IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING WATER AND OTHER FLUIDS
Year: 1861

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Renil de Clercq and
Emile Chazelles at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 8th August 1861.
We, RENIL DE CLERCQ and EMILE CHAZELLES, of Brussels, in the Kingdom
5 of Belgium, Mechanical Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING WATER
AND OTHER FLUIDS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in employing in a horizontal position a wheel having
its boss or nave traversed by and fixed upon a vertical hollow shaft terminating
at the bottom in a solid spindle maintained between cross bars or webs to allow
a passage and working in a suitable bearing. The lower part of the shaft
and spindle is placed in the water to be raised. The rim or circumference of
the wheel is composed of a number of cylinders closed at their ends and
placed near each other in the same direction as the arms. Above the boss or
nave of the wheel there is a hollow truncated cone traversed by the hollow
shaft. In the interior of the cone there are partitions arranged so as to leave
spaces between them. Each of the hollow cylinders carries two pipes extend-
ing upwards. One of these pipes communicates with the truncated cone, and
the other pipe is placed vertically at the other end of the cylinder, the length
of this pipe is varied to correspond with the length of the hollow shaft between
the nave and bottom spindle. Each of these vertical pipes has an elbow at
the top directed to the exterior part of the machine. The shaft is hollow from
the bottom spindle to the top of the truncated cone. The other part of the
shaft is to be solid, or if not there must be means provided to prevent any

page_text: communication with the lower part. The interior of the hollow part of the
shaft communicates with the interior of the cone by apertures near the top.
At the top of the shaft there is a spindle working in a suitable bearing and
having a pulley or other contrivance for giving rapid motion to the shaft and
parts connected with it.
The machine has to be filled with water and rapid motion given to it, and
the water contained in the truncated cone and horizontal cylinders is powerfully
forced towards the circumference and rises in the vertical pipes, from whence
it is spirted out; but this water cannot flow to the circumference nor rise in the
pipes without leaving a vacuum in the truncated cone and in the horizontal
cylinders. The water from the supply reservoir is then drawn through the
hollow shaft and passes through the apertures near the top of the cone and fills
the space from which the water has been forced. The water last supplied
is in its turn forced outward, which causes another vacuum and aspiration and
so on. A continuous flow of water is thus obtained, the rapidity of which depends
upon the speed given to the machine. The water which passes through the elbows
of the vertical pipes is received in a reservoir from whence it can be led to any
place desired. Instead of having a communication by pipes between the
truncated cone and the horizontal cylinders longer cylinders may be used, and
also several ranges of cylinders may be employed one above the other, by which
means the power of the machine is increased. The hollow shaft or suction pipe
may be materially shortened by causing its lower spindle to work in a socket
placed at the bottom of a reservoir full of water eight or nine yards above the
supply reservoir. In the socket there are conduits, the bottom of which are
in connection with a pipe which descends to the supply water or other liquid.
When the liquid is required to be raised very high several of these machines
may be placed one above the other and put in motion simultaneously from the
same moving power.
These machines are based upon the properties of the inertia of matter and
centrifugal force.