IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING OR FORCING WATER OR OTHER FLUIDS."
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Bruce Boughton Barker, of Bayswater,
in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING OR FORCING WATER OR OTHER FLUIDS."
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING OR FORCING WATER OR OTHER FLUIDS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Bruce Boughton
Barker, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 22nd September 1860.
I, EDWARD BRUCE BOUGHTON BARKER, of Bayswater, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING OR FORCING WATER, OR OTHER
FLUIDS," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to raise water or other liquids to greater
elevation than ordinary lift pumps are capable of, and by more simple and
economical means than the methods generally adopted to force water or other
liquids to great elevations; and one part of my improvements for this purpose
consists in the arrangement of apparatus for forcing water or other liquids in
a continuous stream by means of compressed air to any desired elevation.
In carrying out this part of my Invention, when it is desired to raise water
from deep mines, I employ a closed divided chamber or chambers having
suitable inlet and outlet valves situated below the level of the water to be
raised. These chambers are connected by pipes, which rise to the elevation to
which the water is to be raised, there are also other pipes having suitable
valves in connection with the closed chambers by which compressed air is
forced by any suitable apparatus into them in order to displace the water
therein, and cause it to flow up the pipe or pipes to the elevation desired.

page_text: Another part of my Invention for raising water or other liquids consists in
the employment of a screw of peculiar form fixed round a vertical axis, which
is caused to rotate rapidly within a tube of the same diameter as the screw,
the lower ends of the tube and screw are placed below the level of the water
to be raised, the length of the tube and screw being equal to the height the
water or other liquid has to be lifted; in some cases it may be desirable to
use a succession of these screws to raise the water or other liquid to the
desired elevation.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Bruce Boughton Barker, in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 22nd March 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
BRUCE BOUGHTON BARKER, of Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Edward Bruce Boughton Barker, Her special licence that I, the said
Edward Bruce Boughton Barker, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Edward Bruce Boughton Barker, 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 OR FORCING
WATER OR OTHER FLUIDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Edward Bruce Boughton Barker, 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 Edward Bruce Boughton Barker, 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 :-

page_text: The object of this Invention is to raise water or other liquids to greater
elevations than ordinary lift pumps are capable of, and by more simple and
economical means than the methods generally adopted to force water or other
liquids to great elevations; and one part of my improvements for this
purpose consists in the arrangement of apparatus for forcing water or other
liquids in a continuous steam by means of compressed air to any desired
elevation.
In carrying out this part of my Invention when it is desired to raise water
from deep mines, I employ a closed divided chamber or chambers having
suitable inlet and outlet valves situated below the level of the water to be
raised. These chambers are connected by pipes which rise to the elevation to
which. the water is to be raised, there are also other pipes having suitable valves
in connection with the closed chambers by which compressed air is forced by
any suitable apparatus into them in order to displace the water therein, and
cause it to flow up the pipe or pipes to the elevation desired in a continuous
stream.
Another part of my Invention for raising water or other liquids consists in
the employment of a screw of peculiar form fixed round a vertical axis, which
is caused to rotate rapidly within a tube of the same diameter as the screw,
the lower ends of the tube and screw are placed below the level of the water
to be raised, the length of the tube and screw being equal to the height the
water or other liquid has to be lifted, in some cases it may be desirable to
use a succession of these screws to raise the water or other liquid to the
desired elevation.
And in order that my Invention may be most fully understood, and readily
practised, I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a vertical section of apparatus suitably arranged according
to my Invention for raising or forcing water from a mine or other
situation to a higher level than ordinary suction pumps are capable of
lifting it.
a is a closed vessel or chamber, divided so as to form two compartments
a', a', which are placed below the level of the water to be raised. Each
chamber or compartment a³, a', is furnished with an inlet valve a², a², for the
passage of the water into the interior of the chambers, and a³, a³, are outlet
pipes up through which the water is forced into the rising pipes b, b, which
conduct it to the height or level required; 61, 61, are foot valves to prevent
the water from passing back into the chambers a¹, a', when the pressurei:

page_text: removed, and they are open to the atmosphere; c, c, are pipes by which com-
pressed air is forced alternately into the chambers a¹, a¹, by means of a powerful
air pump or cylinder d, (shown separately at Figure 2) worked by a steam
engine or other motive power, the pipes c, c, being fixed in connection with
the upper and under surfaces of the piston of the air cylinder d, which is
furnished with suitable inlet and outlet valves d¹, d², as shown, by which means
air will be alternately forced through the pipes c, c, into the chambers a', a¹,
and thus displace the water contained therein and cause it to flow up the
pipes b, b, to the height required, where it will be discharged in a continuous
-stream.
I would here remark that the power and dimensions of the air compressing
cylinder or cylinders & must be regulated according to the beight the column
of water 'has to be raised, and although I have described the use of an
air cylinder or cylinders d for forcing or compressing air in the pipes c, c,
I do not intend to confine myself thereto, as other arrangements of apparatus
for compressing and forcing air through the pipes c, c, in order to displace the
water in the chambers a¹, a', and cause it to flow up the outlet or delivery
pipes b, b, may be employed without departing from my Invention. Neither
do
confine myself to the particular combination of parts shown as they
may be varied without departing from the principle of my Invention.
b
And Figure 3 shows a modification of the apparatus by which arrangement
only one main rising or delivery pipe 6 is required, its lower end being furnished
with suitable foot valve in connection with the pipes 6', 6', which connect it
with the chambers a¹, a¹, as shewn.
I will now describe the second part of my Invention for raising or forcing
water or other fluids.
Figure 4 shows a vertical section of apparatus constructed according to this
part of my Invention.
a is a vertical tube at the lower end of which an open or perforated
chamber a¹ is formed for the admission of the water or other fluid to be raised.
Within the tube a, a vertical shaft or axis 6 is supported in suitable bearings
6, 61, at the top and bottom ends of the tube a. Around the shaft or axis b,
the thread or worm of a screw 62 of peculiar form is fixed, the broad and outer
periphery of the screw just fitting into the tube a, so as to rotate freely therein
without friction upon its inner circumference; a rapid rotatory motion is com-
municated to the shaft or axis 6 by a toothed bevil wheel or pinion c fixed
thereon, which takes into the teeth of the bevil wheel d fixed on the axis d',
which receives motion from a steam engine or other motive power; or rotatory
motion may be given to the axis 6 in any other suitable manner.
The

page_text: rotation of the lower end of the screw below the surface of the water to be
raised in the chamber a¹, causes it to be raised or forced by the inclined surfaces
of the screw 62 up the tube a, at the upper end of which it is delivered in a
continuous stream into the branch pipe a² to the height or level required.
Where the water or other fluid has to be raised to a great height or from very
low levels for the purpose of draining mines, &c., it may be desirable to employ
a series of tubes and rotating screws arranged so as to lift the water from one
level to another; and Figure 5 shews a section of apparatus suitably arranged
for this purpose which will be readily understood on examining the Drawing,
aided by the foregoing description, the corresponding parts being marked with
like letters of reference; Figure 6 shows a section of the form of screws which
I prefer to employ in carrying out this part of my Invention. In cases where
screws of great length are required they may be formed in several parts, which
may be fitted and coupled together in any convenient manner to form one
continuous screw.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be practiced, I would have it understood that I do not confine
myself to the exact details herein described, so long as the peculiar character
of my Invention be retained, neither do I claim the application of compressed
air or the employment of screw apparatus generally for the purpose of raising
or forcing water, other arrangements of apparatus of this description having
before been proposed for this purpose; but what I claim is,―
First, the arrangement of apparatus for raising and forcing water or other
fluids by means of compressed air, as herein described.
Secondly, I claim the arrangement of apparatus for raising or forcing water
as described in respect to Figures 4 and 5 of the Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Bruce Boughton Barker, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of October, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
EDW. D. D. DANKER.
(L.S.)