IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR RAISING OR FORCING WATER
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Wyman Woodford, of Sutherland Street,
Walworth, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR RAISING OR FORCING WATER."
Sealed the 13th January 1863, and dated the 30th July 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Wyman Woodford
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
30th July 1862.
.I, JOHN WYMAN WOODFORD, of Sutherland Street, Walworth, in the-
County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVE-
HENTS IN MACHINERY FOR RAISING OR FORCING WATER," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery for raising or
forcing water. For these purposes a vertical shaft is used, which turns in
suitable bearings above the case or cylinder hereafter mentioned. The lower
end of the shaft is hollow, and it steps on to an upright fixed conical bearing,
by which the shaft is supported. The shaft receives motion from a steam
engine or other power by a strap which acts on a drum or pulley, such drum
or pulley being arranged to be fixed in any required part of the shaft; at its.
lower end the shaft passes through a fixed case or cylinder, which has one,.

page_text: two, or more tangential outlets with rising pipes fixed thereto. When two
tangential outlets are used they are formed at opposite sides of the case or
cylinder. On the lower end of the shaft are fixed two bent or curved arms,
to which bent or curved plates or blades are fixed. These arms and the blades
are curved back from where they spring from, or are affixed to the upright
shaft. The upper cover of the case or cylinder is close except where the shaft
passes through it, whilst in the under cover there is a central opening for the
passage of water into the interior of the case or cylinder. In constructing
framing for this machine four vertical angle irons are used, fixed at the four
angles of the base plate, to which the case or-cylinder is fixed, and these angle
irons are framed or stayed together at intervals. In order that such framing
may be convenient for fixing and unfixing in places where the machine is
to be used, it is preferred that the upright angle irons should be made of
convenient lengths, and be arranged and formed conveniently for the ends
thereof going together and being fixed readily by screw bolts and nuts, or
otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Wyman Woodford in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 30th January 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WYMAN WOODFORD, of Sutherland Street, Walworth, in the County of Surrey,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her. Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of. Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Wyman Woodford, Her special license that I, the said John
Wyman Woodford, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said John Wyman Woodford, 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY POR RAISING OR FORCING WATER," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Wyman Woodford, my

page_text: 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 bo
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 John Wyman Woodford, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the sanie is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
.
This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery for raising or
forcing water. For these purposes a vertical shaft is used, which turns in
suitable bearings above the case or cylinder, hereafter mentioned. The lower
end of the shaft is hollow, it steps on to an upright fixed conical bearing, by
which the shaft is supported. The shaft receives motion from a steam engine
or other power by a strap which acts on a drum or pulley on the shaft, such
drum or pulley being arranged to be fixed in any required part of the shaft; at
its lower end the shaft passes through a fixed case or cylinder, which has one,
When two
two, or more tangential outlets with rising pipes fixed thereto.
tangential outlets are used they are formed at opposite sides of the case or
cylinder. On the lower end of the shaft are fixed two bent or curved arms, to
which bent or curved plates or blades are fixed: Theso arms and the blades
are curved back from where they spring from, or are affixed to the upright
shaft. The upper cover of the case or cylinder is close except where the shaft
passes through it, whilst in the under cover there is a central opening for the
passage of water into the interior of the case or cylinder. In constructing
framing for this machine four vertical angle irons are used, fixed at the four
angles of the base plate, to which the case or cylinder is fixed, and these angle
irons are framed or stayed together at intervals. In order that such framing
may be convenient for fixing and unfixing in places where the machine is
to be used, it is preferred that the upright angle irons should be made of
convenient lengths, and be arranged and formed conveniently for the ends
thereof going together and being fixed readily by screw bolts and nuts, or
otherwise.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed more fully
to describe the manner of performing the same.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
The nature of each of the views shewn by the Drawings being written
thereon it will not be necessary to repeat the same here. It may, however,
be remarked that the same letters of reference are used to indicate the same
parts in all the Figures.
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a, a, are the angle iron uprights of the framing, which are made in conve-
nient lengths, and are connected together by junction pieces b, b, fastened with
screws and nuts; d, d, are perforated plates fixed below the cylinder e of the
pumping apparatus. These perforated plates are used when it is considered
necessary to strain off any substances which might otherwise enter the
cylinder e. The upright framing, composed of the lengths of angle iron a, a,
are braced together at intervals by diagonal and transverse bracings c, c, as
shewn; the bent or diagonal bracings being connected together in the middle,
as shewn. In the Drawings the cylinder e is formed with two tangential
outlets, to which rising discharge pipes k, k, are fixed. Within the cylinder e
two bent or curved arms and fan blades f,f, work, and by their rotation in the
case they cause the water to rise up the pipes k. Each of the arms f, in cases
where the curved arms and blades are liable to become set fast by matters
allowed to pass into the case e (particularly when perforated plates d are not
used), is made in two parts, which are pin-jointed together, as shewn in
Figure 10, by which arrangement, in the event of the arms with their blades
becoming set fast in the case e, the simple act of turning the driving shaft
back will free them, as by such act the blades will be caused to fold on their
pin joints; g is the fixed convex footstep on which the concave or hollow end
of the upright driving shaft steps and turns; h, h, are bearings in which the
upright driving shaft turns. The upright driving shaft is composed of several
lengths, which are connected by couplings j, j. the naturo of which is most
clearly shewn in Figure 9. The upright driving shaft is arranged to receive
motion from a steam engine or other suitable power by means of an endless
strap or band on the pulley b.
Figure 11 shows a side elevation, partly in section, and Figure 12 shows
a transverse section, taken at the dotted lines a, b, in Figuro 11, of a com-
bined arrangement of the parts of the pumping apparatus above described
when it is desired to be used with a horizontal axis or shaft in place of a
vertical one. In this arrangement the cylinder e, within which the fan f.f, s
works, has, as before described, two tangential outlets k, k. The arms and
blades ff, are also formed as before described, but they are on a horizontal

page_text: shaft in place of a vertical one. The cylinder e has a suction pipe e' applied
thereto, which branches off at its upper end, so that the branches rise up to
the top of but outside the cylinder e, as shown, hence the cylinder e will at
all times contain water when the fan f is at rest.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I make no claim to any
of the parts separately; but what I claim is the combined arrangements herein
described; and I also claim the arrangement of rotating arms and blades in a
cylinder having outlets, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Wyman Woodford, have hereunto
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
set
my
J. W. WOODFORD. (L.S.)