IMPROVED: MA--- CHINERY FOR DRAWING OR EXTRACTING WATER FROM. MINES, WELLS, PITS,: OR OTHER DEEP PLACES BY MEANS OF SUCTION
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Beinhauer, of Deutz, near Cologne, in the
Kingdom of Prussia, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVED: MA---
CHINERY FOR DRAWING OR EXTRACTING WATER FROM. MINES, WELLS, PITS,:
OR OTHER DEEP PLACES BY MEANS OF SUCTION."
Sealed the 30th April 1858, and dated the 5th November 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Beinhauer at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on tlie
5th November 1857.
I, HENRY BEINHAUER, of Deutz, near Cologne, in the Kingdom of Prussia,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED
MACHINERY FOR DRAWING OR EXTRACTING WATER FROM MINES, WELLS, PITS, OR
OTHER DEEP PLACES BY MEANS OF SUCTION," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a novel arrangement of hydraulic apparatus for
raising water by means of suction to great altitudes, as, for example, from the
bottom of mines or pits to the top of the surface of the ground. For this
purpose I employ a series of vessels placed at different levels to receive the
ascending columns of water and transmit them to a higher elevation, and I
am thus enabled to make use of the atmospheric pressure, as is well understood,
to render the sucking action (which would otherwise be powerless at a greater
elevation than 32 feet) efficient for raising the water to any required height.
These vessels, which are made air-tight with atmospheric valves to admit air

page_text: thereto at certain periods of the operation, I prefer to arrange in pairs, and I
fit them each with a vertical pipe about 32 feet long, and which dips nearly to
the bottom of the vessel, and is connected at its upper part by a branch pipe
at a height of 25 feet with a second vessel or. receiver; at a higher level, that
is, at about 32 feet, this pipe is connected by a second branch pipe with a
central or main exhaust pipe, which is in continuous connection with the
exhaust engine. On the other side of this main pipe the same arrangement
of receiving vessels and pipes is provided, the same vessels acting independently
but simultaneously with those on the same level. This system is continued
upwards until the entire height to which the water is intended to be raised is
attained by the hydraulic apparatus. If now, the main air suction pipe
is exhausted, it will by its connection with all the receivers cause a partial
exhaustion therein, water will then flow from the pit into the lowest pair of
vessels until it rises therein high-enough-to lift-the air valves, when air will
enter and fill the upper part of those vessels; the exhaustion still continuing,
the water will now-rise up the vertical pipes in connection with the vessels
until it reaches the first branch pipe, and it will then discharge itself into the
second set of vessels; this branch pipe dips into the second vessel, and its
inner end is closed with a valve opening outwards: The supply and discharge
in the first or lower set of vessels containing the water will rise until it fills
the second set to a level that will lift the air valves of these vessels; the
atmospheric pressure will then again be caused to act on the water, and
enable the exhaust to continue its efficient action on the water, to raise it in
like manner to a third set of vessels,. and so on until it rises to the required
height, the water is then discharged by the impelling action of the motive
power engine or by its own gravity into any suitable channel or receptacle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Beinhauer in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th May 1858:
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I; HENRY
BEINHAUER, of Deutz, near Cologne, in the Kingdom of Prussia, Engineer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her, Letters.
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord:
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,

page_text: the said Henry Beinhauer, Her special license that I, the said Henry Bein-
hauer, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Henry Beinhauer, 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 "IM-
PROVED MACHINERY: FOR DRAWING OR EXTRACTING WATER PROM MINES, WELLS,
PITS, OR OTHER DEEP PLACES BY MEANS OF SUCTION," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Henry Beinhauer; by an instrument in writing. under
my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
3. Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Beinhauer, do hereby declare
the nature of my said. 'Invention, and: in
what h
manner the same is to be
*performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):
This Invention relates to a novel arrangement of hydraulic apparatus for
-raising water in continuous streams from mines and other deep places; by
mieans of suction. For this purpose I employ a series of vessels placed at
different levels, to receive the ascending columns of water and transmit them
to a higher elevation, and I am thus enabled to make use of the atmospheric
pressure, as is well understood, to render the sucking action (which would
otherwise be powerless at a greater elevation than thirty-two feet) efficient for
raising the water to any required height. These vessels, which are made
air-tight and provided with atmospheric valves to admit air thereto at certain
periods of the operation, I prefer to arrange in pairs, and I fit them each with
a vertical pipe, which dips nearly to the bottom of the vessel, and is connected
by a branch pipe at a height of twenty-five feet with a second vessel or
receiver. At its upper extremity this pipe connects by an elbow or second
branch pipe.with a central or main exhaust pipe which is in connection with
the suction pump or exhaust engine. In this manner all the receiving vessels
of the series are brought into connection with the suction pump, the system
being continued upwards until the entire height to which the water is intended
to be raised is attained by the hydraulic apparatus. If, now, the main air
suction pipe is exhausted, it will by its connection with all 'the receivers cause

