IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY TO BE ACTUATED BY WATER OR AIR
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Frederic Goble, of 15, Fish Street
Hill, in the City of London, Master Mariner, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY TO BE ACTUATED BY WATER OR
AIR."
Sealed the 29th September 1853, and dated the 9th April 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Frederic
Goble at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 9th April 1853.
I, GEORGE FREDERIC GOBLE, of 15, Great Fish Street Hill, in the
City of London, Master Mariner, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY TO BE ACTUATED BY
WATER OR AIR" to be as follows:
My improvements refer, firstly, to a peculiar arrangement of ma-
chinery applicable for raising water; secondly, to a modification of the
same for driving water mills; and, thirdly, to another modification for
working windmills.
The nature of the said Invention is fully described and ascertained
in and by the following description thereof, reference being had to the

page_text: drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon.
Fig. 1, is a diagram in which A, B, C, indicate the situation of large
cylindrical drums or wheels carrying the endless chains or bands
D, E, F, with their buckets, float boards, or sails (as the case may be),
a, b, c; the latter, c, for hydraulic purposes, occupying the base of the
triangular framework supporting A, B, C, when the same can con-
veniently be so constructed.
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In applying this improved machinery for raising water, the endless
chain or band D, E, F,is furnished with any number or size of
buckets, a, b, c; and the buckets at c, are submerged in a stream of
water running in the direction B, to C, indicated by the arrow; each
bucket then rises at C, empties itself at A, and descends on the
side A, b, B, and so on continually, while acted upon by a fall or force
of water of one foot or upwards.
Another application of this machinery is effected by using float
boards only at a, b, c, which construction is favourable to its being
employed similarly to an undershot water wheel, but with greater effect
in shallow streams, which effect is obtained by proportionably.extend-
ing the base or immersed floats c, and by making the drums A, B, C,
of increased width.
For working windmills by means of my Invention, I recommend,
instead of float boards, to have. either canvas stretched on suitable
framework, or a Venetian system of broad strong laths, moveable at
any angle, as used for windmill .sails; and' to place the improved
machinery in such a direction that the wind can only act up or down
the hypothenuse of the angle A, b, B, the other parts being covered
up.
Having thus described the construction and the several applications of
my said Invention, it is evident that it may be very variously modified in
respect to the placement of the framework, the number and size of the
drums, wheels, floats, buckets, and other working parts, which must
necessarily be arranged to suit the various circumstances to which my
several improvements are capable of being applied, particularly in
draining land or mines, elevating water from shallow or deep streams

page_text: for irrigation or for water mills; likewise in using its power direct from
the shaft of one or more of the drums, or the like. I therefore do not
restrict myself to any particular materials, dimensions, or forms of the
several parts, so long as the principle herein described is adhered to;
and I do declare that what I claim as my Invention is, the novel con-
struction and the application of machinery for raising water and other
purposes as described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Frederic Goble, in the Great Seal Patent
Office, on the 7th October 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
GEORGE FREDERIC GOBLE, of 15, Fish Street Hill, in the City of
London, Master Mariner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George Frederic Goble, Her special
licence that I, the said George Frederic Goble, my executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Frederic
Goblé, 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 Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY TO BE ACTUATED BY WATER OR AIR,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Frederic
Goble, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in a t 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 George Frederic Goble, do hereby

page_text: declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement.
.
My improvements refer, firstly, to a peculiar arrangement of ma-
chinery applicable for raising water; secondly, to a modification of the
same, for driving water mills; and, thirdly, to another modification for
working windmills.
For the better understanding of my said Invention I shall now
proceed to give a detailed description thereof, reference being had to
the drawing hereunto annexed, and to the letters marked thereon.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, is a diagram, illustrative of a vertical section of my im-
proved machinery, as applied for raising water. A, B, C, indicate the
situation of three large cylindrical drums or wheels, carrying the endless
chains or bands D, E, F, with their buckets, in this instance, but which,
for other applications, are float boards or sails, as the case may be,
marked a, b, c; the latter, c, when required for hydraulic purposes,
occupy the base of the triangular framework, supporting A, B, C, when
the same can conveniently be so constructed.
In applying my improved machinery for the purpose of raising
water, the endless chain or band D, E, F, is furnished with any re-
quired number or size of buckets a, b, c, and the buckets at c, are
submerged in a stream of water running in the direction B, to C,
indicated by the arrow; each bucket then rises at C, empties itself
at A, and descends on the side A, b, B, and so on continually, while
acted upon by a fall or force of water of one foot or upwards.
Another application of this machinery is effected by using float
boards only, which construction is favourable to its being employed
similarly to an undershot water wheel, but with greater effect in shallow
streams, which effect is obtained by proportionably extending the base
or iminersed floats c, and by making the drums or wheels A, B, C, of
increased width.
For working windmills by means of my said Invention, I recom-
mend, instead of employing float boards, to have either canvas stretched

page_text: on suitable framework, or a Venetian system of broad strong laths,
moveable at any angle, as used for windmill sails, and to place the
improved machinery in such a direction that the wind can only act up
or down the hypothenuse of the angle A, b, B, the other parts being
covered up.
Having thus described the construction and the several applications
of my said Invention, it is evident that it may be variously modified in
respect to the placement of the framework, the number and size of
the drums, wheels, floats, buckets, and other working parts, which must
necessarily be arranged to suit the various circumstances under which
my several improvements are capable of being applied, particularly in
draining land or mines, elevating water from shallow or deep streams,
or for irrigation, water mills, and likewise in using its power direct
from the shaft of one or more of the drums A, B, C, or the like. I
therefore do not restrict myself to any particular materials, dimensions,
angles, or forms of the several parts, so long as the principle herein
described is adhered to. And I do declare that what I claim as my
Invention is, namely, the novel construction and application of ma-
chinery for raising water, and other purposes, as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Frederic Goble, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of October, in
the year of our Lord 1853.
G. F. GOBLE. (L.S.)