CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY APPLICABLE TO THE RAISING OF WATER FOR PROPELLING BOATS, CARRIAGES, AND OTHER MACHINERY
Year: 1838

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HUGHES REES, of Penymacs, near Llanelly, in the County of Carmarthen,
Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster the Twenty-seventh day of September, in the second year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said.
John Hughes Rees, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said John Hughes Rees, my exors, adññiors, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said John Hughes Rees, my exors, adñiors,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and'
at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
APPLICABLE TO THE RAISING OF WATER FOR PROPELLING BOATS, CARRIAGES, AND
OTHER MACHINERY," being partly of my own invention, and partly communi-
cated to me by a certain foreigner residing abroad; in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said John Hughes Rees, shall cause
a particular description of the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same;
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1. B is a transverse bar three feet in length, with a rack nine inches
deep. C is a pinion two inches and a half from axis to pitch line of cogs.
D is a handle or lever thirty-six inches long. A is the standard, five feet six
inches or six feet long, ten or twelve inches wide, by three or four inches deep.
E is a weight to assist in the up stroke. P, P, are two pumps, (one man will
work two of four inches diameter, twenty feet lift,) or one of six inches diameter
at the same depth. Q is a bonnet upon the top of the suction pipe, to admit of
its being cleared by a rod if choked.
1.
.
Figure 2. B is the transverse bar; the rack is a complète circle, so that in
case the
cogs break or wear on one side the other may be turned for use. Cis
a round pinion of five inches diameter. D is a double lever for two men, six
feet long. P, P, are pumps, six inches in diameter. R, R, are pipes fixed just
under the lower valve of the pumps P, P, for the back water (caused by the
descent of the piston) to rise through; they have a slide, as shewn; these.
pipes R, R, are not essential. C, C, is a pinion of ten inches diameter, hung
in another hole, to be used in case a longer stroke is required; à man can
make a stroke of twelve inches.
Figure 3. B is the transverse bar. G, G, are upright racks, with curved
ends to meet the transverse bar, with teeth ten or twelve. R, R, are friction
rollers two or three inches diameter.
Figure 4. G is a connecting rod affixed to the bars B and H; the lever bar
H is so curved as to admit of this rod being fixed at either of the holes, to
increase the stroke. D, D, is a double lever, with a cross handle for two, four,
or eight men.
Figure 5 is a back view of Figure 1. T' is a small hole to oil the spindle of
pinion. S, S, are sockets for one or two levers to be fixed in.
Figure 6. 6 is a weight to be put on the end of the transverse bar B, when
necessary to balance the weight of water on the other side.
Figures 7 and 8 show other arrangements, with chains in lieu of cogs,
for communicating motion to pumps.
Figure 9 shews the mode of working by the feet. C is the pinion, placed
inside the rack, taking less space.

page_text: Figure 10 shews the rack, &c. placed horizontally, with long lever, and two
men on opposite sides as rowing.
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Figure 11, for giving a rotary motion, shews that when the pinion quits the
teeth of the upper rack it catches in those of the lower one. The fly wheel is
affixed to the spindle of the pinion, and can turn either way.
Figure 12 shews the transverse bar and the long arm united in one piece.
a is. the eccentric wheel, which acts laterally upon a strap with a band attached
to the lower arm.
.
Figure 13 is a side view of the fly wheel, to the spindle of which is fixed an
eccentric wheel a of the diameter required. An iron band goes from the con-
necting rod round this wheel a (to prevent the jar). Brass is let into the
circumference of the eccentric wheel to lessen the friction.
...
Fuller description of Figures 7 and 11.-In Figure 7 chains are substituted
for cogs. T is the transverse bar, three feet long. x, x, are arms united with
it, nine inches long, with holes to receive the rod at the end of the chains.
The rod has a worm at the end to admit of the chains being tightened with a
nut. A is a wheel of five inches diameter, with a double groove in the circum-
ference to receive the chains and allow them to work clear of each other. This
wheel is set below the lower end of the arms, so that when it works the chains
may have an equal strain. The spindle is fixed in the wheel, and the lever
acts upon the reverse end of it. Figure 11 has a pinion with teeth round a
part of the circumference only, set between two circular racks; the teeth are
so arranged that when they quit the teeth of the upper rack they catch in those
of the lower one. A fly wheel is fixed on the spindle of the pinion.
The objects of this Invention, as applied to pumps, are to obtain a more per-
pendicular stroke with the piston rod than is effected with the common lever
or brake (thereby saving friction and loss of stroke), and to exert the necessary
power in a smaller compass than usual. It is recommended that the transverse
bar or arm to which the piston rod is fixed be not less than eighteen inches
long from its axis. But the other parts may be made of any proportions to
suit the stroke required and weight to be raised. The racks may be made of
cast or wrought iron (case-hardened, as being more durable,) or of brass or
other fitting metal. The standard may be of wood or iron); if in a vessel
the "mast" may answer the purpose.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Hughes Rees, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of March, One thousand eight
hundred and thirty-nine.
J. H. REES. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of March, in
the year of our Lord 1839, the aforesaid John Hughes Rees came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
year
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of March, in
the of our Lord 1839, the aforesaid John Hughes Rees came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.