IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR RAISING WATER AND OTHER LIQUIDS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Walton, of Staines, in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
RAISING WATER AND OTHER LIQUIDS."
Sealed the 8th September 1864, and dated the 10th March 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Walton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 10th
March 1864.
I, FREDERICK WALTON, of Staines, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR.
RAISING WATER AND OTHER LIQUIDS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery for raising
water and other liquids. For this purpose two endless belts are employed
passing over pullies which are driven in any convenient manner. Two of the
pulleys are immersed partially or entirely in the water or liquid to be raised,
and the other two pullies are placed at or near the level to which it is desired to
raise the liquid. The pulleys are so arranged that the ascending portions of the
endless belts come opposite to each other at only a short distance apart, and if
the belts are long these portions of them are supported at intervals by friction
pulleys to prevent them separating the one from the other. Belts thus
arranged and driven with raised water or liquids more or less efficiently; I
however render it more effective by forming the bands with flexible lips or
flaps. To each edge of the bands a lip or flap is attached all round, or the

page_text: lip or flap may be a portion of the band turned over on itself, and as the bands
pass over the pulleys the lips or flaps fold down flat on the outside of the band;
at other times, however, they stand out more or less from it, and in the parts
of the bands which are brought face to face, as before mentioned, the lips or
flaps come in contact the one with the other, so as to make an enclosed
passage or tube which when the apparatus is at work is constantly travelling
upwards; thus the water or liquid is prevented falling back away from the
bands, as it otherwise would do to some extent. In order also to increase
the hold of the bands on the water or liquid I make them with transverse
ridges of vulcanized india-rubber or flexible material, these ridges fold down
flat as the bands pass. Doctors or scrapers which take the water or liquid off
the bands when it is on the top pullies to prevent its descending again with
the bands.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Frederick Walton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
10th September 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
WALTON, of Staines, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Frederick Walton, Her special licence that I, the said Frederick
Walton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Frederick Walton, 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
MACHINERY FOR RAISING WATER AND OTHER LIQUIDS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Frederick Walton, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Frederick Walton, 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 has for its object improvements in machinery for raising
water and other liquids. For this purpose two endless belts are employed
passing over pulleys which are driven in any convenient manner. Two of the
pulleys are immersed partially or entirely in the water or liquid to be raised,
and the other two pulleys are placed at or near the level to which it is desired
to raise the liquid. The pulleys are so arranged that the ascending portions
of the endless belts come opposite to each other at only a short distance apart,
and if the belts are long these portions of them are supported at intervals by
friction pulleys to prevent them separating the one from the other. Belts
thus arranged and driven will raise water or liquids more or less efficiently; I
however render it more effective by forming the bands with flexible lips or
flaps. To each edge of the bands a lip or flap is attached all round, or the lip
or flap may be a portion of the band turned over on itself, and as the bands
pass over the pulleys the lips or flaps fold down flat on the outside of the band ;.
at other times, however, they stand out more or less from it, and in the parts
of the bands which are brought face to face, as before-mentioned, the lips or
flaps come in contact the one with the other, so as to make an inclosed passage
or tube which when the apparatus is at work is constantly travelling upwards;
thus the water or liquid is prevented falling back away from the bands, as it
otherwise would do to some extent. In order also to increase the hold of the
bands on the water or liquid I make them with transverse ridges of vulcanized
india-rubber or flexible material. Doctors or scrapers take the water or
liquid off the bands when it is on the top pulleys to prevent its descending again
with the bands.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention I will proceed more fully to
describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a vertical section of machinery combined according to my
Invention Figures 2 and 3 show two horizontal sections; and Figure 4 part
of a vertical section of endless belts used.
a, a, and b, b, are the two endless belts used which pass under pulleys c, c, and
over pulleys d, d. The endless belt a, a, has fixed at its outer edges flexible
lips or flaps a', a', and if the belts are wide it is preferred to have other like
flexible lips or flaps a², 2, parallel with the ones a', a', so that between the

page_text: points where the pulleys b, b, c, c, nip the two endless bands there is one or
more enclosed passages between them. c, e, are two friction pulleys used at
intervals when the belts a and b require them. The belts a and b are some-
times, in order to adapt them for different lifts, caused to pass over pulleys d',
as shown by red lines, the pulleys c, c, being raised or lowered by joining on
or taking off a length or lengths of their supports, and the rollers d', being
shifted laterally by a winch in order to take up or let down the length of
bands required. In Figure 2 the endless belts are shown with four hollow
passages between them, whilst in Figure 3 there is only one passage between
them, which is formed by turning the edges of the belts so as to form flaps or
lips longitudinally of the belts. The arrows show the direction in which the
belts are moved when at work. f, f, are transverse ridges which divide the
passages into compartments. These ridges are of vulcanized india-rubber, and
give way to some extent when they pass under the doctors or scrapers g, g,
which prevent the water being thrown off when it arrives at the top, and they
also prevent the water descending with the belts. The doctors are kept
pressed down by weights h, h. The upper rollers d, d, may be geared
together and are driven by a steam engine or other power.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention and the manner of per-
forming the same, I would have it understood that I claim the combined
arrangement herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Walton, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Ninth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
FRED. WALTON. (L.S.)