Improvements in the Construction of Canals or Water Courses, and in the Means Employed for Imparting a Current to the Water for Moving Boats and other Vehicles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Improvements in the Construction of Canals or Water Courses, and
in the Means Employed for Imparting a Current to the Water
for Moving Boats and other Vehicles.
We, ARTHUR PICKARD and WALTER PICKARD both of Gascoigne Street, Boar
Lane, Leeds in the County of York, Merchants, 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 :—
The object of our invention is to construct canals or water courses of a circuitous
description, and to provide means for imparting a current to the water for moving
boats and other vehicles.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a plan of a canal or watercourse of a
circuitous character showing general arrangement. Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan and
Fig. 3 side elevation of apparatus employed for producing the current. Fig. 4 is a
section of canal or water course, shewing boat floating therein. Fig. 5 a section
of canal shewing arrangement for moving waggons or other vehicles. In the drawings
we have shewn a canal or water course A of an ornamental description suitable for
gardens or other pleasure grounds, and in order to create a current throughout the
length of such canal or water course we employ a propellor B, paddle wheel, pump or
other mechanical means, whereby the water is drawn from one side C to the other
side D and passed round in a current throughout the whole length of the canal as
shewn by arrows, or vice versa, the same water being passed round or made to travel in
a current as often as required. The boat or other vehicle E is placed in the water
at. D, the current being produced, the boat or other vehicle floats along with the
stream until it arrives at C, it is then conducted through lock F and round again to
the starting point D. Other means may when preferred be employed for transferring
the boats from one side C to the other side D. The rotary movement is imparted to
the propellor B, paddle wheel, pump or other mechanical means, from any convenient
or suitable source.
The current or flow of water produced in the above manner may be employed for
imparting motion to waggons or other vehicles, this being effected as shewn at Fig. 5

page_text: in which A is the canal, G the waggon or other vehicles mounted on wheels H which
are made to run on the rails J placed at each side of the canal or water course; and
in order that the current or stream may move such waggon or other vehicle we
provide a paddle or flat plate K which is hung on one end of the vehicle; the paddle
when placed across the canal as shewn at Fig. 5 is carried forward with the stream
actuating the waggon or other vehicle thereby; the speed of which depends upon the
angle of the paddle with regard to such stream. When the waggon is required to be
stopped the paddle is turned at right angles to the position shewn in drawing.
The above arrangement of canal may be employed wherever a circuitous water
course is required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
The construction of circuitous canals or water courses, having a current or stream
throughout the length thereof, produced or created, substantially as and for purposes
herein set forth.
Dated this 9th day of January 1889.
J. W. HARDING,
Agent for the Applicant.