IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING WATER AND MINERALS FROM MINES, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO RAISING AND HAULING WEIGHTS GENERALLY
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Wright, of the Teesdale Iron Works, South
Stockton, in the Parish of Thornaly, and North Riding of the County
of York, Ironfounder and Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING WATER AND MINERALS FROM MINES,
WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO RAISING AND HAULING WEIGHTS
GENERALLY."
Sealed the 30th March 1860, and dated the 1st October 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Wright, at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 1st
October 1859.
I, JOSEPH WRIGHT, of the Teesdale Iron Works, South Stockton, in the
Parish of Thornaly and North Riding of the County of York, Ironfounder
and Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING WATER AND MINERALS FROM MINES,
WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO RAISING AND HAULING WEIGHTS GENE-
RALLY," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in an improved method of hoisting or raising water
or fluids, minerals, materials of any description, from any depth to any height,
either for mines, blast furnaces, cupolas, sewage, or factories, &c., to be con-

page_text: structed and used either horizontally on an inclined plane, or vertically, as
may be required, and with one or more piston rods or cylinders, or with one
cylinder to pump, and the other to hoist, as may be required or deemed
necessary.
By my Invention I propose to fix a steam cylinder in parts in a direct line
with the weight to be raised, and as long as the distance the weight is required
to travel, together with the necessary clearance, as shewn in annexed Drawing.
A piston rod, the full length of the required lift, to work through a stuffing
box at the end of the cylinder, as required, and attached at one end to the
piston working up in the cylinder, and the other to the weight to be raised.
I then introduce steam into the cylinder, and raising the weight to the required
height, which is regulated by the adjustment of my valves and the cage,
pump, or buckets, &c., are then lowered again by allowing the steam to escape;
this steam to be used either superheated or not, in a second larger hoist
cylinder on the same principle, if two are required, or allowed to exhaust into
a receiver for any other purpose after the ordinary method of using high and
low pressure steam.
And I claim as the utility of my Invention, as means of overcoming the
difficulty now experienced in the use of pumps for ordinary lifts in pumping
large bodies of water from mines or sewage, or other places, and also as
superseding the use of ropes, chains, and balance gear, of which the wear and
tear is so great in the present winding gear of mines, &c.
I propose to make the steam cylinder in pieces of convenient length, and
by adding them together arrive at the requisite 'length. I also propose to
adapt the piston rod in the same manner, and making it in tubes and jointing
them together into one continuous rod. I object to the cylinder or piston rod
being in one length, as coming within the scope of my Patent, as I consider
'boring it straight a practical impossibility, and also the piston rod for the
same reason.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed 80
by the said Joseph Wright, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 31st
March 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
WRIGHT, of the Teesdale Iron Works, South Stockton, in the --Parish of
Thornaly, and North Riding of the County of York, Ironfounder and 35.
Engineer, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Joseph Wright, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph Wright,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Joseph Wright, 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
APPARATUS FOR RAISING WATER AND MINERALS FROM MINES, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS
ARE APPLICABLE TO RAISING AND HAULING WEIGHTS GENERALLY," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Wright, 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 Joseph Wright, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for raising
water and minerals from mines, which improvements are applicable to raising
and hauling weights generally. For this purpose I employ a steam cylinder
of the same length as the distance to which it is required to raise or haul the
weight; this cylinder is fixed in a direct line with the direction in which the
weight is to be raised or hauled. In the cylinder a piston works, and when
the piston is at one end of the cylinder the weight to be raised or hauled is
connected to the end of the piston rod; steam is then admitted into the
cylinder behind the piston, by which the piston will be forced to the other end
of the cylinder, and will thus raise or haul the weight with it; the cylinder is
by preference made in lengths, which are bolted together so as to form a
cylinder of the requisite length. In employing this apparatus for raising
water from mines, or from other places, a forked piece is attached to the end
of the piston rod, from which is suspended on axes a bucket, in the bottom of
which there are valves opening inwards; this bucket, when at its lowest point.

page_text: descends into the water at the bottom, and the valves opening inwards allow
the bucket to fill; steam is then admitted into the cylinder below the piston,
when the piston will be forced to the top of the cylinder raising the bucket
with it; the bucket is then emptied by being turned over on its axes; when
the bucket is empty the steam is allowed to escape from the cylinder, when
the piston and bucket will descend, and the same operation will be repeated.
In order to raise minerals from mines à cage or basket similar to that now
employed is attached to the end of the piston rod in place of the bucket. In
the same way the apparatus may be employed for raising and hauling weights
for other purposes.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shews so much of a vertical section of a shaft of a mine or other
source from which it is desired to lift water, as will enable me to describe one'
part of my Invention. The arrangement shewn is suitable for working with
two steam cylinders and two buckets, but this may be varied, and one or more
steam cylinders used. I would state that I am aware that the direct action
of a steam piston working in a vertical steam cylinder, has been before used for
various purposes; I do not therefore claim the same generally. My Invention,
whether for lifting water, or for lifting weights up shafts or towers, or other
upright framings or chambers, suitably constructed for the purpose, consists in
combining with such shafts or towers, or upright framings or chambers, vertical
steam cylinders of a length in each case coinciding with the greatest height
the buckets used for raising water, or the platforms for raising minerals,
weights, or other bodies are required to be raised within such upright shaft or
tower, or other upright framing or chamber up through which the load is to
be raised. The bucket or platform in each case being connected directly with
the piston rod working through the lower cover of the steam cylinder; a, a, is
the shaft, which in the Drawing is shewn to be of brickwork, but it may be
otherwise constructed; b, b, are two steam cylinders fixed vertically at the
upper part of the shaft, and they are to be of a length coinciding with the
greatest distance through which the buckets c (which have valves at their
bottoms opening inwards) are intended to be moved; d, d, are two projections
which cause the buckets to be tilted as they rise up, so that they may deliver
their contents at the outlets e, e. Figure 2 shews a vertical tower constructed
of iron columns, but the same may be of brick or stonework or of wood, or
otherwise, or it may be a shaft of a mine suitably constructed according to the

page_text: purpose to which it is to be applied; Figures 3 and 4, two horizontal
sections taken at the parts indicated; f is a platform of a cage or other struc-
ture on which the minerals or other materials constituting the load is to be
placed; this platform is guided in its ascent by suitable guides 9, 9, as shewn;
6 is the long steam cylinder fixed vertically at the upper part of the tower or
shaft, or other upright structure, in such manner that the piston rod which
works through the lower cover may descend directly to, and be connected
with the platform of the lift, and by working vertically within the upright
structure raise and lower the platform the distance desired. I have not thought
it necessary to shew the valves and gearing of the steam engines, as they are
well understood, and constitute no part of my Invention. The piston rods I
prefer to construct of a series of tubes in order to get stiffness, lightness, and
strength, and I connect such tubes by means of short internal connecting
pieces, with left and right hand-screws thereon.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I would have it understood that I make no claim to any of
the parts separately; but what I claim are the combinations herein-described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Wright, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of March in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
JOSEPH WRIGHT (L.S.)
JOSEPH WRIGHT
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