IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING POWER BY WATER
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Denny Lane, of Sundays Well, in the City of Cork,
Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING POWER BY
WATER."
Sealed the 29th May 1855, and dated the 5th April 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Denny Lane at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 5th
April 1855..
I, DENNY LANE, of Sundays Well, in the City of Cork, Merchant, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING
POWER BY WATER" to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to that class of machinery wherein an endless chain or
succession of buckets is used. Heretofore very expensive chains for connecting
the buckets have been employed in such machines, and I have discovered by
experiment that these may be dispensed with, and a simple band of gutta
percha used in place thereof. And my Invention consists of employing a band
of gutta percha, and affixing thereto the requisite succession or series of
buckets, the rollers or cylinders carrying the endless chain of buckets being
varied accordingly.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Denny Lane in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th October 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DENNY
LANE, of Sundays Well; in the City of Cork, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Denny Lane, Her special licence that. I, the said Denny Lane, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Denny
Lane, 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 OBTAINING
POWER BY WATER," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Denny Lane, by an instrument in writing under my hand and scal, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Denny Lane, do hereby declare the
nature of the 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 thereof (that is to say):—
This Invention relates to that class of machinery wherein an endless chain
or succession of buckets is used.
Heretofore very expensive chains for
connecting the buckets have been employed in such machines, and I have
discovered by experiment that these may be dispensed with, and a simple band
of gutta percha used in place thereof. And my Invention consists of employ-
ing a band of gutta percha, and affixing thereto the requisite succession or
series of buckets, the rollers or cylinders carrying the endless chain of buckets
being varied accordingly.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
The arrangement of machinery. I prefer to use consists of an endless band
of gutta percha to which the buckets are affixed. This endless band of gutta

page_text: percha is carried by three rollers. The upper one and the lower one are placed
in the same vertical plane; and in order to adjust the position of the lower
one to the varying height of the water, the axes of the lower roller are
capable of rising and falling in vertical grooves or slides, and the axes of the
third roller are capable of moving in guides or horizontal grooves. This will
readily be understood by the sketch hereunto annexed. And in order to keep
the vertical part of the gutta percha band from vibrating, one or more rollers
intermediate of the upper and lower rollers may be used.
In witness whereof, I, the said Denny Lane, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
TIMOTHY MAHONY, J. P.,
Boro' of Cork.
DENNY LANE. (L.s.)