FOR RAISING WATER, BY THE APPLICATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF A WELL-KNOWN POWER, PROM MINES, EXCAVATIONS, HOLDS OF SHIPS OR VESSELS, AND OTHER PLACES WHERE WATER MIGHT BE DEPOSITED OR ACCUMULATED, WHETHER FROM ACCIDENTAL OR NATURAL CAUSES, AND ALSO APPLYING SUCH POWER TO AND IN GIVING MOTION TO CERTAIN MACHINERY
Year: 1836

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HAGUE, of Cable Street, Wellclose Square, in the Parish of Saint George in
the East, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Ninth day of May, in the sixth year of His reign, did, for
Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
Hague, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said John Hague, my exors, adñiors, and
assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said John
Hague, my exors, adiñiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
and within all His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention
"FOR RAISING WATER, BY THE APPLICATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF A WELL-KNOWN
POWER, PROM MINES, EXCAVATIONS, HOLDS OF SHIPS OR VESSELS, AND OTHER PLACES
WHERE WATER MIGHT BE DEPOSITED OR ACCUMULATED, WHETHER FROM ACCIDENTAL
OR NATURAL CAUSES, AND ALSO APPLYING SUCH POWER TO AND IN GIVING MOTION TO
CERTAIN MACHINERY;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso that if I, the said John Hague, should not particularly describe and

page_text: ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the
saine to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then
the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby
granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the
same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Hague, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascer-
tained in and by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and the following description
thereof (that is to say):-
In the said Drawing, Figure 1 is a vertical section of a pit or shaft of a
mine with my machinery affixed therein, and Figure 2 an end view and
section of the same apparatus; the letters of reference indicating the similar
parts in both Figures. A, A, represent the pit or shaft; B, the water accu-
mulated at the bottom of the shaft; C, C, C, C, C, close or air-tight vessels,
tanks, or cistern. These may be placed above each other at any distance under
the atmospheric pressure, and may be made of any convenient shape or form
suitable to the purposes required; they may also be made of cast iron or
wrought iron, or of copper, wood, or any other fit and proper materials which
may be best calculated for the purpose, but I prefer cast iron. D is a metal
pipe or strainer, which is also termed a suction pipe or wind bore, being per-
forated all over its lower part with holes to admit the water; but to prevent
the passage of large bodies into the pipe, on the upper end of this pipe D is
placed a valve E, opening so as to suffer the water to flow into the tank or
cistern, but also closing when the cistern is full, to prevent the return of the
water. F, F, F, F, are four pipes or rising mains, the lower end of each
being connected with a valve box G, G, G, G, placed at the bottoms of the
tanks or cisterns, their upper ends passing through the bottoms of the
cisterns above them, and rising a little above the said bottoms. The valves
in the boxes G, G, G, G, open inwards, to allow the water to ascend through
the pipes F, F, F, F, but close to prevent it from returning into the tanks
or cisterns. From the uppermost tank or cistern a spout II, with a valve at
its end opening outwardly, proceeds to discharge the water so raised to the
surface. I, I, I, I, I, Figure 1, represent five three-way cocks and their
appendages; these cocks are mounted in branch pipes, which proceed from a
main exhausting or vacuum pipe J, J, J, J, J, J, which is connected with an
air vessel or receiver K. This main exhausting pipe is better seen at J, J, in

