IMPROVEMENTS IN PROPELLING VESSELS, AND IN MACHINERY OR APPARATIS CONNECTED THEREWITH."
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Wild, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PROPELLING VESSELS, AND IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATIS CONNECTED THEREWITH."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Wild at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 1st March 1864.
1. JOHN WILD, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PROPELLING VESSELS'
AND IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH," to be as follows:-
I take any convenient quantity of water from the front of the vessel and
convey it to the back part, the continual force of which will act as a propelling
power. The machinery or apparatus for conveying the water may be of different
kinds, such as force pumps, tubes, turbines, or similar contrivances, and may
be placed either inside or outside the vessel, as found most convenient.
When a force pump is used the water is drawn from the front of the vessel
and forced to the back of it, by which a propelling power is obtained by the
agitation of the water, and so on, in case any other apparatus is used to
displace the water.
5 SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Wild in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th
August 1864.
15 SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Wild in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th
August 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WILD, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Wild, Her special license that I, the said John Wild,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
John Wild, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN PROPELLING VESSELS, AND IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I. the said John Wild, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Wild, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):-
I take any convenient quantity of water from the front of the vessel and
convey it to the back part, the continual force of which will act as a propelling
power. The machinery or apparatus for conveying the water may bo of different
kinds, such as force pumps, screws, paddles, turbines, or similar contrivances,
and may be placed eithor inside or outside the vessel, as found most convenient.
When a force pump is used the water is drawn from the front of the vessel
and forced to the back of it, by which a propelling power is obtained by the s
agitation of the water, and so on, in case any other apparatus is used to
displace the water.
The manner in which my Invention is to be performed will be clearly
understood by referring to the figures and letters on the accompanying Sheet
of Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a transverse section, Fig. 2 a longitudinal 3
section, and Fig. 3 a plan of a vessel having in its interior one of my arrange-
ments for forcing the water from the front to the back of the vessel.
In the interior of the vessel a there is a screw b enclosed in a case c having
at both ends openings leading to the water passage or tube d, which is open at

page_text: both ends to the outside water, there being slides e for shutting off the said
outside water when required. Tho screw b is fixed to the shaft f, and bas
revolving motion given to it from a steam engine or other motive power, and
when it turns rapidly it draws the water from the front and forces it to the
back against the outside water, and thereby causes the forward motion of the
vessel. The screw may be substituted by one or more force pumps, turbines, or
any other contrivance capable of being employed for drawing water from the
front of the vessel and forcing it to the back, and when it is desired I employ
a drawing and forcing apparatus with its water tube at each side of the vessel,
there being slides to shut off the water in case of repairs.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be understood
that I do not claim the force pumps, screws, turbines, or other drawing or
forcing apparatus by themselves, but what I do claim is, their employment in
combination with water tubes or passages open to water at the front and back
for the purpose of propelling vessels, as all such improvements are herein
described and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whercof, I, the said John Wild, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-third day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named John Wild, in the
presence of
E. J. HUGHES,
JOHN WILD. (L.S.)
Patent Agent,
Manchester.