IMPROVEMENTS IN CONSTRUCTING, STEAM ENGINES.
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Barrans, of New Cross, Deptford, in the.
County of Kent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONSTRUCTING,
STEAM ENGINES.
"
Sealed the 10th October 1856, and dated the 14th April 1856..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Barrans at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 14th
April 1856.
I, JOSEPH BARRANS, of New Cross, Deptford, in the County of Kent, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONSTRUCTING.
STEAM ENGINES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in constructing steam,
engines. For this purpose, in place of employing an ordinary base plate and
framing for the engine, the lower part or base (by which the engine and
gearing are carried) is made into a hot water tank. Near one end of this tank
the steam cylinder is fixed in a horizontal position, and the bearings or,
carriages for the fly-wheel shaft are fixed near the other end of the tank.
The cross head or end of the piston rod is guided by fixed guides. At the
side of the hot water tank there is a glass water gauge, and if desired a ther-
mometer. The exhaust steam passes from the steam cylinder into the tank,.
through tubes or other passages arranged in the water tank, by which means:
the water therein is heated by the exhaust steam.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Barrans in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th October 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
BARRANS, of New Cross, Deptford, in the County of Kent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Joseph Barrans, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph Barrans, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph
Barrans, 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 CONSTRUCTING
STEAM ENGINES," upon the condition. (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph
Barrans, 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 Joseph Barrans, 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
thercof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in constructing steam engines.
For this purpose, in place of employing an ordinary base plate and framing
for the engine, the lower part or base (by which the engine and gearing are
carried) is made into a hot water tank. Near one end of this tank the
steam cylinder is fixed in a horizontal position, and the bearings or carriages
for the fly-wheel shaft are fixed near the other end of the tank. The cross
head or end of the piston rod is guided by fixed guides. At the side of the
hot water tank there is a glass water guage, and, if desired, a thermometer.
The exhaust steam passes from the steam cylinder into the tank, through tubes
or other passages arranged in the water tank, by which means the water
therein is heated by the exhaust steam.

page_text: Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews a side elevation, and Figure 2 an end elevation, and
Figure 3 a plan of a steam engine, constructed according to my Invention.
The Drawing clearly shows the arrangement of steam engine I prefer, but I
make no claim thereto, as other engines with different base plates or bases
have before been constructed. The arrangement, also, of the engine may be
varied without departing from my Invention.
a, a, is a tank, which constitutes the base of engine; the shape of this tank
may be varied, so long as it is made suitable for acting as a hot water tank,
and of having a horizontal steam cylinder and the bearing of the engine shaft
fixed thereto, as shewn. The exhaust steam passes from the steam cylinder b
into the tank, and pervades the upper part thereof, or it passes through a
pipe or pipes immersed in the water in the tank, so as to heat the water
supplied thereto, by which a constant quantity of hot water is kept up, from
which the boiler of the engine is supplied. c is an outlet for the waste steam,
not condensed, to escape; d is a water guage to indicate the height of water
in the tank.
What I claim is the combining a steam engine with a hot water tank, as
herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Barrans, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
JNO. SANDOM,
Deptford.
JOSEPH BARRANS. (L.S.)