CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING OR DRAWING WATER OR OTHER FLUIDS
Year: 1841

page_text: TO. ALL TO WHOM THESE. PRESENTS. SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
BARNES, of Wigan, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most, Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-second day of March, One thousand eight hundred and
forty-one, in the fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Richard Barnes, Her especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Richard
Barnes, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and such others as I, the
said Richard Barnes, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no other, from time to time and at all times during the
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within England and Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING
OR DRAWING WATER OR OTHER FLUIDS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained
a proviso that I, the said Richard Barnes, shall cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be enrolled in Her 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.

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NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Barnes, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described and
ascertained in and by the Drawings hereto annexed, and the following
explanation thereof (that is to say):-
My Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Raising or Drawing Water
or other Fluids apply more particularly to that description of hydraulic
machine, engine, or apparatus, to be employed for domestic purposes, either in
inns, taverns, butlers' pantries, surgeries, bedrooms, waterclosets, or green-
houses, &c., or in place of the ordinary beer engines now in use, and consist in
the particular and novel construction, combination, or arrangement of the
working parts of such hydraulic machines, so as to occupy very little space,
and at the same time combining an ornamental exterior with the compactness
and simplicity of its internal operative arrangement.
In order that my improved hydraulic machine or apparatus may be fully
explained and its operation practically illustrated, I have attached to these
presents a Sheet of Drawings, representing three views of the same, and drawn
upon the scale of half the size. I should usually recommend or employ for
ordinary purposes Fig. 1, being an exterior elevation of the machine complete ;
Fig. 2, a partial section, taken vertically through the casing of the apparatus;
and Fig. 3, a complete vertical section, taken through the middle of the
apparatus, and exhibiting the whole of the internal operative arrangement of
the mechanism. Its exterior or casing is composed of a neat cylindrical or
square pedestal or column a, a, a, a, of brass, zinc, or other ornamental metal,
and of any form or device suitable to taste or convenience; it may be firmly
attached to the bottom of the pump barrel by small screws a*, a,
and the
whole screwed or otherwise fixed in its appointed situation by means of, a nut,
as at 6, fastening it to the board c, c. The working barrel d, d, is screwed to
the bottom piece or flanch e, e, and has a cover or top f, f, also screwed to it.
In this barrel an ordinary pump bucket or plunger 9, 9, works, provided with a
lift valve /, corresponding with the valve i in the bottom piece e. The rod of
the bucket or plunger g, g, is attached by means of connecting links k, k, to the
lever 1, attached to the handle or pull m, and working upon the fulcrum n fixed
in the outer casing. The head or cross piece of the bucket rod works up and
down in two parallel upright grooves or guide pieces p, p, fastened by flanches
below to the barrel, and by ears 9 above the inside of the casing a, a. A small
piper below, proceeding from the cistern or other reservoir, is attached by the
screw joints, and thus it will be seen that as the handle or pull m is depressed
the pump is put in action, the liquor passing in the direction of the arrows

page_text: through the valves up the pipe or way t, attached to the barrel d, and out
through the tap u. The stroke of the handle m may be made to draw exactly
half a pint, or other required quantity of liquor, at each pull.
I would here remark, in conclusion, that the machine is so constructed (as
will be seen in Fig. 3) that it may be unscrewed in all its parts, so that any
obstruction in its interior may be readily removed. The interior of the machine
and all the working parts at all exposed to the action of the liquor, are to be
constructed of pure block tin, and consequently will prevent any disagreeable
flavour or pernicious property being imparted to the liquor passing through it.
And although it should be in disuse for any length of time, it will thus entirely
escape corrosion.
Having now described the particulars of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be understood that I am
aware there may be little novelty in the several parts of the mechanism de-
scribed when separately considered, but I claim as my Invention the novel and
peculiar construction, combination, and arrangement of the machinery or
apparatus for drawing water or other fluids, as exhibited in the Drawings
attached and herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Barnes, have hereunto set my hand