AN ENGINE FOR RAISING LIQUIDS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS. PATENT to André Alexandre Beaumont, Mechanician, of 2, Rue
-Ste. Appoline, Paris, France, and of 4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
for the Invention of "AN ENGINE FOR RAISING LIQUIDS."
Sealed the 12th February 1861, and dated the 30th August 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said André Alexandre
Beaumont at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition on the 30th August 1860.
I, ANDRÉ ALEXANDRE BEAUMONT, Mechanician, of 2, Rue Ste. Appoline,
Paris, France, and of 4, South Street, Finsbury, London,do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention for "AN ENGINE FOR RAISING LIQUIDS," to be
as follows, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in a new combination of apparatus for the construction
of an engine or machine for raising water to a great height.
The engine is composed of a series of cylinders placed vertically one on the
other in two lines, in such a way that the axis of each cylinder may correspond
with the middle of the space left between two cylinders of each line. Each
cylinder is provided with a trough, which surrounds nearly the whole of its
circumference, and the liquid is held and directed by cheeks; each cylinder is
set in motion by an axis, which turns in bearings supported by uprights; this
axis is furnished on one or both sides with a pulley in contact with the pulleys
of two adjacent cylinders; by this means, when a circular movement is given

page_text: to one of the cylinders of the series, it is given to all the cylinders of the
apparatus.
The operation of the machine is as follows:-The lower cylinder being
immersed about one-third of its diameter in the water, the circular motion
will draw up.
the water, and will make it pass into the trough of the second
cylinder, which will pass it into the trough of the third, and so on to the
top of the apparatus: The apparatus may be worked by water power
transmitted from a wheel provided with float boards, and moved by a current
of water, or by other motive power.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said André Alexandre Beaumont in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 27th February 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ANDRÉ
ALEXANDRE BEAUMONT, Mechanician, of 2, Rue Sainte Appoline; Paris,
France, and of 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the.
said André Alexandre Beaumont, Her special licence that I; the said André
Alexandre Beaumont, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said André Alexandre Beaumont, my. executors, adminis-
trators, 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, use, exercise, and vend, within the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "AN ENGINE FOR RAISING LIQUIDS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said André Alexandre Beaumont, 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 André Alexandre Beaumont, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the

page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in 'and'
by the following statement, reference being had' to the Drawing hereto
annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in an improved construction of apparatus for raising
water and other liquids to a great height.
The engine is composed of a series of superposed cylinders placed hori-
zontally in two vertical rows, so that the axes of each cylinder will correspond'
with the middle of the space reserved between two cylinders of the other row.
Each cylinder is composed of 2, 3, or a greater number of plates, united'
together by a circular piece, which completely closes the cylinder, and each'
cylinder has a part surrounded by a trough, the lateral sides of which are
closed by the standards, which form the supports of the apparatus; these
troughs are for receiving, supporting, and directing the liquid set in motion by"
the rotation of the cylinders. The shaft of each cylinder has one or two
pullies set on it for receiving two straps or bands to transmit the circular move-
ment from the motive power to all the cylinders of the apparatus. If the
trough of the lower cylinder be supplied with water, a rotative movement must
be transmitted to the cylinders to draw up the water to the upper part of the
apparatus, from whence it can be discharged according as circumstances require.
These cylinders can be put in motion by any suitable motive power. If there
is a current of water it may be taken advantage of for turning a wheel, which
will transmit the rotative movement to the cylinders. By the employment of
this combination of apparatus water can be raised to a great height without
the aid of other contrivances.
The annexed Drawing shows an apparatus composed of five cylinders,
serving to illustrate the principle of the apparatus.
Figure 1 is a section on the line No. 1 of Figure 2; Figure 2 is a side view
drawn perpendicularly to Figure 1.
It will be seen that the cylinders A are composed of discs keyed to the
shafts B, its circumference being of wood, with a covering of metal; these
cylinders may, however, be constructed in any other suitable manner, provided
that their circumference be strong and uniform. The shafts B revolve on the
rollers C, which may be replaced by bearings adjusted to the standards C
(represented as made of cast iron), but which may be made of wood. Each
of the shafts B supports two pullies D, which, by means of the cross straps E,
transmit the rotatory movement from one cylinder to another. The lower
cylinder is nearly surrounded with a trough F, having holes in it to allow the
entrance of water into it, and for preventing foreign bodies from entering
between the trough and the lower cylinder, which it contains. Each of the

page_text: other cylinders has a part of its circumference, also continued in a trough G
for conveying water from one cylinder to another; for this purpose it will be
seen that the troughs G commence above one of the cylinders, follow along a
part of the circumference of the upper cylinder and widen out, so as to convey
the water from one cylinder to another, and so on, until it reaches the upper
part of the apparatus, whatever may be the number of cylinders, or the height
to which it may be required to raise the water, which finally runs off into a
channel to be directed where required. The standards C are kept in an
upright position by bolts, and at their lower part they are fixed upon sleepers,
which sleepers are attached firmly at the lower part of the place where the
water required to be raised is situated. Water is conducted from the lower
part of the apparatus in a tangential direction to the last cylinder
a channel,
and its arrival is regulated by means of one or of several vanes. Movement is
preferably transmitted to the lower cylinder by means of a strap and pulley
mounted on a shaft. The rotatory movement of this cylinder is communicated
to all those of the apparatus, and its movement causes water to pass under the
trough of the second, which in its turn causes it to pass into the trough, of the
third cylinder, and so on, to the upper part of the apparatus containing as
many cylinders as is necessary to raise water or other liquid to the required
height.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, what I claim is, the peculiar construction of an
apparatus or engine in which the rotatory motion of cylinders is employed
for raising liquids, and by which they may be raised a great height, as
herein-before described and shown in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said André Alexandre Beaumont, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
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