CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY APPLICABLE TO THE RAISING FLUIDS AND OTHER BODIES
Year: 1837

page_text: COLLIER'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ELISHA
HAYDON COLLIER, of Globe Dock Factory, Rotherhithe, in the County of
Surrey, formerly of Boston, North America, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-first day of November, in the first year of Her reign,
and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Elisha Haydon Collier, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Elisha Haydon Collier, my exors, adñiors,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Elisha Haydon Collier, my exors,
admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times during the term of years therein mentioned,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY APPLICABLE TO THE RAISING FLUIDS AND OTHER
BODIES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me,
the said Elisha Haydon Collier, by an instrument in writing under my hand

page_text: and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same
to be inrolled 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Elisha Haydon Collier, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same are to be performed, are particularly de-
scribed and ascertained by the following description thereof, reference being
had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked
thereon (that is to say):-
My Invention of certain improvements in machinery applicable to the
raising of fluids and other bodies, consists in a novel combination and arrange-
ment of machinery or apparatus for raising or pumping water from out of
mines and ships' holds, and other deep places, together with suitable mechanism
attached or connected therewith, for the purpose of raising coal, ore, or other
heavy bodies from out of mines, or pit shafts, or heavy goods from out of ships'
holds, or weighing up of anchors, and such like purposes to which the same
are or may be applicable. The said apparatus or mechanism for raising heavy
bodies being so arranged and constructed as to be capable of being connected
with or disconted from the pumping machinery or apparatus at pleasure, as
occasion may require; the levers or handles connected with the pistons or
brackets of the pumping apparatus being worked or actuated by excentrics or
grooved cams placed upon a rotatory shaft, and acting upon anti-friction rollers
placed upon the said lever arms.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing is a side elevation of my improved
apparatus or mechanism; Figure 2 is a plan or horizontal representation of
the same, as applied to the pumping of water, and putting in motion of a
windlass or capstan for raising anchors or other heavy bodies, and will serve to
explain the nature of my said Invention and the manner of carrying the same
into effect. A, A, is the stage or platform upon which my improved machinery
is erected; B, B, the pumps; C, the windlass or capstan, mounted in proper
bearings or standards; D, the rotary shaft of the excentrics, which is set in
motion by a band a passed from a steam engine, water wheel, or other first
mover, over the pulley or rigger b securely mounted on the shaft D. Upon
this shaft are also mounted in a similar way the two excentrics or grooved
cams C, D, having the grooves e, e, formed in them by the double rims of

page_text: metal or rings f,f, formed upon the arms; g, h, are the levers or handles of
the pumps, having their fulcrums in the standard at i, and their shorter ends
connected by the link pieces k, k, to the piston rods 1, 2, of the pumps, the
other end of the levers carrying the anti-friction roller m, m, working in the
grooves e, e, of the excentrics. The other extremities of the levers g, h, are
attached to the palls or ratchets o, o, which take into the ratchet teeth p, p, of
the wheel q, securely attached to the capstan or windlass, upon which the draft
chain or rope is wound while the anchor or other heavy body is being raised.
The action and operation of the machinery is as follows:-Upon rotary
motion being given to the shaft D, the excentric grooves e, e, as they revolve
will alternately raise and depress the ends of the levers g, h, by means of the
anti-friction rollers, which will produce and give the ordinary pumping motion
to the pistons of the pumps, at the same time the pall or ratchet will be made
to take into the teeth of the ratchet wheel, and consequently force round the
windlass or capstan, and wind up the draft chain or rope raising the heavy
body to the required height. When it is desired to disconnect the windlass or
capstan from the pumping machinery, it is only necessary to lift the palls from
off the ratchet wheel, and turn them back as shewn by dots in Figure 1, and
the pumping apparatus will go on without giving motion to the capstan.
Having now described my improvements, and the manner of carrying the
same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not claim as my Inven-
tion any of the parts separately, but what I consider as my Invention, secured
to me by the above in part recited Letters Patent, is, the novel or improved
combination and arrangement of machinery, above described and set forth, for
the purpose of pumping or raising water or other fluids, and raising heavy
bodies.
In witness whereof, I, the said Elisha Haydon Collier, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of May, in the year of our
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the within-
named Elisha Haydon Collier (being
first duly stamped) in the presence of
E. H. (L.S.) COLLIER.
JOHN GREGORY, Bedford Row.
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page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-first day of May, in the
year of our Lord 1838, the aforesaid Elisha Haydon Collier came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord One thou-
sand eight hundred and thirty-eight.