IMPROVEMENTS IN PUMPS, PUMP GEAR, AND PUMP BUCKETS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William George Henry Taunton, of Liverpool, in
the County of Lancaster, Civil Engineer and Patent Windlass Purchase
Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PUMPS, PUMP GEAR,
AND PUMP BUCKETS."
Sealed the 28th August 1855, and dated the 2nd March 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William George Henry
Taunton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 2nd March 1855.
I, WILLIAM GEORGE HENRY TAUNTON, of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Civil Engineer and Patent Windlass Purchase Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PUMPS,
PUMP GEAR, AND PUMP BUCKETS," to be as follows:-
These improvements consist, firstly, in the constructing of pumps, by
enlarging the diameter at the low end of the chamber similar to a ball, between
the chamber and the suction pipe, in order to apply a valve to the low end of
the ball, which is suspended by means of a staple attached to an inward collar
of the low end of the chamber, so that any substance of the diameter of the
suction pipe may pass without impediment.
Secondly, as regards pump gear; these improvements consist in rising the
spear perpendicularly, so as not to cause friction or injury to the chamber,
which I effect by means of a lever fixed on a standard attached on the pump
head. The end of said lever resembles an oval circle, the centre of which

page_text: corresponds with the centre of the pump. A forked spear embraces the oval
circle of the lever, having two rollers moving on pins, one on the top and the
other below the inner circumference of the circle, which, when an up and down
motion is given to the said lever, lifts the spear perpendicularly.
Thirdly, as regards pump buckets; the improvements consist in constructing
buckets for pumps having a valve moving on socket on the staple of the bucket
where the spear is attached in such a manner that when the valve opens it
allows any substance to pass without. impediment; and as regards buckets
made of wood, the improvement consists in making them with metal-valves,
by attaching the plate valve to the wooden bucket by means of the staple.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William George Henry Taunton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 1st September 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
GEORGE HENRY TAUNTON, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Civil
Engineer and Patent Windlass Purchase Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William George Henry Taunton, Her special license that I, the said
William George Henry Taunton, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said William George Henry Taunton,. my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times hereafter during the term therein ex-
pressed, 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 Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PUMPS, PUMP GEAR, AND PUMP
BUCKETS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William
George Henry Taunton, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said In-
vention, 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 William George Henry Taunton, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the

page_text: same is to be performer, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement (that is to say):-
My Invention consists in enlarging the barril of the pump above the lower
valve, so as to form a spherical, egg-shaped, or other conveniently formed
chamber between the lower valve and the lowest point at which the spear
valve arrives in its downward stroke. Over the suction pipe at the bottom
of the chamber I fit a circular valve seat, which I cover by a circular plate of
metal, to which is attached on the upper side an upright shank or rod, which
works vertically through a guide eye, which is suspended within the chamber by
two rods, which extend downwards into the chamber from a ring to which they
are attached, which rests upon a flange formed in the barril of the pump
immediately above the chamber. On top of the guide rod of the valve an eye
is formed, so that it can be drawn out along with the guide frame when
required. If preferred, lignum vitae can be used in place of metal in forming
the valves for my improved pump buckets. The spear valve I form by taking
a hollow cylindrical piece of wood of the same diameter as the bore of the
pump barril; on the upper edge thereof I lay a ring of metal to form the
valve seat. The valve consists of a circular piece of metal, having a short
vertical guide rod fixed to the centre of the upper side; two holes are then
bored through the metal valve bed, and the wooden cylinder, through which
the lower ends of the forked staple of the spear is driven, and is then secured
on the lower side of the bucket by two small nuts screwed on to the ends of
the fork. At the junction of the fork a hole is formed, extending a short
distance upward into the centre of the spear rod, in which the guide of the
valve works.
The upper end of the spear is split or forked, so as to allow the short end of
the working lever which supported upon a standard to work between them.
The short end of the working lever or "weegee" immediately over the pump is
formed with a large ovol-shaped opening through it, having two small anti-
friction rollers working against its inner side, one at the top and the other
against the lower edge. These anti-friction rollers are mounted upon axels
extending through the opening from one side of the fork to the other. The
object of this arrangement is, that during every part of the action of the
working lever, the spear rises and falls in a perfectly perpalell line with the bore
of the pump.
That my Invention may
be more readily seen and understood, I have here-
unto annexed Drawing in illustration of my said improvements. Like letters
marked on the Drawings refer to similar parts.
Figure 1 is a side elevation (partially in section) of a pump constructed

page_text: according to my Invention, and fitted with my improved bucket and gear;
Figure 2, a side elevation of my improved gear as applied to a double pump,
showing the application of four working levers; Figure 3 is a perspective
view of one of the improved valves, having a wooden bucket and metal valve
seat, valve shewn open; Figure 4 is a view of the staple or fork of the spear
rod and the metallic valve seat; Figure 5, the wooden bucket detached;
Figure 6, view of the lower valve and guide frame detached; Figure 7, front
view of the forked spear rod, showing the anti-friction rollers.
A, pump barril, partially shewn in section; B, portion of the pump barril
enlarged, so as to form an oval-shaped chamber; C, suction pipe; D, metal
valve seat, fitted upon the top of the suction pipe; E, flat circular valve, to
the centre of which is attached F, the guide rod, which works through a guide
eye in the bottom of G, the guide frame; H, the wooden bucket of spear valve;
I, metallic valve seat, mounted on the upper edge of the wooden bucket;
K, valve for spear bucket; L, fork or staple of the spear rod; M, spear rod;
N, the "weegec" or head of the working lever; O, standard for the fulcrum
of working lever; P, loose bar, which slips into a socket in the "weegee," and
forms the long end of the working lever, and assist to support the oval-shaped
head of the lever, by being passed longitudinally across the oval opening, and
between the upper fork of the spear rod into a socket formed in the front inner
edge of the oval opening. Q, two anti-friction rollers, mounted in the fork of
the spear head, and which work against the inner surface of the oval opening
on the end of the working lever.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner the same is or may be performed, what I claim is,-
First, the general arrangement and construction of pumps and pump gear,
as herein-before described.
Second, the use of wooden pump buckets in combination with metallic
valve seats.
In witness whereof, I, the said William George Henry Taunton, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
WILLIAM GEORGE HENRY (L.S.) TAUNTON.
Witness,
W. WALKER.