IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION OF PUMPS AND MACHINERY FOR RAISING FLUID AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1834

page_text: BARTON, of Providence Row, Finsbury, Engineer, and SAMUEL NYE and
JOSEPH NYE, both of Saint Andrew's Road, Southwark, in the County of Surry,
Mechanics, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the First day of July, in the fifth year of His reign, did, for
Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant us, tho said John Barton;
Samuel Nye, and Josepli Nye, His special licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that we, the said John Barton, Samuel Nye, and Joseph Nye,
our exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Barton,
Samuel Nye, and Joseph Nye, our exors, adñiors, or assigns; should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during
the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use;"
exercise, and vend within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, our Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION
OF PUMPS AND MACHINERY FOR RAISING FLUID AND OTHER PURPOSES;" in which.
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that we; the said John Barton,
Samuel Nye, and Joseph Nye, or one of us, shall cause a particular description
of the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being there-
uuto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the snid
John Barton, Samuel Nye, and Joseph Nye, do hereby declare that the nature
of our Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed,
are fully described and ascertained in and by the following description thereof,
reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and
marked thereon, that is to say.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents a pump constructed according to our first improvement,
and its peculiar novelty consists in the arrangement of four valves, one above
the other, whereby the single barrel of the pump is made to be a double-acting
pump; that is to say, at the time of working the pump a constant stream will flow
from the eduction pipe, whether the same be made on a large or small scale.
The one shewn in the Drawing is intended as a syringe for the purposes of a
stomach pump, or for administering glisters. A is the ordinary barrel of the
pump; B, the piston; C, the piston rod; D, the induction or what is called
the suction pipe; E is the induction valve to the upper part of the pump
barrel; and F is the eduction valve from the upper part of the pump barrel.
These two valves E and F, it will be seen, are contained in the chamber or
compartment G, such compartment being connected with the upper part of
the pump barrel by the tube or trunk H, and the water is forced from the
compartment G through the pipe I, which is connected to the main eduction
way of the pump. J is the induction valve to the under part of the pump
barrel; and K is the eduction valve to the under part of the pump barrel; and
Lis the eduction pipe or way by which tho fluid from both sides of the piston
is driven out; and according to the use to which such pump or syringe is
applied, so will be the tube affixed to the eduction way L. By this arrange-
ment it will be evident that a very compact pump, and particularly syringes for
stomach pumps and other purposes, may be used, as by this means a double-
acting pump will be readily obtained, which will offer great compactness,
which is particularly desirable in such like instruments. And the improvement
claimed under this first part of our Invention is, the application of the four
valves placed above each other, as above described. It will be seen that there
are two other arrangements of pumps shewn in the Drawing, in each of which
the arrangement of valves are similar to Fig. 1; but we lay no claim to any
of the parts shewn, excepting the arrangement of the valves.
Figure 2 represents the second improvement, which is applied to a single
acting pump or a syringe for a stomach pump, or for administering glisters or
other fluids. In this instance only one valve, the eduction valve, is contained in

page_text: the pump barrel, the eduction valve being contained in the branch or eduction.
pipe. By this means the eduction valve will be unscrewed or otherwise
separated from the barrel of the pump. A is the barrel of the pump; B, the
piston; and C, the piston rod; D, the eduction way; and E, the suction or
induction pipe, in all which particulars this pump or syringe differs not from
ordinary syringes. G is the eduction pipe which screws into the barrel of the.
pump. H is the eduction valve contained in the eduction pipe, as shewn in.
the Drawing; and it is the placing of such cluction valve within the eduction
tube, in place of the pump itself, and whereby when the same are separate one
from the other, and admit of packing more compactly than ordinary pumps or
syringes of a like kind.
Our third improvement is shewn in Figure 3, which consists in placing a
syringe or pump within the vessel which is to contain the fluid to be admi-
nistered, whereby the same space which will be required for the conjoined
instrument will be only that which is occupied by the outer vessel itself. A is
the syringe of any of the ordinary construction, affixed within the vessel .B,
which is intended to contain the fluid, and our Invention does not consist in
either the pump A or the vessel B, in their separate condition; but we do
claim the combining and affixing the syringe A within the vessel B, as shewn
in the Drawing.
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Our fourth improvement consists in an improvement on the eduction pipe or
tubes of syringes for stomach pumps, or for administering glisters or other
fluids (that is to say), in constructing the eduction pipe with universal joints,
by which metallic tubes may be used as the eduction tubes of syringes..
Figure 4 shows this improvement. A is the part by which the tube is con-
nected to the barrel of the syringe. B, B, is the tube which may be made to
any required length, and may have any number of joints. C, C, are two
portions of spheres which work within the spherical sockets D, D, which are
formed of two parts which screw together, by which the parts C, C, arc
admitted into the sockets; these parts are to be accurately made by grinding
or otherwise. And our fourth improvement consists in the application of joints
to the eduction pipes of syringes, whereby such pipes may be made of metal, at
the same time still offer sufficient movement to adapt the same to the positions
required.
Figure 5 represents our fifth improvement, and consists in an improvement
added to an ordinary apparatus for supplying lubricating fluid to the bearings
of machinery. A is the vessel to contain the fluid; B, the tube down which
the woollen threads descend, in order that that part may convey the fluid to
the bearing of the machinery to which it is applied. So far the apparatus is

page_text: similar to those in ordinary use, and constitutes no part of our Invention. Cis
a float, having a tube D which slides over the tube 13. The threads of worsted
are supported on the float, and rise and fall, by which the height up which the
lubricating fluid has to rise before it descends to the bearing of the machinery
will be the same. And our Invention, which is claimed under the fifth point of
our Invention, consists in the application of the float C, for the purpose of
regulating the height at which the lubricating fluids have to rise up the
shorter leg of the worsted threads before it descends to the bearing of the
machine to which it is to be applied.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Barton and Joseph Nye, have
hereunto set our hands and scals, this Thirty-first day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.