IMPROVEMENTS IN PUMPS OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING WATER AND SAND, MUD, OR OTHER DISINTEGRATED SUBSTANCES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents,
66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PUMPS OR APPARATUS FOR
RAISING WATER AND SAND, MUD, OR OTHER DISINTEGRATED SUBSTANCES."-
A communication from abroad by Barton Howard Jenks, of Phila-
delphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, United States of America.
Sealed the 12th July 1870, and dated the 28th March 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 28th March 1870.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery
5 Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PUMPS OR APPARATUS

page_text: FOR RAISING WATER AND SAND, MUD, OR OTHER DISINTEGRATED SUBSTANCES," to
be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the employment within a tube of suitable
diameter and length of a number of stationary feathered retaining wheels
alternating with rotary elevating wheels of corresponding form, but
having their blades arranged at reverse angles to the stationary wheels.
The rotary wheels are secured to a central shaft, which turns in bearings
and is provided at one end with a pulley to receive a band, whereby
rotary motion is imparted to the shaft. By means of this apparatus
water, mud, sand, and other fluids or disintegrated substances can be
raised or pumped to any desired height by a constant application of
power to the ascending column. The apparatus is applicable to dredging
mud, sand, or any semi-fluid matters.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Edward Newton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 22nd September 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, GG, Chancery Lane, in tho
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the
thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Edward Newton, Her special
licence that I; the said William Edward Newton, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Edward Newton,
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 PUMPS OB APPARATUS FOR RAISING WATER AND SAND, MUD,
OR OTHER DISINTEGRATED SUBSTANCE," being a communication to me from
abroad by Barton Howard Jenks, of Philadelphia, in the State of Penn-

page_text: disc are for the entrance of liquids into the pump tube, and tho
chamber e and pipe at the other end are for the exit of the same.
The manner of putting together the several parts constituting this
pump is as follows:-A wheel c is first slipped on the shaft d, and is
securely fastened to it; then a short tubular section is adjusted around
such wheel; a short tubular section 6 with a wheel c¹ secured to it is
next slipped on the shaft; then follows another one of the rotary
wheels c, and so on. The rotary and stationary wheels are thus brought
together on the shaft d so as to alternate with each other until the
required number are obtained, when the whole are enclosed within the
pump tube a, as shewn in Fig. 1 of the Drawings.
The operation of the pump is as follows:-The pump is placed either
vertically or at an angle into the material to be pumped; or, if circum-
stances require it, the pump may be operated in a horizontal position.
Power is applied to cause the shaft d to revolve. A cord, belt, or any of
the ordinary methods of revolving a shaft may be employed for this
purpose. This shaft is revolved in a direction indicated by the angle of
the propeller blades, which forces the liquid in a direction longitudinally
with the tube and the curve of revolution. All the force moving in
the curve of revolution is thrown violently against the wings of the
stationary wheel (which causes the material to glance off and move in
a line parallel with the tube), when the blades of the succeeding
revolving wheel catch the liquid or material and move it in the same
manner upon the next adjacent stationary wheel, and so on alternately
until the column of water or other matter is lifted to the desired height.
It will be observed that this constant lifting at every part of the column
controls the material as if it was a rope of sand, and will lift water,
mud, and sand to any desired height without reference to or aid from
atmospheric pressure. The pump can be used with advantage for
dredging or other purposes. The inlet and outlet apertures of the pump
tube can be modified without any alteration in the result, and the outer
tube a can be dispensed with by providing flanges on the short tubular
sections, and bolting these sections together in the same manner as in
uniting ordinary flanced nines

page_text: Patent as aforesaid, the pumping apparatus herein set forth, consisting
of alternate stationary and revolving wheels arranged in a tube and
provided with blades or wings which are feathered at reverse angles, as
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Newton, have here-
unto set my hand and scal, the Twenty-second day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.