Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Raising Water and Converting the same into Available Power.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Nov., 1899-Accepted, 30th Dec., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Raising Water and
Converting the same into Available Power.
I, EDMOND PRATT JENNER, Gentleman, residing at Eunice, in the County of Saint
Landry, and the State of Louisiana, of the United States of America, do hereby:
declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention relates to apparatus for raising water for irrigating purposes
and use in the industrial arts as a motor agent or in any desired manner.
The apparatus consists of a submerged tank or box, a hydraulic ram located
in the said tank and adapted to discharge the spent water therein, a pump for
keeping the submerged tank free from the waste water and preventing accu-
mulation thereof, a curb provided with one or more turbine water wheels and
having water supplied thereto, means for operating the said punip from the
turbine wheels, and one or more hydraulic rams operated by the waste water
from the said curb and adapted to elevate a portion of the waste water for
irrigating purposes or return it to the curb to be used over again in the operation
of the turbine wheels.
The invention will be more particularly set forth hereinafter, outlined in
the subjoined claims and illustrated in the drawing which is a diagrammatical
view.
The tank or box 1 may be of any desired form and size and is immersed in
water to any required depth according to the desired head or pressure for
operating the hydraulic ram 2 located therein at the lowest practicable point
to make allowance for the waste water from the ram. The water in which the
tank 1 is submerged may be a spring, lake, stream, well or other body of water,
the submerging providing for the head necessary to operate the ram.
The ram 2 may be of any pattern, make or style of appliance for raising
water above its head. The inflow pipe 3 passes through the tank and is controlled ..
by a valve 4 operated from above by means of a handle 5 applied to its stem.
The outflow pipe 6 rises from the tank and discharges the water at the desired
point, which in the present instance is the curb 7, the waste water from the ram
escapes through the pipe 8 into the tank 1 from which it is drawn off by means
of a pump 9 operated in any convenient way.
The curb 7 is subdivided by horizontal partitions 10 into compartments
which are vertically disposed in superposed relation. A vertical shaft II is
journalled in the partitions and is provided with turbine or motor wheels 12
attached thereto and rotatable therewith. The water discharged into the top-
most compartment of the curb actuates the uppermost wheel 12 and descends
nto the next compartment and operates the next motor wheel. the water con-
inuing its descent and actuating all the wheels of the series. Pipes 13 convey
he spent water from one compartment to the other. Power is taken from the
haft 11 for any purpose and as shown utilized for operating the pump 9. A
haft 14 is geared to the shaft 11 and has a crank 15 at its outer end to which

page_text: the pump rod 16 is connected. A pipe 17 conveys the water from the pump to
the desired point which may be the curb 7.
The water after acting on the lowermost wheel 12 of the series is further
utilized for effective work and is conveyed by one or more pipes 18 to hydraulic
rams 19 by which a certain percentage of the water is elevated for efficient
work, the spent water escaping into the body of water in which the tank is
submerged. Pipes 20 convey the water from. the rams 19 to the desired point
of use which may be the curb 7, as shown.
The shaft 14 is extended beyond the curb at the end remote from the crank 15
and is provided with a band pulley 21 from which power may be taken for
driving any desired machinery. It will thus be seen that the apparatus can
be used for raising water and as a motor. Power may be taken from the
band pulley 22 applied to the upper end of the shaft 11 if desired.
The power is derived chiefly from the rams 19 above the water line, after
every thing is full above as all water goes through the turbines. The ram 2
is large and the waste water from the rams 19 above the water line is utilized
to increase the power for running machinery, and if only irrigating it utilizes
a large amount of the waste water, thereby increasing the pumping capacity,
the balance returning to the reservoir.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1 In combination, a submerged tank, a hydraulic ram located in the lower
portion of the tank and having an inflow pipe extending through a side thereof,
and wasting into the said tank, and means for drawing the waste water from
the said tank, substantially as described.
Y
2 In combination, a submerged tank, a hydraulic ram located in the tank
and adapted to discharge the waste water therein and having an inflow pipe
extending through a side of the tank and provided with a valve adapted to
be controlled from above, means for withdrawing the water from the tank, a
motor for operating said water exhausting means, and a pipe for conveying the
water from the said ram to the motor, substantially as specified.
3-In combination, a submerged tank, a hydraulic ram located in the lower
portion of the tank and having an inflow pipe extending through a side thereof
and wasting into the said tank, a water motor comprising a curb and a turbine
wheel, and means for conveying the water from the aforesaid ram to the motor,
substantially as specified.
4-In combination, a submerged tank, a hydraulic ram located in the lower
portion of the tank and having an inflow pipe extending through a side thereof
and wasting into the said tank, a curb sub-divided by horizontal partitions, a
vertical shaft located within the curb, turbine wheels secured to the shaft,
means for conveying the water to the curb, and further means for conveying
the water from one compartment to the curb of the other, substantially as
specified.
5 In combination, a submerged tank, a hydraulic ram located in the lower
portion of the tank and having an inflow pipe extending through a side thereof
and wasting into the said tank, a pump for clearing the tank of the waste
water, a motor receiving the water from the pump and connected therewith for
operation, and a hydraulic ram operated by means of the spent water from the
motor, substantially as described.
1
1000
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.