IMPROVEMENTS IN TUF MECHANICAL ADDANGEMENT FOR RAISING AND FORCING OF WATER OR LETTERS PATENT AR OTHER FID,." OF FOR OR OTHER FLUID,, ORGASSES
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Falconer, Wright, residing at 68, Causeyside,
Paisley, in the County of Renfrew, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN TUF MECHANICAL ADDANGEMENT FOR RAISING AND FORCING OF WATER OR
LETTERS PATENT to David Falconer, Wright, residing at 68, Causeyside,
Paisley, in the County of Renfrew, for the Invention of “IMPROVEMENTS
IN MUP MECHANICAL ARRANGEMENT ROD RATSING AND FORCING OF WATER AR
OTHER FLUID, AIR, OR GASSES."
OF MECHANICAL ARRANGEMENT FOR RAISING AND FORCING OF WATER OR
OTHER FLUID, AIR, OR GASSES."
Sealed the 28th July 1857, and dated the 9th February 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Falconer at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th February 1857.
I, DAVID FALCONER, Wright, 68, Causeyside, Paisley, in the County of
Renfrew, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MECHANICAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR RAISING AND FORCING OF WATER
OR OTHER FLUID, AIR, OR GASSES," to be as follows; & consists, primarily, in
causing the tube through which the fluid passes or is made to pass to oscillate;
this pipe being double, or forked at one end, and each fork being in com-
munication with an elastic or collapsible chamber, made of leather, india-
rubber, or other suitable material. In each chamber there is a valve opening
inwards, and communicating with the pipe or tube descending into the fluid to
be raised, and in each fork is a valve opening upwards; consequently, as the
pipe or tube above the collapsible chambers is caused to oscillate, the fluid is
drawn up into the chambers and forced upwards or onwards at cacli oscillation

page_text: of the pipe or tube. This arrangement will serve up to 30 or 100 feet, but
above that I prefer to use two plungers with valves opening upwards instead of
the collapsible chambers. To effect a uniformity of action, air vessels or
chambers may be attached to or communicate with the apparatus.
:
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said David Falconer in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th August 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DAVID
FALCONER, Wright, residing at 68, Causeyside, Paisley, in the County of
Renfrew, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the 9th day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
David Falconer, Her special licence that I, the said David Falconer, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said. David
Falconer, 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, aad
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MECHANICAL
ARRANGEMENT FOR RAISING AND FORCING OF WATER OR OTHER FLUID, AIR, OR GASSES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said David Falconer, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one or their hands and scals, 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 David Falconer, 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 follow-
ing statement:-
This Invention consists, primarily, in causing the tube through which
the fluid passes or is made to pass to oscillate; this pipe being double,
or forked at one end, and cach fork being in communication with an

page_text: elastic or collapsible chamber, made of leather, india-rubber, or other
suitable material. In each chamber there is a valve opening inwards,
and communicating with the pipe descending into the fluid to be raised,
and in each fork is a valve opening upwards; consequently, as the pipe or
tube above the collapsible chambers is caused to oscillate, the fluid is drawn
up into the chambers and forced upwards or onwards at each oscillation of the
pipe or tube. This arrangement will serve up to 60 or 100 feet, but above
that I prefer to use two plungers with valves opening upwards instead of the
collapsible chambers. To effect a uniformity of action, air vessels or chambers
may be attached to or communicate with the apparatus.
In the design A of the annexed Drawings the two forked legs of the oscilla-
ting pipe are seated on collapsible chambers, composed of leather, india-rubber,
or other suitable material. There is a valve in each of these chambers,
opening inwards and communicating with the pipe descending into the fluid to
be raised, and in each fork there is also a valve opening upwards, consequently
as the pipe or tube is made to oscillate, the water or other fluid, air, or gases
(as may be), are drawn up into the chambers and forced upwards or onwards
at each oscillation of the pipe or tube. This arrangement will serve up to 60
or 100 feet, but above that I prefer and adopt an arrangement, as shown in B,
where there are two plungers having valves opening upwards, substituted for
the collapsible vessels, or as at C, where the arrangement will both lift and
force. In A the movement of the oscillating pipe is provided for by the intro-
duction of a piece of flexible tube at D. In B & C this movement is provided
for by the joints E, F. I use manual or mechanical power to oscillate the
tube, as may be required, and I place an air vessel at G, or other part of
the pipe or tube as may be found of service, for the uniform action of the
arrangement.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which it may be carried into effect, I claim the within-described arrangement
or mechanical construction of machinery for raising and forcing water or other
fluid.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Falconer, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of August; in the year of our Lord One
thousand cight hundred and fifty-seven.
DAVID FALCONER. (L.S.)