AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF ENGINE FOR OBTAINING AND APPLYING MOTIVE POWER
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Colborne, Major Honble., and Thomas Clement
Belmore St. George, Captain, both of Coleman Street, in the City of London,
for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF ENGINE FOR OBTAINING
AND APPLYING MOTIVE POWER."
Scaled the 9th September 1876, and dated the 15th March 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Colborne and Thomas
Clement Belmore St. George at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents
on the 15th March 1876.
JOHN COLBORNE, Major Honble, and THOMAS CLEMENT BELMORE ST. GEORGE,
Captain, both of Coleman Streot, in the City of London. "AN IMPROVED CON-
STRUCTION OF ENGINE FOR OBTAINING AND APPLYING MOTIVE POWER."
Our Invention has for its object the construction of a motive-power engine to be
employed in giving direct rotary or reciprocating motion to various kinds of
machinery, such as screw and paddle-wheel propellers for ships, carriages on
railways and common roads, sewing machines, toys, and other mechanism requiring
to be driven by a simple and inexpensive force in place of steam or otherwise as at
present, and consists in constructing and employing two or more receptacles or
fluid-tight compartments of a spherical or other form, coupled together in sets of
two or more, communicating internally with each other by intervening pipos or
passages extending from the lower portion of one to the upper part of the other,
so that each of said vessels when charged with quicksilver, water, spirit, or
other liquids, and arranged upon an axis, shall oscillate upon a radial arın like a
common beam, or be made to revolve on the periphery of a drum or wheel in such
manner that on the lower charged receptacle being brought in contact with
external heat, such as firo, gas, flame, or chemical action, the fluid in the lower
vessels or receptacles, from the direct superincumbent pressure exerted by its own
generated atmosphere in a vacuum or otherwise, shall cause the said fluid to be
driven up the intervening pipes into the next compartment above, as aforesaid, and
so on in succession, thereby producing by its gravitating influence or uniform
preponderance of weight on one sido only of the wheel or arms a motive power
suitable for the purpose above described.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in, pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John.Colborne and Thomas Clement Belmore St. George in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 15th September 1876.
Major Honorable JOHN COLBORNE. of
,
and
Captain THOMAS CLEMENT BELMORE ST. GEORGE, of the Army & Navy Club, Pall
Mall, in the County of Middlesex. 'AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF ENGINE FOR
"
OBTAINING AND APPLYING MOTIVE POWER."
Our Invention has for its object the construction of a motive-power engine to
be employed in giving direct rotary or reciprocating motion or otherwise to
various kinds of machinery, such as screw and paddle-wheel propellers for ships,
carriages on railways and common roads, sewing machines, pumps, toys, and
mechanism generally requiring to be driven by a simple force, and consists in
constructing and employing two or more receptacles or fluid-tight compartments
with or without valves of spherical or other form, connected in sets of two or more,
communicating internally or otherwise with each other by intervening doors,
valves, pipes, or passages extending from one to the other, so that each or any of
the said compartments or receptacles when charged with quicksilver or any
admixture thereof, water, spirit, ether, bisulphide of carbon, or mixture of these
or any other fluids, and arranged upon an axis, shall oscillate upon a radial arm
like a common beam, or be made to revolve upon the periphery of a drum, or as a
cylinder or wheel in such manner that on the lower charged receptacles or com-
partments being exposed to the influence of heat, such as fire, flame, gas, chemical
action, or heated water, the fluid in one or more of the vessels from the direct
superincumbent pressure exerted by its own generated atmosphore, or vapour in
vacuo or otherwise, shall cause the said fluid to be forced through the connecting
doors, pipes, valves, or passages into the next or opposite or other portions of the
drum, wheel, or cylinder, and so on in succession, thereby producing by its
influence or preponderance of weight on one side of the wheel, cylinder, drum, or
arms a motive power suitable for the purpose above described.
The Invention also includes employing a turbine wheel worked in same manner.
In witness thereoff I affix my hand & scal, this day, 15th Sept., 1876: