APPARATUS FOR UTILISING WIND PRESSURE TO INDUCE ELECTRICITY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1884

page_text: We, WILLIAM KNIBB HILLYARD of 57 Saint Paul's Churchyard, London,
Secretary to School of Artistic Dress Cutting, and GEORGE NEWNES of Wildcroft,
Putney, in the County of Surrey, gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of
said invention for "APPARATUS FOR UTILISING WIND PRESSURE TO INDUCE
ELECTRICITY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES" to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a method of obtaining power to induce electricity by
means of a wind wheel in conjunction with a water wheel. When the wind force
is not being utilised for the ordinary purposes of driving machinery, it is used to
pump water into a reservoir. This water is released so that it drives a turbine or
water wheel below it and turns it.
Apparatus according to this invention can be arranged as follows:-
On an inclined shaft able to turn in suitable bearings arranged so as to turn on
a frame is fixed a wind wheel or series of sails. This shaft is geared to a vertical
shaft, which in turn by suitable gear drives a third shaft from which by suitable
means such as a belt, a fourth shaft, which we will call the main shaft, may be
driven.
A clutch is provided to throw in and out of gear with each other the vertical
shaft and the third shaft...
From the main shaft, one or more electric generators or other machines may be
driven.
A tank or reservoir is provided at a suitable elevation, and the windmill is made
to drive when desired a pump or pumps whereby water is pumped up into the tank
or reservoir.
From the tank or reservoir or tanks or reservoirs is a pipe or pipes to a suitable
motor or motors that can be operated by liquid pressure. Thus, such motor or
motors can be used to drive the main shaft and through it any machines that may
be desired to work when the windmill is not in operation it being understood that
at such times the windmill may be put out of gear with the third shaft.
Or in some cases the windmill may remain in gear so that it and the motor or
motors driven by the liquid pressure may co-operate in doing any given work
A receptacle is or may be provided to receive the exhaust liquid from the motor,
so that the same can be pumped back into the tank or reservoir or tanks or
reservoirs above for re-use in driving the motor or motors Suitable fast and loose
pulleys are provided where necessary as for instance on the main shaft.
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W. LLOYD WISE,
Applicants' Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
MOITAUI 952
We, WILLIAM KNIBB HILLYARD, late of 57
Paul's Churchyard, London
late Secretary to School of Artistic Dress Cutting but now of Scientific Dress
Cutting Association 272 Regent Circus, in the County of Middlesex, and GEORGE
NEWNES of Wildcroft, Putney, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman; do hereby
declare the nature of said invention, for," APPARATUS FOR UTILISING WIND
PRESSURE TO INDUCE ELECTRICITY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:
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This invention relates to a method of obtaining power to induce électricity by
means of a wind wheel in conjunction with a water wheel. When the wind force
is not being utilised for the ordinary purposes of driving machinery, it is used to
pump water into a reservoir. This water is.released so that it drives a turbine or
water wheel below it and turns it.
Apparatus according to this invention can be arranged as follows:
On an inclined shaft able to turn in suitable bearings arranged so as to turn on
a frame is fixed a wind wheel or series of sails. This shaft is geared to a vertical
shaft, which in turn by suitable gear drives a third shaft from which by suitable
means such as a belt, a fourth shaft, which we will call the main shaft may be
driven.
A clutch is provided to throw in and out of gear with each other the vertical
shaft and the third shaft.
From the main shaft, one or more electric generators or other machines may be
driven.
A tank or reservoir is provided at a suitable elevation, and the windmill is made
to drive when desired a pump or pumps whereby water is pumped up into the
tank or reservoir,
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From the tank or reservoir or tanks or reservoirs is a pipe or pipes to a suitable
motor or motors that can be operated by liquid pressure. Thus such motor or
motors can be used to drive the main shaft and through it any machines that may
be desired to work when the windmill is not in operation it being understood that
at such times the windmill may be put out of gear with the third shaft...
Ör in some cases the windmill may remain in gear so that it and the motor or
motors driven by the liquid pressure may co-operate in doing any given work.
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A receptacle is or may be provided to receive the exhaust liquid from the motor,
so that the same can be pumped back into the tank or reservoir or tanks or
reservoirs 'above for re-use in driving the motor or motors. Suitable fast and loose
pulleys are provided where necessary, as for instance on the main, shaft.
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In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings Fig 1 is a side view of
apparatus according to this invention and Fig 2 is an end view of the same with
one of the e water tanks or reservoirs removed.
a is the inclined shaft turning in bearings b carried by a frame c which can itself
rotate when necessary upon the top of the support d. e is the wind wheel secured
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page_text: to one end of the shaft a and provided with any suitable governor for regulating
its motion. f is the vertical shaft geared to the shaft a by the bevel wheels g, and
to a third shaft h by bevel wheels i. jis a clutch for putting the bevel wheels i
and shaft in and out of gear with the shaft h. The shaft is supported in
bearings h¹ carried by cross beams secured to the support d. k is a belt for
transmitting motion from the shaft h to the main shaft 1. m is a dynamo electric
machine driven from the main shaft by a belt n. o is the rotary pump driven
from the main shaft by the belt o¹ to pump water into the tanks or reservoirs p
when the whole of the power of the wind wheel is not utilised in driving dynamo
or other machines. The tanks or reservoirs p are suitably supported by framing q.
is a pipe connecting the tanks or reservoirs. s is a turbine or fluid pressure motor
that may be worked by water from the tanks or reservoirs p when the wind wheel
is at rest, or in conjunction therewith when necessary.
8¹ is a vertical shaft driven by the turbine its motion being transmitted to the
main shaft by a belt t. t' is a clutch for throwing the turbine into gear with the
shaft 1.8 is a flume pipe for feeding the turbine with water; it is provided with
a regulating valve, not shown, of any convenient kind. 2 is a receptacle into which
the spent water of the turbine discharges and from which it is again raised to the
tanks or reservoirs by the pump o v, v, are sets of fast and loose pulleys for
throwing the driving and driven parts in and out of gear. The gearing is
preferably so proportioned that the main shaft 7 may be driven at the same speed
whether it be actuated by the wind wheel direct or by the fluid pressure motor or
motors.
The fluid pressure motor or motors may be advantageously placed at a lower
level than that upon which the remaining portions of the apparatus rest when the
nature of the locality where it is employed will admit of this being done.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
1. Utilising wind pressure to induce electricity and for other purposes by means
of apparatus comprising a wind-mill, a pump or pumps, a tank or reservoir or
tanks or reservoirs and a liquid pressure motor or motors the arrangement being
such that when the windmill is in operation its power or such part thereof as is
not used directly to drive an electric generator or other machine or machines can
be utilized to store liquid in the tank or reservoir or tanks or reservoirs to be used
for actuating the motor or motors to drive the electric generator or other machine
or machines or the windmill and motor may work simultaneously and co-operate
in doing any given work substantially in the manner described with reference to
and illustrated in the drawings annexed.
2. The apparatus described and shewn for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 7th day of February 1885.
W. K. HILLYARD..
GEO. NEWNES.
W. Lloyd Wise,
Per C. E. Brougham,
Applicants' Agent.