IMPROVEMENTS IN PROPELLING AND STEERING VESSELS WHEN THE FORCE OF WATER IS USED
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Tomlinson Bousfield, of Sussex Place,
Loughborough Road, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PROPELLING AND STEERING VESSELS WHEN THE FORCE OF
WATER IS USED."-A communication.
Sealed the 30th December 1856, and dated the 1st July 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Tomlinson Bousfield
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st July 1856.
I, GEORGE TOMLINSON BOUSFIELD, of Sussex Place, Loughborough Road, in
the County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PROPELLING AND STEERING VESSELS WHEN THE FORCE OF WATER
IS USED," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in propelling and steering
vessels when the force of water is used. For these purposes a vessel is
constructed with waterways from stem to stern below the line of floatation.
Near the head and also near the stern there are right angle branch water-
ways. Steam engines and pumps put the water in motion in the longitudinal
waterways, and, according as the valves are open at the stern or head, so will
the vessel make head or stern way. By opening the valves to the branch
waterways on either side, at the same time closing those at the head and stern,
the vessel may be propelled sideways, and the vessel may be steered by causing
the water to be forced out at the side waterways, thus rendering a rudder
unnecessary.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Tomlinson Bousfield in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 1st January 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
TOMLINSON BOUSFIELD, of Sussex Place, Loughborough Road, in the County of
Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said George
Tomlinson Bousfield, Her special licence that I, the said George Tomlinson
Bousfield, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said George Tomlinson Bousfield, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no other, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PROPELLING AND STEERING VESSELS WHEN THE FORCE OF WATER IS USED,"
(a communication,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George
Tomlinson Bousfield, 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 George Tomlinson Bousfield, 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 propelling and steering
vessels when the force of water is used. For these purposes a vessel is
constructed with waterways from stem to stern below the line of floatation.
Near the head and also near the stern there are right angle branch water-
ways. Steam engines and pumps put the water in motion in the longitudinal
waterways, and, according as the valves are open at the stern or head, so will
the vessel make head or stern way. By opening the valves to the branch
waterways on either side, at the same time closing those at the head and stern,
the vessel may be propelled sideways, and the vessel may be steered by causing

page_text: the water to be forced out at the side waterways, thus rendering a rudder
unnecessary.
And in order that the said Invention may be most fully understood, and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto
5 annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
A, pipes communicating with the sea; B, safety cocks, serving in case of
breaking to shut off the water; C, wheel, fixed to the stem of the plug of the
cock B; D, arm, fixed to one of the radii of the wheel, to facilitate the move-
ment of it; E, rods for closing the spouts A in case of an accident; F, guides
of rods E; G, cocks, having three waterways, and communicating with the
pipes A, of which the orifices give passage to the water forced out by the
propellers to set the vessel in motion forward; H, wheels, fixed on the stems
of the plugs of the cocks G; I, arms for turning the wheels H; J, guides of
the arms I; K, pipes communicating with the pipes A; L, pipes communi-
cating with the sea at the stern, on the larboard and starboard sides; M,
safety cock to operate in case of derangement; N, wheel for turning the
cock; O, plug of the cock M; P, articulated arms for moving the plug O;
Q, guides of the arms P; R, pipes communicating with the cocks; S, cocks,
having three waterways, which are opened to move the stern of the vessel
from larboard to starboard and from starboard to larboard; T, wheel of the
cock S; U, arm for setting in motion the wheel T; V, iron plates, bolted upon
one of the peripheries of the wheel to strengthen the arm; X, guides of the
arm U; Y, longitudinal pipes; Z, cocks, having three waterways, which are
opened to move the head of the vessel from larboard to starboard, and from
starboard to larboard; A, A, wheel of the cocks Z; B, B, rod of the cock Z;
C, C, lever for turning the cocks; D, D, safety cocks to operate in case of
derangement; E, E, arm of the cocks D, D; F, F, wheel of the cocks D, D;
G, G, pipes communicating with the sea at the head of the vessel on the
larboard and starboard sides; H, H, pipes communicating with the cocks; I, I,
junction pipes; J, J, safety cocks to operate in case of derangement; K, K,
wheel of the cocks J, J; L, L, arm of the cocks J, J; M, M, pipes communi-
cating with sea; N, N, pipes connecting the cocks G and the cylinders O, O,
and conducting the water set in motion by the propellers to propel the vessel;
O, O, cylinders containing the propellers; P, P, cover of the cylinders; Q, Q,
stuffing box; R, R, rods of the propellers; S, S, support of the guides; T, T,
guides; U, U, cross head; V, V, connecting rod; X, X, crank; Y, Y, top of
the bearing; Z, Z, bearing; A, B, crank pin; C, D, crank, moved by steam
and giving motion to the propellers; E, F, crank axis; G, H, bearing of the

page_text: crank axis; I, J, bearing; K, L, cast-iron bed plate; M, N, friction roller on
the cross heads of the propeller rods; O, P, grooves of the propellers; Q, R,
friction rollers of the propellers; S, T, propellers; U, V, pin fixing the rod
to the propeller; X, Y, hing of the propellers.
To set this apparatus in motion, it is necessary first to open all the safety
cocks, represented by the letters B, M, D, D, J, J, and immediately after to
open the cocks G, so that the propellers may be in communication with the sea
before the steam engine is put in motion. When the machine is at work, it is
possible, without stopping it, to propel the steamer in all directions, an ad-
vantage which is not offered by any other system yet known. The cocks G
being opened the steamer moves ahead. To go astern it is necessary to open
the larboard and starboard cocks S, bringing the handle to the point marked
"astern," and to close the cocks G. To 'turn round from starboard to larboard
it is necessary to open the cocks Z, placed on the starboard side forward, by
moving the handle as indicated, and also to open the cock S, placed on the
.larboard side at the stern. This movement is effected with so much facility
and regularity, that if the apparatus is left in this position the steamer would
turn round without changing of place. To turn round from larboard to
starboard the reverse operation is necessary, that is to say, it is necessary to
open the cock Z, placed on larboard side forward, and the cock S at the stern
on the starboard side, and to close the cock Z on the starboard side forward,
and the cock S on the larboard side of the stern. Thus the steamer may be
propelled in any direction by changing the arrangement of the apparatus. By
opening the cocks S and Z on the larboard side and closing all others, the
steamer is propelled sideways to starboard, and by opening the cocks S and Z
on the starboard side and closing those on the larboard side the steamer is
propelled sideways to larboard.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Tomlinson Bousfield, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this First day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
REUBEN BROWNING,
of New Court,
St. Swithin's Lane, Gent.
GEO. T. BOUSFIELD. (L.S.).