IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MOTIVE POWER AND IN APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Temple at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 27th January 1881.
GEORGE TEMPLE, of Rotherham, in the County of York.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MOTIVE POWER AND IN APPARATUS
CONNECTED THEREWITH."
This Invention relates to improved means and apparatus for generating motive
power and to apparatus or appliances connected therewith, the combined use of the
power generator and motor (or apparatus for giving off the power) as hereinafter
described, being the essential features of the said Invention.
When the power employed for driving the motor is steam, the generator will be
a steam boiler with furnace and flues with water feed valve, float, index, lever and
balance weight, for showing the height of the water in the boiler, safety valve, and
stean stop valve, the said feed valve, float and index, safety valve and stop valve,
being in combination or being separate and of ordinary design and construction; a
steam pipe attached to the stop valve conveys the steam from the stop valve to the
motor. The boiler will be fitted with a self acting damper, consisting of a metal
cylinder on a hollow frame with a disc of india-rubber (or its equivalent), the steam
being admitted into the cylinder from the boiler by a pipe, or otherwise, the pressure
of the water, steam, or steam and water (etcetera) acting on the india-rubber disc,
forcing it upwards; on the top of the india-rubber disc is a metal plate carrying
a pin which acts on a lever of the third order pivotted to a bracket on the
cylinder; to the first lever is connected a link or rod attached to the end of a
lever of the first order pivotted to the hollow frame under the cylinder; this lever
(under the cylinder) is connected to a rod which actuates a lever of the first order
over the cylinder, this lever being connected to an equilibrium (or other shaped)
damper valve in the flue of the boiler, so that when the pressure of 'steam (etcetera)
in the boiler is excessive, the india-rubber disc is forced up and the damper is
closed, and when the said pressure is lowered the damper valve is opened.
If found advisable in practice a perforated plate (or plates) will be placed in the
boiler above the motor so as to prevent the churning of the water.
The motor is a rotatory disc engine, consisting, firstly, of a shaft which is hollow,
to form a steam passage to convey the steam from the steam pipe to the disc, the
said hollow shaft (or hollow end of the shaft) carrying at one end the disc, and at
the other end an ordinary strap pulley or an ordinary coupling; secondly, of a

page_text: casing in which the shaft rotates, the said casing being connected to the boiler or
steam generator and provided with glands, bushes, and packing of ordinary
construction in which the shaft rotates, and which prevents the escape of the steam
from between the shaft and the casing, the hollow shaft is perforated radially to
admit the steam from the casing and steam pipe, and is fitted with a perforated
bush or ring to ensure a continuous opening between the steam pipe and hollow
shaft so that the disc can be fed regularly with steam when the engine is at
work; thirdly, of a disc perforated from the circumference to the hollow axis in
such a manner as to get the maximum effect from the issuing therefrom of the
steam, the disc is secured to or forms part of the hollow shaft above described,
and is placed within the boiler or steam generator below the level of the surface
of the water therein.
As a modification the disc shaft will be made so as to admit the steam through
the outer end instead of through an opening in the side, as in the improvements
above described..
In carrying into practical use my Invention as above described, steam is
generated in the boiler which is conveyed to the casing of the disc engine, thence
through the hollow shaft to the disc, and issues through the holes in the circum-
ferential face thereof, the steam striking the water tangentially or otherwise, and
causing the disc shaft and strap pulley or coupling to rotate.
As a further modification the disc can have vanes or arms revolving in a case
inside the boiler, either above or below the water line, the steam being admitted
into the case acts on the arms and rotates them, and is discharged into the boiler
through a valve or valves so arranged as to prevent the entry of the water or steam
to the inside of the said casing through the said discharge valves.
As a further modification, the disc firstly described can be placed in a box filled,"
or partly filled, with water, where it will be acted upon and rotated by steam,
as it would be if placed in the steam generator itself, the exhaust or discharged
steam being returned to the boiler or otherwise as found convenient; and in
like manner the disc, secondly described, may be placed in a box or vessel away
from the steam generator. Although steam is especially mentioned as being the
power employed, my improved apparatus is applicable to be used with any other
clastic fluid which will act and drive the motor as will steam.