CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF WORKING PUMPS AND VALVES, AND WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO FIRE ENGINES AND OTHER SIMILAR APPARATUS
Year: 1839

page_text: FAULKNER'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOT
FAULKNER, of Cheadle, in the County of Chester, Calico Printer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her présent most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Eleventh day of April, in the second year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Lot Faulkner, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said Lot Faulkner, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and
such others as I, the said Lot Faulkner, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no other, from time to time and
at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England and Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MODE OF WORKING PUMPS AND VALVES, AND WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO
APPLICABLE TO FIRE ENGINES AND OTHER SIMILAR APPARATUS;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Lot Faulkner, shall
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be enrolled in Her Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Lot
Faulkner, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention, and the

page_text: manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly ascertained in
and by the Drawings hereto annexed, and the following explanation thereof,
that is to say:-
My Improvements in the Mode of Working Pumps and Valves, and which
Improvements are also applicable to Fire Engines and other similar Apparatus,
consist, firstly, in the peculiar application and arrangement of certain segments
of leather to pump buckets, valves, plungers, or pistons, in order to constitute
a perfectly tight, elastic, and durable packing; and, secondly, in the applica-
tion of such or similar pump buckets, valves, plungers, or pistons, to a certain
arrangement and construction of apparatus in order to employ the same as a
fire-extinguishing engine, ship's pump, garden engine, or any other similar
apparatus wherein such pump buckets, valves, plungers, or pistons, may be
used with advantage. But in order that these improvements may be more
particularly explained, I have attached to these presents a Sheet of Drawings
representing various views of the same, and also their application to the

page_text: to the pump barrel; and i, i, the discharge pipe to the running hose or branch
end; and I would here remark, that in the application of these improvements to
the pumping of acids or other corrosive liquids or waters, I employ alternato
segments of brass and leather in the composition of the packing rings or segments.
c and d, and also substitute a lining of thin brass, divided into four parts,
instead of the leather tube e, e.
Having now fully described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be understood that
I claim as my Invention (and which is secured to me by virtue of the above
recited Letters Patent), the peculiar construction and arrangement of the
pump bucket, valve, plunger or piston, in working pumps and valves, and also
its application and use in the manner and for the purposes represented in the
accompanying Drawings, and herein particularly set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Lot Faulkener, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and thirty-nine.