page_text: _a partial exhaustion therein, and the water being free to enter the lowest pair
of vessels, will rise up gradually through, the whole series to fill the vacuum
produced therein, and ultimately will be discharged above.
In the accompanying Drawings, Fig. 1 represents in side elevation, and
Fig. 2 in sectional elevation, my improved arrangement of hydraulic ma-
chinery. In these Figures four pairs of receiving and transmitting vessels set
at different levels (the upper ones, say, twenty-five feet apart) are 'shewn as
forming the series, but the number will of course vary according to the height
which it is required to lift the water. Fig. 3 is a plan view shewing the
lifting apparatus and exhaust or suction pump connected therewith. Fig. 4.
is a sectional plan of the lifting apparatus taken in the line 1, 2 of Fig. 1;
Fig. 5 is a sectional plan taken in the line 3, 4; and Fig. 6 is a. vertical
section of one of the air-tight receiving vessels drawn on an enlarged scale.
A, A, represent the walls or sides of a mine shaft or well; B, B, represent
a triple suction pump whose cylinders are in connection with a horizontal.
pipe C, by the side of which and parallel therewith is another horizontal. pipe
D. These pipes communicate with each other at their extremities by means
of two pendent bent pipes a, a, in which valves a¹; a', are mounted to prevent
the reflux of water into the pipe D. This pipe D is divided by plates b, b,
into three compartments, the central portion 6', which is not intended to
receive water, being brought into direct communication with the main exhaust
pipe E: The parts, 62, 63, of the pipe D are connected with the middle com-
partiment by branch pipes 63, 63, for the purpose of establishing a connection
between the pump and the exhaust pipe E through the bent pipes a and
horizontal pipe C. This exhaust pipe extends from the top to near. the
bottom of the apparatus, and in connection with it are the pairs of pipes
F, F, F, through which the water receivers G, G1, G2, are respectively
exhausted of air and supplied with water. The lowest pair of vessels G is
fitted with a valve opening inwards, to admit water from the pit or well.
Dipping into these vessels and reaching nearly to their bottoms are the pipes
F, which connect by branches f with the vessels G¹; the inner ends of these
branches are closed by hinged valves. The pipes F connect with the main
exhaust pipe E at f¹, and from the level where their branches of connect with
the vessels G¹ (which is the point of discharge for the ascending water) these
pipes form exhaust tubes. In like manner the pipes F¹ dip into and rise
from the vessels G¹, connect by branches with the vessels G2, and join the
central exhaust pipe at f. From the vessels G² rise the pipes F2, which
connect by branches with the vessels G³, and join the exhaust pipe in the
chamber 61 of the horizontal pipe D. And lastly, from the vessels G³ rise

page_text: the pipes, witen Jom the norizontal pipes in the chambers 10° .re-
spectively.
It may
be here observed that the upper set of pipes must necessarily..be
shorter than is required for the following ones, in order to allow for the space
occupied by the horizontal pipes and check valves in the thirty-two feet
allotted for the rise of the water from the highest pair of vessels to the suction
pumps. The spaces in the pipes F, F, &c., between the points where the
water columns break off and flow into the vessels (as indicated by color in
Fig. 2), and the tops of those pipes by always remaining free from water and
in a direct communication with the general exhausting pipe E, allows of the
latter drawing up through the pipes each successive newly formed water
column from the reception vessel G, until the last formed colunin rising
through the horizontal pipes C and D is discharged through the mouths of the
pump at s.
I will now describe, with reference to Fig. 6, the arrangement of the
receiving vessels G, whereby the physical requisition in relation to the indis-
pensable pressure of the atmosphere is provided. h is a pipe standing up
from the cover of the vessel G, and terminating at its upper end in a cup.
Through this pipe passes a rod, which carries an india-rubber valve i at its
upper end and a float k at its lower end. Supposing now the pump to be set
in motion and the air to be exhausted through the pipe F' from the air-tight
vessel, water will flow into the vessel by the branch pipe f until it has attained
a given level; when this has been attained it will raise the float, and thereby
lift the valve i off its seat. A communication will thus be opened between
the interior of the vessel and the atmosphere, and as the suction of, the pump'
proceeds, the water not being allowed by the pressure of the air upon the
surface thereof to accumulate to a greater extent in the vessel, will rise up
the pipe F and discharge itself into the next vessel of the series, which being
in like manner provided with a self-acting air valve, will ensure the transmission
of the water column to a further stage, and so on until the lift is completed.
The suction and pressure pumps consist of three double-action cylinder
pistons, that at every revolution of the crank axle give six sucking and six
pressing movements. When the pumps are in action the air is exhausted in
all the pipes C, D, E, F, and the series of reception vessels G, G¹, &c., the
water consequently enters the lowest of these vessels, whence it rises in two
columns through the pipes F. These columns following a natural law would
if confined rise to the normal height of thirty-two feet, but finding an escape
through the branch pipes f they here break off and flow into the vessels G',
which become the bases and supports of fresh water columns, successively

page_text: forming and rising until the water reaches the horizontal pipes D and 'C,
whence it is drawn into the pumps and discharged through the mouths of the
pumps at s.
Having; now set forth the nature of my Invention of "Improved Machinery
for Drawing or Extracting. Water from Mines, Wells, Pits, or other Deep
Places by Means of Suction," and having also explained the manner of carrying
the same into effect, I wish it to, be understood that I do not claim as of my In-
vention the employment of vessels set at different stages or levels for receiving
and transmitting upwards ascending volumes of water irrespective of the
construction and arrangement of such vessels; but what I claim, under the
above in part recited Letters Patent is, the arrangement of hydraulic machinery
as herein described, and shewn in the Drawings, whereby, through the agency
of the principle of exhaustion or suction, I am enabled to raise volumes of
water to any required elevation.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Beinhauer, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-third day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Signed, sealed, and delivered in my
presence,
British
Consulate,
Cologne.
G. F. CROSSTHWAITE,
(L.S.) H. BEINHAUER.
H. B. M. Consul;
Cologne, 23rd April 1858.
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