Improvements in the Accumulation and Transmission of Power by Means of Liquids.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Accumulation and Transmission of Power by
Means of Liquids.
I HENRI BEAU of 20 Rue de la Terrasse Paris in the Republic of France,
Maritime Inspector, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to utilize the laws of inertia, of equilibrium and
speed of flow of liquids to produce a motor capable of developing an energy much
greater than that proper to it, by making it move or set in movement masses of
liquid which will acquire a momentum which may be utilized to produce an effort
far greater than would be produced by the prime mover alone.
For this purpose I isolate within a body of liquid a portion of said liquid by
means of a partition of suitable length enclosing except at its ends such portion of
liquid in a form of suitable cross-sectional shape. In this portion of liquid the
prime mover moves a piston or screen. A very small effort is necessary to commence
to set such liquid in circulation through the part partitioned off and such movement
may be gradually accelerated by a weak moving force applied to the piston, but
the momentum of such body of liquid may be utilized with great effect through
the same piston or otherwise to overcome a resistance suddenly opposed to the
movement of the piston or of the liquid which a persistent effort of the prime motor
would have failed to overcome.
Dated this 12th day of Inly 1896
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Accumulation and Transmission of Power by
Means of Liquids.
I, HENRI BEAU, of 20 Rue de la Terrace, Paris in the Republic of France,
Maritime Inspector, 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:-
This invention relates to a new system of apparatus based upon the laws of inertia,
of equilibrium and of velocity of flow of liquids and adapted to impart to a motor
a much greater force than that proper to itself alone by causing it to put in
movement, either simultaneously or previously to the object to be moved, masses
considerable enough to develop by reaction an effort much surpassing the driving
force, as soon as the latter ceases to operate.

page_text: Fig. 1 is a plan view.
Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line A B of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the same system of apparatus arranged horizontally.
The same letters indicate the same parts.
This apparatus is composed by a receiver a filled with liquid and divided into two
parts for a certain part of its height, if it is vertical Figs. 1 and 2; or of its length,
if it is horizontal Fig. 3, by partition b the extremities of which must be situated in a
convenient distance both from the walls of the vessel and from the surface of the liquid,
in order to avoid any obstruction of the movement of the liquid and of a piston or of a
screen c provided with a rod d in order to :-
1. To divide the middle of the liquid by the partition b or to separate it into two
parts; in order that its parts e and fare thus mutually balanced as regards the action
of gravity and are not hindered in their rectilinear and inverted movement.
2. To interpolate in one of the parts of the mass a piston or a screen c of a sectional
area equal to that of the part of the mass with the exception, if it is a screen, the
difference necessary for avoiding any friction against the walls.
This screen which acts as if integral with the mass while it is in the space limited
by the partition, serves as prime mover during the part of the movement effected
under the influence of the driving force and afterwards as receiver of the inertia force
developed against it by the mass in movement, when the moving action is suppressed
and replaced by a resisting force.
The whole of the apparatus has such arrangement as will seem the most convenient
according to the circumstances either vertical as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 or horizontal
as shown in Fig. 3; each part of the liquid mass is indifferently placed parallelly or
concentrically one to the other, side by side or in different receivers, situated at a
certain distance one from the other and forming doubly communicating vessels, the
screen having the form as desired and the mass the configuration which will be
considered most advantageous.
Suppose the volume and the weight of the screen provided with its rod are such
that it has exactly the weight of the liquid which it displaces.
Any weak force as it might be could give it any velocity but it will take so much
more time as the sectional area is greater.
The liquid mass with which it acts will make the same movement as itself; while
that placed on the other side of the partition will have an identical movement, but in
inverse direction.
If under these conditions the screen c is either lifted or lowered by operating the
rod d (Figs. 1 and 2) which is abandoned suddenly, the movement will continue by
itself until the vis viva is exhausted or the screen has surpassed the partition for the
necessary distance in order that the liquid in movement finding a sufficient lateral
passage no longer acts on the screen.
If, after having abandoned--the-rod-there is opposed to it a resistance, there will be
produced a counter pressure, the intensity of which will be equal to the vis viva
developed at this moment and consequently in proportion to the numerical value of
the mass in movement and of its velocity.
My system can be adapted on any machine moved by animal force or mechanical
motor.
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 :-
Means for producing by reaction an effort more considerable than that of the
driving force operating upon it, by dividing a body of liquid by means of a partition
so that gravity does not restrain its movement, interposing in this mass a piston
or a screen which acts with it in a constant or intermittent manner, transmitting
to this mass the velocity furnished to the screen or to the piston by a moving
force receiving upon this piston or upon this screen the vis viva of the liquid mass

page_text: in movement developed by reaction against it when the moving force ceasing to
operate is replaced by a resisting force, and overpowering this resisting force by
opposing to it by means of the piston or of the screen, the vis viva of which it
undergoes the action.
Dated this 10th day of Anil 1907
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.