IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR RAISING AND FORCING WATER AND OTHER LIQUID OR FLUIDS AND TRANSMITTING MOTIVE POWER
Year: 1885

page_text: Motive Power.
I WILLIAM HENRY THOMPSON of Fir Villa, Morley Road Lewisham in the
County of Kent do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR RAISING AND FORCING WATER AND OTHER
LIQUID OR FLUIDS AND TRANSMITTING MOTIVE POWER to be as follows:-
The said Invention has for its object Improvements in the Patent No 75 bearing
date of January 1" and granted to me in the year 1884 by means of which the
apparatus is rendered more effective and useful in its operation by causing the
water or other fluid to take up the desired velocity with greater rapidity and by
arranging an air vessel in the interior of the apparatus into which the water is
switched or diverted direct from the annular water space the air contained in the
said air vessel acting as a cushion receiving or absorbing the force of the water or
fluid directed into it and again expelling the said water or fluid through the outlet
pipes with a force according to the amount of compression it has received from the
water in velocity the usefulness of the apparatus is extended by its combination
and arrangment admitting of its being used as a motor worked by pressure of
water or fluids the capacity of the apparatus for adaption to varied work is
important in many large industries.
The reference letters quoted in the following description refer to parts of the
apparatus described in my Specification No 75: 84.
In carrying my Invention into practice I form or attach an excentric on the
internal case F which excentric is arranged round the centre and on the side of the
said case and is fitted with an excentric band or strap and two rods each of which
connect the excentric with a lever or crank on a shaft working in a recess or
chamber in the periphery of the annular water space A¹ and carrying a radiating
plate extending across the said water space which plate is connected to the shaft
by a suitable webb or rods in such a manner as to have a radial movement from
the oscilating motion imparted to the said shaft by its connection with the
excentric which is stationary and the excentric strap is carried round it by the
rotary case A to which it is attached by its connection with the radiating plates
in the annular water space A¹ the excentric is so set as to cause each of the

page_text: radiating plates at every revolution of the rotary case aforesaid to move or radiate
into the annular water space and during a part of such revolution to urge the
water forward and cause or assist it to take up the motion or speed of the rotary
case or annular water space and then to radiate or recede into the hereinbefore
mentioned recess or chamber in the periphery of the annular water space so as to
leave the water way open and clear the switch or diverting door H the excentric
rods are placed on the opposite sides of the circle of the excentric strap leading to
the radiating plates which are on opposite sides of the aforesaid annular water
space and so operating that while one plate is receeding clear of the water way the
other is moving or radiating into it arranged in this manner they better balance
the apparatus and there is always one plate in action although this arrangment
employs only two raditing plates when found desirable any number may be
arranged at suitable distances around the annular water space aforesaid and may
be connected to and worked by the same excentric strap.
For some purposes I bolt the tail piece I to the internal case F so that it retains
the switch or diverting door H open and fixed in that position for any desired
period and when desirable instead of using a radiating or movable plate in the
water way of the annular water space I employ a plate fixed in and across the
water way for urging the water forward to take up the velocity of the rotary case
aforesaid and avoid the said fixed plate coming in contact with the switch by
working the said switch with an automatic motion in such a manner that the
switch or diverting door closes on the approach of the fixed plate and admits of its
free passage.
In my hereinbeforementioned Patent No 75: 1884: the internal case F is only
partly taken up by the outlet and inlet channels leaving the larger part of the
interior of the case as a waste space in my present Invention I utilise this waste
space by forming it into an air vessel into which the outlet channel is carried in
such a manner as to direct the water or fluid leaving the annular water space A¹
into the said air vessel the outlet channel is provided with a valve to prevent the
return of the water or fluid the exit or discharge pipe by which the water or fluid
is conducted from the apparatus is carried into the air vessel in such a manner as
to admit of the fluid being expelled or forced through it by the action of the air
under compression in the air vessel.
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When the machine or apparatus is required for transmitting power water or
other fluid under pressure is preferably admitted into and through the outlet
passage or channel and directed by the switch or diverting door in such a manner
as to admit of the pressure acting on the fixed or radiating plates in the annular
water space and so cause the rotary case to revolve and in its course to discharge
the exhausting fluid or water out through the inlet channels.

