IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING AND APPLYING MOTIVE POWER
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Albert Moll, of Moutier Grandval, Bern
Switzerland, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING AND APPLYING MOTIVE POWER,"
Sealed the 1st October 1867, and dated the 2nd April 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jean Albert Moll at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd April 1867.
1, JEAN ALBERT MOLL, of Moutier Grandval, Bern, Switzerland, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING AND APPLYING MOTIVE POWER," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in the employment of a tube or cylinder, the interior
of which is enlarged to receive an egg, ellipsoidal, or spherical shaped body,
and which I call the "motor;" this motor is mounted on an axis stepped in
the cylinder, and the axis at the other end works in bearings also formed in
the cylinder. The motor carries spirals or screws on its periphery, the pitch
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page_text: of which is regulated by the cohesion and velocity of the water. Water
admitted to the cylinder and on coming in contact with the motor com-
municates rotary motion thereto.
To apply my Invention as a pump the mechanism before described is
employed, but to which I add valves. If the motor slides on its axis in
the cylinder its weight is regulated so that when no motion is required it
slides down and closes the suction pipe; sometimes I make the motor
hollow and place a governor inside, whereby the suction pipe is opened or
closed according to the speed communicated to the motor.
To apply it as hydraulic pressure one part of the tube is closed and the
other moves a piston, the upper part of the motor is put in communication
with water outside the machine.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Jean Albert Moll in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 2nd October 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEAN
ALBERT MOLL, of Moutier Grandval, Bern, Switzerland, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Jean Albert Moll, Her special licence that I, the said Jean Albert Moll, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Jean Albert
Moll, my executors, administrators, 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 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING AND APPLYING MOTIVE POWER," upon the con-
dition (amongst o hers) that 1, the said Jean Albert Moll, 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

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jean Albert Moll, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings,
that is to say :-
My Invention consists in the employment of a tube or cylinder enlarged
to receive an egg, ellipsoidal, or spherical shaped body; this body is mounted
on an axis stepped in the cylinder, and the axis at the other end works in
bearings also formed in the cylinder. The ellipsoidal body carries spirals,
screws, blades, or vanes on its surface, the pitch of which is regulated by
the cohesion and velocity of the water; I call the ellipsoidal-shaped body
with the screw vanes or blades the motor. Water is admitted to the
cylinder, and on coming in contact with the motor communicates rotary
motion thereto.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a longitudinal section of an
apparatus showing one method of carrying my Invention into effect. A, B,
is a tube, enlarged as shown at C; D is the motor egg-shaped, as shown,
carrying on its circumference screw blades or vanes, the number of which
vary as required. The "motor" D is mounted on a shaft F stepped at
bottom in the bracket, and at top working through bearings formed in the
tube A, B, as shown. If the end B of the tube A, B, is placed in water
and motion communicated to the shaft F on which the motor D is mounted
the rotation of the motor will, through the blades or vanes on its surface,
cause the water to rise above the said motor, and which will pass off in
any direction that may be provided for the same, as, for example, by the
pipe G connected to the tube A, B. In some cases the use of valves will
be found advantageous. I then calculate the weight of the motor D) so as
to balance the force of the rising water; I make the shaft E, F, on which
the motor is mounted to slide in the direction of the tube, and thus from
the rotation communicated to the motor it opens and closes the tube on the
side on which the water arrives, and so the motor itself becomes the valve
of the tube. Sometimes I make the motor hollow and place a governor
inside, whereby the suction pipe is opened or closed according to the speed
communicated to the motor.'
Figure 2 is a view of this arrangement. H is the regulator or governor;
I is the valve in the tube B; according to the speed at which the governor H

page_text: rotates so the size of the openings in the tube B are regulated by the
position of the valve I; by admitting water through the pipe either at the
end from B to G or from G to B, and on its coming in contact with the
wings or blades on the motor D a rotary motion is communicated thereto,
and by placing a pulley on the shaft or a crank the said motion may be
transmitted as required.
To apply my Invention as an hydraulic press one extremity of the tube
is closed and the other moves a piston, and which is set in motion by a
power equal to or greater than the rotary motion communicated to the motor.
Figure 3 is a view of an hydraulic press constructed according to my
Invention. I is the motor, as before, contained in a case or tube C; it is
mounted on a shaft F working in bearings in the case of the machine, and
carrying at its lower end a toothed wheel K whereby rotary motion is com-
municated to the motor D; L is a vessel or case surrounding the tube Cand
for containing water admitted thereto by the apertures M, M; N is the piston
of the press, and on which the water in the air-tight vessel O acts when
pressure is applied on communicating motion to the motor D through the
toothed wheel K. Water is drawn by the apertures x, x, from the vessel L,
which being drawn upwards by the rotation of the motor and following the
course of the blades thereon acts on the water in the tight vessel O, and
consequently the piston is thereby raised until the rotation of the motor
ceases. By reversing the motion of the motor the pressure is withdrawn.
Figure 4 is a modification of the above arrangement showing how it can
be applied where an external pressure of water can be obtained; in this case
water is admitted to the lower end of the motor by a pipe P leading from
a tank Q to the said motor, as shown. R is a tap in the pipe P, by turning
which the water is instantly admitted to the motor D, and the pressure
consequently almost instantly applied, by reversing the cock the pressure
is as quickly removed.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed I declare that although in this my
Specification I have especially named water as the motive power employed,
I would add it may be set in motion by other powers, such as air, gas, and
steam, and it may even be used as a ventilator and a steam turbine by
slight modifications, but without in any way departing from the essential
features of the Invention. I therefore claim as my improvements in
machinery or apparatus for obtaining and applying motive power the em-
ployment of a motor enclosed in a case or valve consisting of an egg,

page_text: ellipsoidal, or spherical-shaped body carrying wings, blades, or spherical-
shaped pieces having rotary motion imported thereto by the action of water,
air, gas, or steam upon the surface or surfaces of the said motor, all sub-
stantially in manner and for the purposes herein-before described and
llustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jean Albert Moll, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
JEAN ALBERT MOLL. (L.S.)
Eng.