Improvements relating to the Raising of Liquids, Grain, or the like, and to Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Sept., 1898-Accepted, 6th May, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Raising of Liquids, Grain, or the
like, and to Apparatus therefor.
I, ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ, of Albacete, in the Kingdom of Spain, 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 :-
This invention relates to the raising of liquid or solid matter, utilising the vacuum
produced in a rapidly rotating tubular body by the centrifugal action developed in one
of its parts.
I will now describe the principal methods by which the invention may be most
advantageously carried into practice, although they may all be modified without
departing from the principle upon which the invention is based.
In the accompanying drawings:
Figure is a perspective view showing one form of apparatus for raising
liquids.
Figure 2 is a similar view of an apparatus adapted to be driven by horse power after
the manner of a horse capstan.
Figure 3 represents another modification of the improved apparatus, wherein a
better result is obtained and
Figure 4 shews a further modification.
Referring to Figure 1, which shows the simplest form of the mechanism for the
purpose of my invention when applied to depths up to nine meters; 8 is a tube
which has in its lower part a check valve 7 and a pivot that turns on the bearing 6.
The tube has a suction pipe 9 and opposite to the latter there is a counter weight 10
adapted to balance it. In order to hold the tube 8 in an upright position and to
facilitate its rotation, I arrange about midway of its length a bracket guide 5, through
which the said tube passes the latter having on its upper part a shank 2 that passes
through the wood block 3 and carries at the end a pulley 1 provided with a winch or
handle in order to drive it at will. The arrows indicate the direction followed by the
liquid.
The main part of the apparatus is the pipe 9 wherein a vacuum is produced by the
liquid itself impelled by the rapidity of the centrifugal motion.
Figure 2 is a view of another apparatus adopted so as to be driven by horse power
and has for its object to raise the water nine meters high and to cool it on expulsion.
The apparatus comprises a beam 1 to which the horse is yoked, a spindle 11 that passes
through the beam, the seat or bracket for supporting the apparatus and the gearing
connected with same. The upper gear wheel 12 transmits accelerated motion to the
smaller wheel 13 which in connection with other two wheels 14 and 15 produces the
motion of the shaft that carries the fly-wheel 11.
This fly-wheel comprises three principal parts viz. the hub 10 which connects tube 8
to its branch pipes 9 Figure 1 these branch pipes are connected with the hub 10 at
one end and at the other with a fly-wheel 11 whose object is to prevent the separation
of the water strata stored in pipes 9 and the entrance of air. The lower part of the
apparatus is altogether similar to the one described in the preceding Figure with
the exception of a small variation shown in dotted lines. The variation consists in the

page_text: application of a bent or other shaped tube which may be conducted to another point
more or less distant. For this purpose the said tube is joined to the one connected to
the suction fly-wheel by means of a stuffing-box 16 in order to allow the rotation of
the upper tube and fly-wheel and to prevent air entering the joint.
Figure 3 represents another modification of the apparatus in the manner of a
progressive improvement. It differs froin the others by its being exhausting and
propelling with the necessary power to raise the liquid more than fifty meters high.
As shewn in the drawing, its construction is the same as that of Figure 2 only that
the tube 8 carries two hollow fly-wheels 11, 11 mounted in such a way that they will
produce the exhausting and propelling action the rotating motion being consequently
less rapid than if a single fly-wheel was employed. It has besides inside the tube an
additional shaft 12 with two blades 14-14 fixed on the axle at a certain distance
apart, each of which blades operate within each of the two fly-wheels for the purpose
hereafter described. This shaft 12 is fastened at the top to the bracket 15. The
working of the apparatus is as follows. Once it is started by means of the belt 13,
which communicates with the engine or motor, the arms 9 of the lower fly-wheel
form the vacuum and the water begins to rise through tube 8 being propelled towards
the fly-wheel and as soon as it has a tendency to cease rotating within the wheel, the
water already stored therein will tend to escape through an opening that leads to the
inside of the upper vertical tube and ascend to the upper fly-wheel which in turn
works in the same way. In order that the rotation of the liquid may be checked I
provide within each fly-wheel 11, 11, the blades 14, 14, which, being fixed to the
shaft 12, which does not rotate, have the effect of checking the rotation of the liquid
in each fly wheel, and thus enables the liquid to ascend under the pressure of the
atmosphere from each fly wheel to that immediately above it.
Figure 4 represents a modification of Figure 1 and comprises a pulley 1 fixed to
the vertical shaft 12 guided through pipe 16 which latter is fixed on the bearing of a
cross beam 3.
The shaft 12 has two arms or horizontal cross bars 4-4 intended to
carry the upright tubes and the propelling tubes 9-9. The parallel and upright
portion of these tubes 9-9 is intended for guiding the liquid or the like whilst the
bent shape of the lower part 8 is intended for raising the liquid. The inclined
tubes 9-9 are also adopted to raise grain, dry sand and other like materials and I
can also employ two cones an inner one and an outer one instead of the tubes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be perforined, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The raising of liquids, grain or the like by the centrifugal force of a rotating
suction pipe or tube one end of which projects into the liquid to be raised while the
other or upper end thereof is provided with a branch pipe or tube forming an outlet
for the liquid or the like substantially as described with reference to Figure 1 of the
drawing.
2. An apparatus for raising liquids grain or the like by the rotation of a suction
pipe or tube such rotation being effected by a kind of horse-capstan acting upon a
train of gear wheels connected to the said suction pipe substantially as described and
shown in Figure 2 of the drawing.
3. The modified form of apparatus for raising water grain or the like substantially
as herein before described with reference to Figure 3 or with reference to Figure 4 of
the drawing.
Pated this 3rd day of September 1896.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.