page_text: WILLIAM HENRY THOMPSON Engineer of Fir Villa Morley Road Lewisham in
the County of Kent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :—
The said Invention has for its object improvements in the Patent No 75. bearing
date January 1st 1884 and granted to me in the year 1884 by means of which the
apparatus is rendered more effective and useful in its operation by causing the
water or other fluid to take up the desired velocity with greater rapidity and by
arranging an air vessel in the interior of the apparatus into which the water is
switched or diverted direct from the annular water space the air contained in the
air vessel acting as a cushion receiving or absorbing the force of the water or Huid
directed into it and again expelling the said water or fluid through the outlet pipes
with a force according to the amount of compression it has received from the
water in velocity. The usefulness of the apparatus is extended by its combination
and arrangment admitting of its being used as a motor.
The reference letters quoted in the following description refer to parts of
apparatus described in my Specification No 75: 1884.
In carrying my invention into practice I form or attach an eccentric on the
internal case F. which eccentric is arranged around the centre and on the side of
the said case F. and is fitted with an eccentric band or strap and two rods each of
which connect the eccentric with lever or crank on a shaft working in a recess or
chamber in the periphery of the annular water space A¹ and carrying a radiating
plate extending across the said water space which plate is connected to the shaft
by a suitable webb or rods in such a manner as to have a radial movement from
the oscilating motion imparted to the said shaft by its connection with the
eccentric which is stationery and the eccentric strap is carried around it by the
rotary case A. to which it is attached by its connection with the radiating plates
in the annular water space A¹ the eccentric is so set as to cause each of the
radiating plates at every revolution of the rotary case aforesaid to move or radiate
into the annular water space and during a part of such revolution to urge the
water forward and cause or assist it to take up the motion or speed of the rotary
rase or annular water space and then to radiate or recede into the herein-before-
mentioned recess or chamber in the periphery of the annular water space so as to
leave the water way open and clear the switch or diverting door H. the eccentric
rods are placed on the opposite sides of the circle of the eccentric strap leading to
the radiating plates which are on opposite sides of the aforesaid annular water
space and so operating that while one plate is receeding clear of the water way the
other is moving or radiating into it arranged in this manner they better balance

page_text: the apparatus when found desirable any number (more or less) of radiating plates
may be arranged at suitable distances around the annular water space aforesaid
and connected to and worked by the same eccentric strap.
For some purposes I bolt the tail peice I. to the internal case F. so that it retains
the switch or diverting door open and fixed in that position for any desired period
and when desirable instead of using a radiating or movable plate in the water way
of the annular water space I employ a plate fixed in and across the water way for
urging the water to take up the velocity of the rotary case aforesaid and avoid the
said fixed plate coming in contact with the switch or diverting door by working
the said switch with an automatic motion in such a manner that the door closes on
the approach of the fixed plate and admits of its free passage. In my herein-
before-mentioned Patent No 75: 1884: the internal case F. is only partly taken up
by the inlet and outlet channels leaving the greater part of the interior of the case
as a waste space in my present Invention I utilise this waste space by forming it
into an airvessel into which the outlet channel is carried in such a manner as to
direct the water or fluid leaving the annular water space A¹ into the said air-
vessel the outlet channel is fitted with a valve to prevent the return of the water
the exit or discharge pipe by which the water or fluid is conducted from the
apparatus is carried into the said airvessel in such a manner as to admit of the
water or fluid being expelled or forced through it by the action of the air onder
compression in the air vessel.
When the machine or apparatus is required for transmitting power water or
fluid under pressure is preferably admitted into and through the discharge pipe or
outlet passages and directed into the annular water space by the switch or diverting
door in such a manner as to admit of the pressure acting on the fixed or radiating
plates and so cause the rotary case to revolve and in its course discharge the
exhausting fluid or water out through the inlet channel.
DESCRIPTION OF THE ACCOMPANING DRAWINGS.
Fiqure 1. is a longitudinal section Fiqure 2. is transverse section Figure 3. is a
plan shown partly in section.
The eccentric strap K. is mounted on the eccentric J. and connected to each of
the radiating plates B. by means of the rods L. and the radiating plate shafts and
cranks M. which form such a connection with the rotary case A. as to cause the
eccentric strap K. to move or revolve with it and be carried around the eccentric J.
so that the rotation of the case A. operates the plates B. in such a manner that they
radiate into the annular water space A¹ and urge or impel forward the water
therein contained and then recede into the recess in the periphery of the annular
water space (as shown) so as to clear or avoid contact with the diverting door or
Bwitch H. by which the water is diverted from the annular water space A¹ through
the outlet channel F. and valve G into the air vessel E. from which it is ejected
and forced out through the exit or discharge pipe by the pressure of the air under
compression in the airvessel.
The shaft I. may be operated as described in my aforesaid Specification No 75:
1884.
P is the driving pulley.
When the apparatus is required for transmitting motive power from a head of
water or other fluid under pressure such water or fluid is admitted through the
pipe D. and the valve G. is removed so as to admit of the fluid flowing freely
through the passage F. from which it is directed by the switch H. into the annular
water space so as to act upon the plates B. and force the rotary case A round in a
direction opposite or contrary to that shown by the arrows in Fig. 2. making its
exit through the pipe C. so that for this purpose the action of the apparatus
is reversed by the fluid flowing in an opposite direction to that indicated by the
arrows in Fiqures 1. 2. and 3.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
Firstly The arrangment of moveable or radiating plates acting in conjunction
with the diverting door or switch and arranged in the annular water space
substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompaning Drawings.
Secondly I claim the arrangment of an airvessel or chamber acting in the
interior of and combined with the apparatus in the manner and for the purposes
hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Lastly I claim the improved general arrangment and combination of Machinery
or Apparatus (or any mere modification of the same) for raising and forcing water
and other liquids or fluids and the employment of such Machinery and Apparatus
for transmitting motive power in the manner herein before described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings.