A MACHINE OR PUMP FOR RAISING WATER OR OTHER FLUIDS
Year: 1830

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
VAUGHAN, of Cleveland. Street, Mile End Old Town, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of that part of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland called England, bearing date at Westminster,
the Twenty-third day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and thirty, and the tenth of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs
and successors, give and grant unto me, the said George Vaughan, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, and no others, His especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority,. that I, the said George Vaughan,
my executors, administrators, and. assigns, during the term of fourteen years
as therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "A MACHINE OR PUMP FOR RAISING WATER OR OTHER FLUIDS;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said George
Vaughan, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly
to describe and make known the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the above. in part recited Letters Patent,
and in default of which all liberties, privileges, and advantages whatsoever.

page_text: therein granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, ns, by
reference thereto, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Vaughan, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be perforined, is particularly set forth and
explained by the following description, reference being made to the Drawing
hereto annexed, that is to say :-
My Invention of a machine or pump for raising water or other fluids in a
peculiar disposition or arrangement of the valves and piston of a double-action
exhausting and forcing pump, the particulars of which are exhibited in the
Drawing hereto annexed.
.
Figure 1 is a view of the apparatus complete, as it would appear in the
upper side, with the cranks and rods for working the piston, which is placed
horizontally in the box A, A;. Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the same,
taken vertically, shewing the waterways, valves, and piston within the box;
Figure 3 is a transverse; section of the box; taken through the middle; in all
which Figures similar letter refer to corresponding parts of the apparatus.
a is the rising main, through which the water passes from the well or reservoir
into the lower chamber 6, 6, of the box; c and d'are valves opening upward,
for the purpose of allowing the water to flow from the lower part of the box into
the working barrel e, e: The piston fmoves horizontally to and fro in the barrel,
for the purpose of producing an exhaustion behind it, which causes the water
to rise into the barrel, and also for the purpose of forcing the water before it
out of the barrel through the upper valves g and into the upper chamber i,
from whence it flows away or is raised through the pipe k. The mode by which
I propose: to work the piston of this pump is by attaching to the outer end
of the piston rod two crank rods l;t; connected together by a cross bar m, the
reverse ends of which rods are attached to the cranks n, n, and the motion
is given by winches affixed to the ends of the crank shaft o worked' by manual
labor or by a rigger or toothed gear affixed to the crank shaft, which may be
driven by steam or other power:
I do not intend to confine myself to this particular mode of actuating the
pumps, as various other modes may be devised, though not possessing equal
facilities, according to my opinion: The requisite power being applied, the
piston f is made to reciprocate; and when proceeding in that direction which
is toward the right hand in the Drawing, Figures 1 and 2; the vacuum being
behind the piston, the valve c will rise and the water will flow from the main
into the box and through the aperture of the valve c'into the barrel, following
the piston; when by the returning stroke the piston proceeds toward the left

page_text: hand, the valve c will close and the valve d open; the water then following the
piston will pass through the aperture of d into the barrel, while that water
which was taken into the barrel by the previous stroke is now forced out, by the
advance of the piston, through the valve g. This operation being continued
causes the water at every stroke to rise up the main into the vacuum in the
barrel formed behind the piston, and to be expelled through the upper valves
alternately by the force of the piston. In order to prevent the piston wearing
unequally on the lower side I continue the piston rod as at p, providing a
hollow tube 9 for it to pass into, and support the piston rod upon an antifriction
pully r. At the reverse end of the piston rod I attach antifriction rollers 5, 8,
running in guides t, t, and secure the piston rod in the box by a suitable stuffing
as at u.
I have described by the Figures in the Drawing a rectangular box, with a
curved top, but I do not mean to confine myself to that particular shape,
as a box of any other convenient shape would perhaps answer equally well;
neither do I intend to confine myself to a square piston, as a circular piston
in a cylindrical barrel might answer the same purpose.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Vaughan, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty.
GEORGE (L.S.) VAUGHAN.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twentieth day of March, in
the eleventh year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, the
said George Vaughan came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the
fifty-fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twenty-second day of March, One thousand eight hundred
and thirty.