page_text: Figure 2. The conical plugs of these three-way cocks are put into motion in
the following manner :-L, L, L, L, L, Figure 1, are five hollow copper boxes or
floats, of sufficient buoyancy to raise the balls of the tumblers M, M, M, M, M,
from their state of rest past their centre of gravity, and as shewn on a larger
scale in Figure 3 by the dotted lines. These floats are caused to slide freely
upon metal rods, which are passed through holes formed in the centres of the
floats. At the lower ends of these rods are formed stops for the floats to rest
upon when the water in the tanks or cisterns is discharged. At the upper
ends of these rods are affixed toothed racks, such as that shewn on a larger
scale at N in Figure 3; these racks act in toothed sectors, similar to that
shown at O in Figure 3, and are kept in gear by the guide rollers P at their
backs. The rods pass through stuffing boxes, mounted upon the tops of the
cisterns, and as shown at Q in Figures 3 and 4. The tumblers M, M, M, M, M,
are each mounted upon a separate axis, turning in bearings mounted upon
standards or pillars, and as shewn more clearly in Figure 4. Upon each axis
is also affixed the toothed sector O, as is shewn in Figure 3. Upon one of
the arms of this sector O is affixed a pin R, which projects within a circular
gap S in the plate or flanch T affixed upon the conical plug of the cock I,
as shewn in Figure 3. At each end of the gap S are, stops, against which
the pin R falls when the tumbler M has passed its centre of gravity. Besides
the stops at the bottoms of the rods upon which the floats, rest, there also
others affixed at a proper distance above, as shewn at U, U, in Figure 1.
When the water is rising in the tanks or cisterns, the floats, rise with it, and
acting against the stops U, U, carry the rods upwards with them, and also the
toothed racks at their upper ends, which, acting in the toothed sectors 0, 0,
cause the tumblers M, M,, to pass their centres of gravity, and fall against
one of the stops in the gap S, and turn the plug I of the cock, so as to shut
off the vacuum and open the passage to the atmosphere. When the water is
discharged from the tanks, the floats, by their weight, and being lodged upon
the stops at the lower ends of the rods, cause the tumblers to again act in the
reverse way, and re-open the cocks, so as to shut off the communication with
the atmosphere, and open the passage to the main vacuum pipe, and as shewn
at Figure 6. Figure 3 is a front view of the cock and appendages; Figure
4, a side view of the same; Figure 5, a top view thereof, shewing the tumbler
by its pin or stud R, acting upon the plug of the cock; and Figure 6 is a
section through the barrel and plug of the cock and the vacuum pipe, shewn
upon a larger scale. The air vessel or receiver K is connected or united
with an air pump or pumps, which is or are worked either by steam, water,
wind, animal, or other power or first mover. This receiver K may be placed

page_text: at any convenient distance from the mouth of the pit or shaft, and be con
nected with the vacuum pipe J, J, by extending that pipe accordingly; or i
may also be made to connect with several vacuum pipes by similar incans
At the lowest tank or cistern C of Figure 1, V is a cock mounted in the
branch pipe leading from the cock I to the main vacuum pipe J. To a lever
mounted upon the plug of the cock V, a rod W is affixed at its farther end.
This rod descends through two guides affixed on the outside of the tank C;
it has a stop at its lower end, and another at a proper distance above it. Upon
this rod, and between the stops, a hollow copper float X is mounted, which
can slide freely up and down between the two stops; this float lies upon the
surface of the water in the pit or shaft, rising and falling with it. When the
water gets so low as to allow the float to rest upon the stop at the bottom of
the rod, the weight of the float shuts the cock V, and prevents the suction
pipe or wind bore D from drawing air. When the water in the pit or shaft
accumulates, it raises the float X until it acts against the upper stop on the
rod, which re-opens the cock and puts the machinery again into action, and
which continues until the water again falls too low, as above mentioned. In
case of a steam engine being employed as a first moving power, an inverted
syphon, filled with mercury, may be connected on one side with the main vacuum
pipe leading from the air pump, and have a float resting in the mercury in
the other leg, from which a rod may proceed, connected with a lever mounted
upon the axis of a throttle valve placed in the pipe, which brings the steam'
from the boiler to the engine, and thus, by regulating the supply of steam,
retards or accelerates the motion of the steam engine. Although the pit or
shaft may be miles distant from the steam engine, yet the float X in the
water at the bottom of the pit becomes the regulator of tlie motion of the
steam engine. In case of having to raise water from excavations, holds of
ships or vessels, or where the depth is not so great as the atmospheric pressure,
one lift will be found sufficient, and the air pump may be frequently worked,
even by hand or by the power of horses.
To apply my said Invention to give motion to certain machinery, such for
instance as whimsies, for raising coals or ores or other substances from pits
or shafts, and also for actuating stamping mills, crushing or grinding mills,
cotton or woollen machinery, gunpowder mills, towing of canal boats, locomotive
carriages on common and rail roads, ploughs, thrashing machines, rolling mills
for metal and other substances, paper mills, turning and boring lathes,
blowing engines, and saw mills, I cause the vacuum to act upon one or both
sides of the pistons working in cylinders after the manner of steam engines,
in the same manner as described in a Patent formerly granted to me for

page_text: working cranes and tilt hammers or forge hammers, and which therefere
need not be more particularly described here.
I do not mean or intend hereby to claim as my Invention any particular
forms or arrangements of machinery, nor any of the parts herein shewn and
described, which may have already been used, but only in connection in the
manner herein shewn and discribed; but I do hereby claim as my Invention,
the raising of water without its entering the working barrels of pumps.
I do not mean or intend hereby to confine or limit myself to the employ-
ment of any particular material or materials in the construction of the
different parts of the apparatus, but to employ any which are fit and proper
for the purpose.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Hague, have hereunto set my band
and seal, the Twenty-third day of June, in the year of our Lord One