A NEW OR IMPROVED PUMP OR APPARATUS FOR ACTING ON WATER OR OTHER LIQUID SO AS TO FORCE DISPLACE OR PROPEL THE SAME APPLICABLE ALSO AS A FAN OR BLOWER
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Browne of the firm of Browne and Company
of 5 Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex (Patent Agents) for
an invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED PUMP OR APPARATUS FOR ACTING
ON WATER OR OTHER LIQUID SO AS TO FORCE DISPLACE OR PROPEL THE
SAME APPLICABLE ALSO AS A FAN OR BLOWER A communication from
abroad by Charles Frederick Osborne of Cape Town South Africa
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Browne at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th April 1882.
ALEXANDER BROWNE of the firm of Browne and Company of 5 Southampton
Buildings in the County of Middlesex Patent Agents "A NEW OR IMPROVED
PUMP OR APPARATUS FOR ACTING ON WATER OR OTHER LIQUID SO AS TO FORCE
DISPLACE OR PROPEL THE SAME APPLICABLE ALSO AS A FAN OR BLOWER
"
(a communication from abroad by Charles Frederick Osborne of Cape Town South
Africa)
This invention relates to a moveable blade or vane placed longitudinally either
vertical or horizontal or inclined in an enclosed chamber of suitable form. The
said blade or vane receives an oscillating or rocking motion which may be com-
municated to it by rods passing through glands guides or stuffing boxes in the side
or sides of the aforesaid chainber or box
The motion communicated to the blade by the rods is given by cranks set at
right angles upon a rotating shaft which shaft is mounted by bearings attached to
a part of the aforesaid chamber or box and carries two or more pulleys or vane
wheels for the purpose of giving to the shaft rotary motion to be obtained by a
belt or band from a motive power Engine.
The motion given to the aforesaid blade or vane may be further modified by
giving to one or both of the rods an intermittent reciprocating motion; or such
motions as described in detail in the specification of my Letters Patent for pro-
pelling ships No 3163 of 31st July 1880 as applicable to be given to the propellor
therein described.
From either end of the chamber or box aforesaid pipes may be attached either
by flanges and bolts or otherwise and by the action of the propelling blade water
or other liquid may be propelled or pumped through these pipes in either direction
or the pipes or chamber or box may be fitted with valves to cause the flow in one
direction only.
This apparatus modified in form can be used as a fan or blower.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Alexander Browne in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th October 1882.
ALEXANDER BROWNE of the firm of Browne and Company of 5 Southampton
Buildings in the County of Middlesex Patent Agents "A NEW OR IMPROVED
PUMP OR APPARATUS FOR ACTING ON WATER OR OTHER LIQUID SO AS TO FORCE,.
DISPLACE OR
A FAN OR BLOWER
PROPEL THE SAME, APPLICABLE ALSO AS
a communication from abroad by Charles Frederick Osborne of Cape Town South
Africa
"
This invention relates to a moveable blade or vane placed longitudinally either
vertical or horizontal or inclined in an enclosed-chamber-of-suitable form. The
said blade or vane receives an oscillating or rocking motion which may be com
municated to it by rods passing through glands, guides or stuffing boxes in the side
or sides of the aforesaid chamber or box.
The motion communicated to the blade by the rods is given by cranks set at
right angles upon a rotating shaft which shaft is mounted by bearings attached to
a part of the aforesaid chamber or box and carries two or more pulleys or vane
wheels for the purpose of giving to the shaft rotary motion to bo obtained by a
belt or band from a motive power engine
-
The motion given to the aforesaid blade or vane may be further modified by
giving to one or both of the rods an intermittent reciprocating motion or such
motions as described in detail in the Specification of my Letters Patent for pro-
pelling ships No 3163 of 31st July 1880 as applicable to be given to the propellor
therein described.
From either end of the chamber or box aforesaid pipes may be attached either
by flanges and bolts or otherwise and by the action of the propelling blade water
or other liquid may be propelled or pumped through these pipes in either direction
or the pipes, or chamber, or box may be fitted with valve to cause the flow in one
direction only.
This apparatus modified in form can be used as a fan or blower
And in order to explain my said invention more fully, I will now proceed to
describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawing (which shows my
invention applied to two pumps) in which the same letters denote the same parts
in all the figures. Fig 1 is a side elevation. Fig 2 is a plan one of the pumps
being shown with the chamber cover removed. Fig 3 is an end elevation partly in
section A, A Figs 1; 2 and 3 are oblong chambers having at one end the suction a
and at the other the delivery b. B Figs 2 and 3 is the moveable blade or vane
and it is by the action of this blade or vane that the water or other liquid is
drawn into the Chamber through the Suction a and ejected through the delivery b.
The motive power is transmitted from the prime mover to the horizontal shaft C
by means of the belt pulley D. Upon the shaft C are keyed two Eccentrics E E
set at right angles
The blade or vane B is connected to these eccentrics by means of strap plates
and connecting rods F F. The eccentrics E E change the motion from rotating to
reciprocating thus giving to the blade or vane B a rocking or oscillating motion.
This apparatus can be used as a fan or blower
Although the drawing shows my invention applied to 2 pumps the same can be
applied to one only if desirable.
I would remark in conclusion that I do not intend to limit myself to the precise
details herein referred to and shown on the drawing as the same may be varied

page_text: with regard to the arrangement for driving the blade or vane.
But what I desire
to secure as the invention communicated to me from abroad and therefore claim is
& pump or apparatus for acting upon water or other liquid so as to force, displace
or propel the same, applicable also as a fan or blower, substantially as set forth
In witness whereof I the said Alexander Browne have hereunto set my hand
and seal this twentieth day of October in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty two
ALEXR. BROWNE (1.8.)