NEW INVENTED PUMP
Year: 1807

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS COME, I, JOHN NORTON,
of Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane, in the City of London, Mathematical Instru-
ment Maker, do send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Thirteenth day of July,
in the forty-seventh year of His reign, did give and grant unto me, the
said John Norton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His special
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John Norton,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, 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, my "NEW INVENTED
PUMP;" in which Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the
said John Norton, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had)
may more fully an at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said.
John Norton, do hereby declare that my said improved pump is described in
manner following, that is to say:
It is constructed so that it shall produce a continued or uninterrupted
stream, and this I accomplish by placing-the-piston or plunger worked in a
new and peculiar manner in the working barrel (if the same be fixed hori-
zontally) between four appertures; two of which furnish the water or other
liquid from the sucking barrel into the working barrel, and the other two
convey the same away into the delivering pipe. The peculiarity of the
working of this piston is to make it raise the water or other liquid alternately
through each of the apertures connected with the suction pipe, and to force it
alternately through each of the apertures-connected with the delivery pipe,
whence it issues in a continued or uninterrupted stream. If the working
barrel is placed vertically, two apertures will only be necessary, as may be seen
in Fig. 4, which represents a pump constructed in this manner.
Fig. 1 is a section of the pump with the working barrel placed horizontally,
having the four apertures above mentioned, in which the necessary valves are
inserted. Fig. 2 exhibits a section of the piston detached from the barrel.
Fig. 8, the crank, by which is worked backwards and forwards in the barrel.
In the centre of the working barrel, Fig. 1; is represented a pivot hole for the
end of the crank to work in at the-back of the cylinder. The piston is intro-
duced into. the working barrel at one end, and the crank is afterwards
introduced through a holo in the front or middle of the cylinder, made large
enough-for-that-purpose, which is then covered: over with a plate screwed
thereon, having a hole just sufficient to permit the crank to work through it..
The space between the bars connecting the ends of the piston together should
be wide enough to permit the play of the crank.. a, a, in Fig. 1, shew the
plates that are screwed on to the ends of the working barrel., 6 is the
receiving or suction pipe, and c is the delivering pipe. d, Fig. 2, is the joint
piece that screws on to the end of the piston at e.. f. f, are two of the bar's
connecting the ends of the piston. 9 is the clams encircling the part of the
crank, Fig. 3, marked with the same letter, and it should be observed that
the clams ought to be fastened with screws secured by a steady pin passing
through them, so that the clams shall not become loose in working. And note,
the connecting rod may be made to work by a ball and socket as a universal
joint instead of the method shewn in the Drawing, care being taken to secure
it from getting loose from the clams by a pin being passed through the ball
and cup.
Fig. 4 exhibits my improved pump, with the working barrel placed ver.

page_text: tically, and having only two apertures. a, the receiving or suction pipe. b, the
delivering pipe. c, the working barrel. d, d, the two apertures in the
working barrel. e, e, e, e, the necessary clacks or valves.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth
day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seven.