminates
in the receiving trough Q, from whence the water flows away by a lip or
otherwise. When the pulley C is put in motion a continuous column of
water is raised in the tube O, with a comparatively small expenditure of
power, while, from its simplicity of construction the apparatus is not liable
to get out of order.
Im-
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my
provements in Apparatus for Raising Liquids,-
First, constructing the pulley round which the lifting chain of chain
pumps passes substantially in the manner herein-before described and
shewn in the accompanying Drawings.
Second, constructing the chain of chain pumps substantially as herein-
before described and shewn in the accompanying Drawings.
Third, constructing the tube or column of chain pumps with contracted
portions substantially as herein-before described and shewn in the accom:
panying Drawings.
Fourth, constructing the discs of chain pumps substantially as herein-
before described and shewn in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jean Ursin Bastier, have hereunto set
my hand and seal this Twelfth day of April, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six.
J. U. BASTIER, C.E.
(L.S.)