IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING WATER, AND IN THE APPLICATION THEREOF TO CERTAIN USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1831

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
FELL, of Fountain Yard, Vauxhall Bridge Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Plumber, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the
Fourth, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Twenty-fourth day of May, in the first year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Fell, His especial licence, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said Richard Fell, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Richard Fell, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING WATER,
AND IN THE APPLICATION THEREOF TO CERTAIN USEFUL PURPOSES;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Richard Fell, shall
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His said 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
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly 'described
Richard Fell, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: nd ascertained by the following description thereof, reference being had to
he Drawing annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon; that
to say:
Fig. 1 represents a cistern fixed at any required height above the con-
lenser, thirty feet being of the power of an atmosphere, with an inch pipe 5
communicating to within two inches of the bottom of the condenser A, and
aving a stopcock to regulate the machine a short distance above the con-
lenser B.
Fig. 2, the condenser (with safety valve on top), of the usual construction
of steam boilers, and of any required shape and size, A representing air in a 1
compressed form, and B water.
Fig. 3, a cylinder or pump, with solid piston A, with a service pipe to convey
the air from the condenser, and marked a, and having its passage through a
throttle valve or a tap, according to circumstances, and marked B, the piston
rod C communicating its power to a crank beneath Y, through stuffing box 1
at the bottom of the cylinder or pump.
Fig. 4, 4, two pumps, each being of double the capacity of Fig. 3 (having
to receive its air thro' the pipes marked b, b, in the ascending and descending
stroke of the piston A), B the piston, having valves to close on the down
stroke, and force the air through the pipes c, c, c, into the condenser, which
pistons communicate with and work the crank Y through the beams G.
Fig. 5, 5, two conical chambers or pumps, each having a cylinder on
either end of sufficient bore to admit the collapsed leather of elastic piston,
and of the same length as the two cylinders Fig. 4, 4, each having an oblique
flanch to annex to the flanches of the conical chamber's or pump's top and
bottom, with a communicating pipe with tap and lever from one cylinder to
the other, and marked a, a, and another pipe from the top of the cylinder
affixed to the smaller end or apex of the conical chamber, with valve in same,
and marked b, b, the cylinder at the base of the conical chamber having a
pipe from the lower end, and with a valve, and marked c, c, to communicate
with the main pipe given off from the lower end of the conical chamber, like-
wise having a valve, and marked d, d, and which enters the bottom of the
compresser. X represents a main service from the bottom of the compresser,
which divides into two branches, with each a tap, both united and worked by
a lever, each alternately shutting and opening at each stroke of the beam or
piston, each branch then ascending to the upper and smaller end of the conical
chamber, and marked e, e. E, E, piston rod to work an elastic metallic piston K.
and a solid piston in the cylinder at the upper part of conical chamber F, F
which is to descend through the centre of hollow tubes attached to an inner

page_text: The condenser, Fig. 2, containing common atmosphere being closed, and its
communication to all parts both by air and water, by the taps, the water is
allowed to descend from the cistern, Fig. 1, by turning the tap B. This
being allowed to run in until the standing pipe A shall remain full, will give
you any required power by the air A and the water B in the condenser,
according to the height of the cistern from the condenser, sixty feet being of
the power of two atmospheres. The required power, thus obtained, is
transmitted to Fig. 3, thro' the pipe a, by turning the tap. Thus the
power is applied to either surface of the piston A, according to its position,
corresponding action to the crank Y, on the piston A being set in
motion, the air on the other side of the piston, having once performed its duty,
is driven through the throttle valve or tap B, and from thence through the
pipes 6, 6, to the cylinders, Fig. 4, where it expands to the common atmo-
sphere pressure. The taps B being turned by a lever attached to the piston
rod in Fig. 3, the air from cylinders, Fig. 4, will be returned to the condenser
at each down stroke of pistons B attached to beams G, G. The water B,
being of the power of two atmospheres in condenser, passes thro' the pipe and
tap X, and from thence through the pipes e, e, to the upper part or surface of
the metallic piston K, being only at first a portion of the whole, but which
increases in its descent, affording a larger surface for the water to act on, the
and a