IMPROVEMENTS IN A
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Eugene Rimmel, of No. 96, Strand, in the City of
Westminster, Perfumer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPA-
Sealed the 22nd February 1867, and dated the 23rd August 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Eugene Rimmel at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd August 1866.
I, EUGENE RIMMEL, of No. 96, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Per-
fumer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING LIQUIDS, PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE TO FOUNTAINS," to
be as follows:-
My Invention mainly consists in the employment of an elastic tube placed
horizontally, or nearly so, round the inside or outside of a circular chamber or
round the outside of a circular block; one end of this tube is carried up to or
through an upper chamber or basin, and terminates in a jet provided with a
cock; the other end of the tube, in the case of fountains, is also carried
to the upper chamber, and forms a return passage for the liquid to the
horizontal portion of the tube. In combination with this tube I employ three
rollers or blocks driven by clockwork or otherwise round the horizontal
portion of the tube, so as to press against it and force the water out of it up
the vertical portion to the jet. The rollers or blocks are placed at such
distances apart as to produce a continuous flow of liquid up the vertical

page_text: portion to the jet, and the liquid issuing from the jet falls into the upper
chamber or basin and returns through the other vertical or return portion to
the horizontal portion of the tube, from which it is again forced out by the
rollers or blocks to the jet, and so on continuously. The number of rollers
or blocks and tubes may be varied, but I prefer the number stated. The parts
of the apparatus may be made of any suitable materials and enclosed or fitted
in or upon an ornamental frame or support.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Eugene Rimmel in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
23rd February 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EUGENE
RIMMEL, of No. 96, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Perfumer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Eugene Rimmel, Her special licence that I, the said Eugene
Rimmel, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Eugene Rimmel, 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,
usc, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING LIQUIDS, PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE TO FOUNTAINS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Eugene Rimmel, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, 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 Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Eugene Rimmel, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, that
is to say:

page_text: My Invention mainly consists in the employment of an elastic tube placed
round the inside or outside of a curved or circular chamber or round the
outside of a curved or circular block; one end of this tube is carried up to or
through an upper chamber or basin, and terminates in a jet provided with a
cock; the other end of the tube, in the case of fountains, is also carried up to
the upper chamber, and forms a return passage for the liquid to the portion of
the tube round the chamber or block. In combination with this tube I
employ three rollers or blocks driven by clock work or otherwise round the
portion of the tube in the chamber or on the block, so as to press against it
and force the water out of it up the vertical portion to the jet. The rollers
or blocks are placed at such distances apart as to produce a continuous flow
of liquid up the vertical portion to the jet, and the liquid issuing from the jet
falls into the upper chamber or basin and returns through the other vertical
or return portion to the bottom of the tube, from which it is again forced out
by the rollers or blocks to the jet, and so on continuously. The number of
rollers or blocks and tubes may be varied, but I prefer the number stated.
The parts of the apparatus may be made of any suitable materials and
enclosed or fitted in or upon an ornamental frame or support.
The accompanying Drawing represents a portable fountain constructed
according to my Invention; the frame or casing A being in section; B is the
basin; C, C, are two side frames carrying clockwork. D; the upper part of
the frame C is shewn removed, so as to expose the rollers and other parts
hereafter referred to; E is an elastic tube placed round the inside of a curved
chamber F; one end of this tube is carried up and connected to a tube G
which passes through the basin B and terminates in a jet H provided with a
cock I. The other end of the tube E is also carried up and connected to a
tube J leading to the basin B and forming a return passage for the liquid.
Instead of the parts G and J being separate tubes they may be of elastic
material in a piece with the portion E. K, K, K, are three rollers held in a
frame L driven by the clockwork D round the spindle M, so that the rollers
are driven round the tube E, and in turn press it between themselves and the
chamber F, whereby the liquid in the tube is forced up through the tube G and
out at the jet H. The liquid falls from the jet into the basin B and returns
through the tube J to the bottom of the tube E, to be again forced out by
the rollers, and so on continuously, as before explained.
The arrangement of the rollers K and elastic tube E may be varied so
long as the rollers in succession are made to compress the elastic tube in such
manner as to produce a continuous elevation and flow of liquid, as herein-
before described.

page_text: And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim constructing
apparatus for raising liquids in which three or other suitable number of
rollers or blocks are made to compress an elastic tube, so as to produce a
continuous elevation of the liquid in the tube, substantially as herein-before
described and represented in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Eugene Rimmel, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of February, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven.
EUGENE RIMMEL. (L.s.)