AN IMPROVED MACHINE CONSTRUCTED ON SELF-MOVING PRINCIPLES FOR OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER
Year: 1863

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by Henri Adrien Bonneville at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and Declaration,
on the 4th July 1868, pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent Law
Amendment Act, 1852.
3 TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, Patent Agent, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices,
24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "AN IMPROVED MACHINE
CONSTRUCTED ON SELF-MOVING PRINCIPLES FOR OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER," a com-
munication from Jules François Duhamel, a person, now residing at 24, Rue
du Mont Thabor, in the City of Paris, and Empire of France aforesaid, and
have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn
declaration that it is a communication.
NOW KNOW. YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and seal,
fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, reference being had to the accom-
panying Drawing, in the two Figures; of which the corresponding parts of
the mechanism are represented by the same letters of reference, that is to
say:
This Invention consists in an hydraulic, self-moving apparatus producing.
an useful force by means of the simple weight of water,. and requiring no.

page_text: further expense than that resulting from the wear of the various parts of which
it is composed.
The two Figures of the annexed Drawing represent Fig. 1 a section, and
Fig. 2 a front view.
A, A, is a covered frame supporting the whole of the apparatus; B, B, a
double endless cup chain passing over two toothed wheels C, C, to the arbor
of which are fixed two pinions D, which work the toothed wheels E, E, which
transmit their movement of rotation directly to the wheels.F, F. These latter
wheels work those G, G, mounted on an arbor, on which are fixed the con-
necting rods H, H, with two elbow rods working the pistons I, I, of the two
pumps J, J, placed at each side of the frame. The suction pipes T, T, com-
municate with a reservoir K placed at the bottom of the apparatus. Near
the upper part of the cup chain B is placed a reservoir L, in which abut the
discharge tubes M, M, of the pumps J, J. This reservoir has at its lower
part a tube N, the spring tap O of which is opened intermittingly in order to
allow of the water running successively into each of the cups fixed to the
endless chain. The tap is opened by means of the double cam P placed in
the centre of the arbor of the small wheels S, S, which cog in the large
wheels Q, Q, mounted on the arbor of the wheels C, C. On the arbor of
the wheels F, F, and at one of its extremities is mounted a transmission
pulley R.
The apparatus is set in motion, after having filled the two reservoirs with.
water, by opening the tap O of the upper one so as to let the water run into
each of the cups fixed to the front of the endless chain. The augmentation
of the weight of each of these cups causes them to descend successively into
the lower reservoir K. When turning over, they empty themselves, remount
at the other side, and are again filled at the tap of the upper reservoir L..
The chain being thus drawn gives a rotary motion to the wheels C, C, which
is transmitted by their common arbor to the wheels Q, Q, working the small.
wheels S, S, and the double cam P, which continues to open the tap to let the.
water run into the cups and to the wheels,E, E, F, F, G, G, which act by the
connecting rods H, H, on the pistons of the pumps, which therefore feed
incessantly the upper reservoir L. Thus the water of the lower reservoir
unceasingly raised by the pumps into the upper reservoir, from whence it runs.
continually, constitutes a self-acting motive force entirely without expense.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention; and the. manner in-
which it is to be carried into effect, I would have it understood that I do not:
intend to confine myself to the precise details above given, which may be
modified without departing from the principle of the Invention; but what I

page_text: claim is the general arrangement of the different parts of the said apparatus
which permit of the production of a motive power by the simple weight of
water which operates in the manner and is such as above described and repre-
sented in the annexed Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.S.)