IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND APPLI- CATION OF PUMPS AND MACHINERY FOR RAISING FLUIDS, AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1833

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BARTON, of Goswell Road, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the First day of June, in the third year of His reign, did,
for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
Barton, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that
I, the said John Barton, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said John Barton, my exors, adñors, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND APPLI-
CATION OF PUMPS AND MACHINERY FOR RAISING FLUIDS, AND OTHER PURPOSES;" in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said John
Barton, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His
said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the
said John Barton, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed and carried into effect,
are fully described and ascertained in and by the following description thereof,
reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and
letters marked thereon, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in certain arrangements of apparatus and machinery
whereby I am enableil to take advantage of any vibration which may be
produced to the body, or apparatus, or vessel, in which my improvements are
placed, and thereby produce to the pump or pumps a constant working action;
thus, for instance, in a ship or vessel the motion caused whilst sailing or lying
at anchor will at all times be producing more or less action to the pumps on
board, when constructed and applied according to my improvements; and my
Invention consists in so suspending or connecting a weight or weights to the
piston rods of pumps, that in whatever direction an inclination may take
place, such weight or weights, from their being able to act in any direction,
will cause a working motion to the pumps, and it is the giving a universal
power to such weights to turn to their work in whatever direction: the
inclination or oscilation may take place which constitute my present improve-
ments. But in order that my Invention may be most fully understood, I, will
describe the Drawings hereunto annexed, which represent an arrangement or
combination having four pumps, by which it will be evident that other numbers
of pumps may be worked in like manner by my improvements. But I
conceive that it will not be necessary for me to describe more than these
arrangements, as any competent workman will from these be able to apply, my
improvements to other, numbers of pumps. And, I would observe, that
my
Invention does not relate to the ordinary parts of pumps, the constructions of
which are well known.
Figure 1 represents, an elevation, Figure 2 a plan; and Figure 3 is also a
plan of the cross arms, and handles, by which the four pumps are worked.
By these three Figures my Invention is represented as applied and arranged
for working four pumps; a, a, being four ordinary pump barrels or cylinders;
b, b, their piston rods; c, c, their induction or suction pipes; and d, d, their
eduction pipes, which discharge themselves into the pipes e, e, from whence
the water may be conveyed to any direction from the point f by connecting
proper pipes thereto; 9is a rod suspended from above at h, where the rod g
has a spherical ball at its end which works within a spherical socket formed
at h, and thus producing an universal joint, as is well understood by
mechanics, by which the rod is capable of oscilating in any direction; on to
this rod 7 is affixed the cross arms j, which, arms are at right angles to each
other and work the four piston rods, as will be evident on inspecting the

page_text: three Figures to the Drawings, the piston rods being connected by connecting
rods working by universal joints in like manner to that before described.
Now, it will be evident that if a weight be suspended to the rod g sufficiently
heavy to work the four pistons, and the quantity of this weight will vary even
for the same sized pump barrels, depending on the perpendicular height of the
lift, it will not be necessary to give any particular dimensions; all that it will
be desirable to observe is, that whatever be the pressure of the water to be
lifted the weight in falling from side to side shall be sufficient to overcome the
resistance.
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Having now described the nature of my Invention and the manner of
combining and using the same, I would have it understood that I am aware
that a weighted pendulum has been already used for actuating pumps, but has
only been capable of swinging or vibrating in one direction, consequently, was
of no use in situations where the vibration or oscilation is continually changing
its direction; I do not, therefore, lay any claim to a weighted pendulum
working in such manner. But I claim the giving an universal property to turn
in any required direction to a weighted pendulum actuating pumps, whereby
in whatever direction the vibration or inclination may take place, the said
weighted pendulum or other similar apparatus may be able to turn in that
direction and work the pump or pumps; for I would observe that, although I.
have only described an arrangement of four pumps, it will be evident that
similar effects may be produced to one or more pumps.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Barton, have hereunto set, my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of November, in the year of, our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three