IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING WATER."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Tasker, of the Waterloo Iron Works, near
Andover, in the County of Hants, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING WATER."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Tasker at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th November 1881.
WILLIAM TASKER, of the Waterloo Iron Works, near Andover, in the County of
Hants. *IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING WATER."
My Invention, relating to improvements in machinery or apparatus for raising
water, has reference to the combination with a machine or apparatus for raising
water from a well or other source by means of buckets of a pump, so arranged as
to force the water raised by the buckets to a higher level, the well-machine and
the pump being so combined as to be worked simultaneously by the same
actuating power.
The machine as ordinarily constructed consists of a pulley worked by handles
and gearing, and over which passes a cord or chain connected with a set of
buckets, one at each end of the cord or chain. As a full bucket is clevated the
empty one descends; and on each bucket (when filled) coming to the surface, it is
tilted by suitable catches, so that its contents are discharged into a trough suitably
placed for the purpose. According to my Invention I combine with the machine
thus constructed a pump placed in or connected with the trough, and arranged to
be worked by suitable levers driven from an eccentric or in any other convenient
manner, so that when the handles of the machine are turned the water in the
trough shall be forced to a higher level.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Tasker in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 9th May
1882.
WILLIAM TASKER, of the Waterloo Iron Works, near Andover, in the County of
Hants. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING WATER."
My Invention, relating to improvements in machinery or apparatus for raising
water, has reference to the combination with a machine or apparatus for raising
water from a well or other source by means of buckets of a pump, so arranged as
to force the water raised by the buckets to a higher level or to a different place,
the well machine and the pump being so combined as to be worked simultaneously
by the same actuating power. One form of well machine as ordinarily constructed
consists of a pulley worked by handles and gearing, over which pulley passes a
cord or chain connected with a set of buckets, one at each end of the cord or chain.
As a full bucket is elevated the empty one descends; and on each bucket (when
filled) coming to the surface it is tilted by suitable catches, so that its contents are
discharged into a trough suitably placed for the purpose. According to my
Invention I combine with the machine thus constructed a pump placed in or
connected with the trough, and arranged to be worked_by_suitable levers driven
from an eccentric or in any other convenient manner, so that when the handles of
the machine are turned the water in the trough shall be forced to a higher level or
to a different place.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood, I shall now proceed
more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose shall refer to the several
Figures on the annexed Sheet of Drawings, the same letters of reference indicating
corresponding parts in both the Figures.
Figures 1 and 2 represent elevations taken at right angles to each other of
double action well machinery, with which is combined and worked a pump.
according to my Invention.
The following is a description of the well machinery, but it is to be understood
that to this machinery separately and in itself alone I lay no claim.
A are the standards or framings connected by tie rods or struts a, and resting
upon a base plate or platform B. The said framings carry the shafts C and D, on
one end of the former of which is the flywheel c¹ carrying the handle c², and to the
shaft C is also keyed the pinion E gearing with the toothed wheel F keyed to the
shaft D, so that motion is thereby transmitted from the shaft C to the shaft D.
The said shaft D has also keyed thereto the chain or rope pulley G, over which the
chain or rope H passes, which chain or rope carries at each end a bucket, one of
which only is seen in the Drawing and marked K, so that one bucket is at the top
of the well whilst the other is at the bottom, or one is being raised full of water
whilst the other is being lowered empty. On the platform B a tank L is placed, in
connection with which are catches or hooks L', L, so arranged as to catch into a
ring at the top of each of the buckets when they reach the top of the said trough,
and thereby cause the buckets to tip and discharge their contents into the tank L.
According to my Invention a force pump N having its suction at n¹ and its
discharge at n is placed in the tank L or in communication therewith. The plunger
rod n³ of the said pump is attached by its connecting rod n with the crank pin p
carried by the crank dise O fixed to the shaft C. This crank pin p may also carry
a handle, as shewn in Figure 2. A pipe R is in connection with the discharge
oritice of the pump, and through this pipe the water may be discharged at any
desired place or clevation. In the Drawing I have shewn a tank S mounted upon
the framings A, into which tank the said pipe R is conducting the water from the
pump.

page_text: It will be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise construction and
position of the pump shewn, nor to the kind of well machinery shewn and
described, nor to the precise means of actuating the pump shewn and described.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into
effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and original,
and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the hereinbefore in part
recited Letters Patent is,-
The improvements in machinery or apparatus for raising water, consisting of the
combination with well machinery of a force pump, 60 connected and combined
therewith that both the said machinery and the pump are worked together or by
one and the same operation, substantially as and for the purpose herein before
described with reference to the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Tasker, have to this my Specification
set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of May, One thousand eight hundred
and eighty two.
WILLIAM TASKER. (L.S.)