Improved Apparatus for Utilizing Wind Pressure for the Raising of Water and other Work.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 27th July, 1889-Accepted, 5th Oct., 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Utilizing Wind Pressure for the Raising of
Water and other Work.
I CHARLES SLAGG of 27 Hereford Road Leominster in the county of Hereford
Civil Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
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This invention relates to the combination of a wind engine with a water engine for
the purpose of raising water to high ground by the force of the wind.
Inasmuch as it is desirable to raise water to the tops of hills and other high ground,
and inasmuch as wind prevails in those situations and it is desirable to employ its
force to raise water thereto and to other places, and to drive machinery at the place
from which the water is to be raised.
My invention combines a wind engine situated on high ground with a water engine
situated on low ground.
The means whereby the object of my invention is to be attained are as follows:-
that is to say a wind engine situated on the high ground to be supplied with water is
to be combined with a turbine or other water motor or engine (herein called the water
engine) situated at the place from which the water is to be raised, the combination
being effected by a tube or pipe or iron or other material laid under the surface of the
ground between them.
To the wind engine 1 attach a ram pump or other construction with all necessary
air vessels and appliances for giving pressure to water in the said tube or pipe (herein-
after called the descending pipe).
To the water engine I attach a ram pump or other construction with all necessary
air vessels and appliances for raising water through a second tube or pipe (hereinafter
called the ascending pipe) to the high ground on which the wind engine is situated;
and I also attach to the water engine such gearing as may be suitable for driving
machinery to be used for other useful purposes when more power is exerted by the
wind engine than is required to raise water to the high ground on which the wind
engine is situated.
A portion of the water raised through the ascending pipe is to be diverted into the
descending pipe and therein put under pressure by the power of the wind engine, the
other portion of the water raised remaining for use on the high ground.
The form of wind engine which I prefer has an annular sail, but I adopt any wind
engine with appliances suitable for the work to be done by the wind engine as herein
described; and, likewise, the form of water motor or engine which I prefer is a
turbine, but I adopt any water motor or engine suitable for the work to be done by
the water engine as herein described, but so that in every case any such water
motor or engine shall be driven by the power transmitted to it from a wind engine
through a tube or pipe full of water, substantially as herein described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
The combination of a wind engine situated on high ground with a water engine
situated at the place from which water is to be raised, such combination being
effected by means of a pipe extending between them and conveying water under

page_text: pressure put upon it by the wind engine, together with a second pipe through
which water is to be raised by the water engine to the high ground on which
the wind engine is situated, substantially as herein described.
Data 5th day of July 1889
CHARLES SLAGG.