CERTAIN IMPROVE- MENTS IN PROPELLING VESSELS, AND IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF STEAM ENGINES AND BOILERS APPLICABLE TO PROPELLING VESSELS AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1822

page_text: T. & J. BINNS' SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, WC, THOMAS
BINNS and JONAS BINNS, of Tottenham Court Road, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineers, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Eighteenth day of October 1822, in the third year of His
reign, give and grant unto us, the said Thomas Binns and Jonas Binns,
our exors, adiiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that we, the said Thomas Binns and Jonas Binns, our exors,
adñiors, and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and also in all His Majesty's
Colonies and Plantations abroad, our Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PROPELLING VESSELS, AND IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF STEAM ENGINES
AND BOILERS APPLICABLE TO PROPELLING VESSELS AND OTHER PURPOSES;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if we, the said Thomas
Binns and Jonas Binns, or one of us, shall not particularly describe and ascer-
tain the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the
band and seal of one of us, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six 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, shall utterly cease,
determine, and become void, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Thomas Binns and Jonas Binns, do hereby declare that the nature of our
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are
particularly described and ascertained in and by the Drawings hereunto
annexed, and the following description thereof (that is to say):-
Fig. 1st, front view of the rotary steam engine; N° 1, a front view of the
flanches, which open for packing the pallats working in the cylinder of the
engine. No 2 represents a small steam cylinder to produce a reaction, the
steam being always on the top of the piston, which is raised when the running
pallat opens the reacting pallat, and is instantly shut by the elasticity of the steam
therein; it is intended to work by means of either a double or single cylinder.
No 3 represents the same method as above for either opening or shutting the
steam cock by elasticity of steam. N° 4 represents the packing box and
plummer blocks for the axis of the running pallat to work in. Fig. 2 is a
section of Fig. 1, describing the running and reacting pallats; also the spaces
for packing. See Nos 1 and 2, and Nos 3 and 4, which describe when the
cylinder opens for that purpose. Fig. 3 is an end view of Fig. 1, describing in
what way the packing box and flanching are screwed together, and a, a, a, a,
the nosle where the steam flies off in Figs 1, 2, 3, and 4. Fig. 4, a view of the
cylinder when open for packing; N° 1, the shaft to which the running pallat
is fixed; 2, the running pallat; 3 the reacting pallat. The grooves round the
pallats are to receive the packing, over which iron plates are screwed down to
tighten the same. Fig. 5 represents the axis to which the running pallat is
attached, the shoulders of which receiving the end packing. Fig. 6 represents
the reacting pallat with grooves to receive the packing.
describing in what way it may be used as a rotary pump for air, water, or any
liquids. Fig. 8 represents a metalic packing box to reduce friction by
packing from the centre. Fig. 9 is a section of a steam boiler, the steam in which
is generated partly by means of tubes surrounded by fire and flame. It like-
wise consumes its own smoke, and has in addition to the usual safety valve or
valves, a safety plate, as herein-after explained. No 1, 1, represents the tubes
surrounded by fire and flame. N° 2 a lift or force pump, which causes the water
alternately to pass through the tubes surrounded by fire and flame. No 3 repre-
sents the form of the bottom of the boiler, which forces the smoke upon the fire
and produces combustion, and consequently becomes a very simple and effectual
. smoke consumer. N° 4 represents the flanches, between which a thin metalic
plate is placed, (which is called the safety plate,) calculated to give way at a
much less pressure of steam than any other part of the boiler. The steam
escaping is conveyed by a tube into the chimney, and totally prevents the
Fig. 7 is a plan

page_text: possibility of accident. by explosion. Fig. 10 represents an end view of the
boiler, smoke consumer, pump connected to the fire tubes and the safety plate.
Fig. 11 is a ground plan of the tubes to be surrounded by fire and flame, as
represented in Fig. 9. Fig. 12 is a side view of the tubes, describing the
mode of connecting them to the boiler. Fig. 13 is a plan of moveable fire
bars to work on bearings; when disengaged it drops into the ash-pit, cleaning
the same with greater facility. Fig. 14 represents an end view, a wheel to
propel vessels, describing in what manner the paddles are changed by a plurality
of levers fixed to the axis of the paddles, to which are also attached at the other
ends of the levers friction rollers working in an excentric groove. Fig. 15
is an end view of the frame, describing the excentric groove in which the friction
rollers work, causing the paddles to open at a proper angle for propelling and
closing them again when done. By alternately acting in the way described,
the paddles get clear of the back water. Fig. 16 is a plan of the paddles,
to which the lever is attached, and referred to in Fig. 15. Fig. 17, an end view
of another method of working paddles for propelling vessels, the paddles of
which are always in a vertical position, in consequence of being loaded at the
bottom edge proportionate to the surface of the paddle; in every other respect
the paddle is the same as the one described in Fig. 16, and intended to be
worked with or without guides.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Binns and Jonas Binns, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Seventeenth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventeenth day of April, in the
year of our Lord 1823, the aforesaid Thomas Binns and Jonas Binns, came
before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication aforesaid, and all and everything therein contained and specified, in
form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped accord-
ing to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Eighteenth day of April in the year of
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