IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING AND DISCHARGING WATER
Year: 1864

page_text: in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING AND DISCHARGING WATER."-A commu-
nication from abroad by Thomas Login, First-class Executive Engineer,
on Special Duty, Sealkote, in the Punjab, India.
Sealed the 21st February 1865, and dated the 24th August 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Spence at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 24th
August 1864.
I, WILLIAM SPENCE, of 8, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING AND DISCHARGING WATER," (being
a communication to me from abroad by Thomas Login, First-class Executive
Engineer, on Special Duty, Sealkote, in the Punjab, India,) to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the raising of water from a lower level
and the discharge of the same at a higher level, and is applicable either on
laud or on board of ships or other vessels. ⚫
The apparatus for this purpose consists of two sets or series of pipes, one
set or series of which are inclined upwards, and the others downwards, such
pipes being connected together by means of cisterns, valves, or other suitable
means of communication, and the lowest pipe terminating in a scoop or inlet

page_text: for the water, while the highest terminates in a discharge pipe or outlet for the
The several pipes in combination with the several cisterns, valves, or
other means of communication between them, constitute one continuous channel
or passage for water from the scoop or inlet pipe at the bottom to the discharge
pipe or outlet at the top of the series, and any water entering the said scoop
or inlet is caused to pass through each pipe in succession until it arrives at the
discharge pipe or outlet by giving a reciprocating motion to the apparatus, and
thereby alternately changing the direction of inclination of each successive
pipe in the series. In this respect the apparatus is similar to a screw conveyor,
except that it is caused to raise water through the agency of a reciprocating
motion instead of a rotary motion, as in the case of the latter.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
"
by the said William Spence in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
23rd February 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
"SPENCE, of 8, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, in the County, of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, send greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of August; in the year of our Lord'
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Spence, Her special, license that I, the said William. Spence,.
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said. William
Spence, 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 APPARATUS
FOR RAISING AND DISCHARGING WATER," being a communication from abroad by
Thomas Login, First-class Executive Engineer, on Special Duty, Sealkote, in the
Punjab, India, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William
Spence, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particu-
larly 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Spence, do hereby declare the
nature of the 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 Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters
and figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-
This Invention of "Improvements in Apparatus for Raising and Discharging
Water" has for its object the raising of water from a lower level and the dis-
charge of the same at a higher level, and is applicable either on land or on
board of ships or other vessels.
The apparatus for this purpose consists of two sets or series of pipes, one set
or series of which are inclined upwards and the other downwards, such pipes
being connected together by means of cisterns, valves, or other suitable means
of communication, and the lowest pipe terminating in a scoop or inlet for the
water, while the highest terminates, in a discharge pipe or outlet for the same.
The several pipes in combination with the several cisterns, valves, or other
means of communication with them constitute one continuous channel or
passage for water from the scoop or inlet pipe at the bottom to the discharge
pipe or outlet at the top of the series, and any water entering the said scoop
or inlet is caused to pass through each pipe in succession until it arrives at
the discharge pipe or outlet by giving a reciprocating motion to the apparatus,
and thereby alternately changing the direction of inclination of each successive
pipe in the series. In this respect the apparatus is similar to a screw con-
veyor, except that it is caused to raise water through the agency of a recipro-
cating motion instead of a rotary motion, as in the case of the latter.
Having thus stated the nature of the said Invention, I will proceed to
describe more particularly in what manner the same is to be performed by the
aid of the accompanying Diagrams, representing the apparatus as applied to a
ship or vessel.
Fig. 1 represents a section of a ship or vessel with the apparatus applied
thereto in such a manner as to adapt the latter for receiving its required
oscillating motion by the rolling of the ship or vessel; Fig. 2 is a plan or
horizontal view of the apparatus..
A, A,.are a series of pipes inclined upwards; B, B, are a similar series in-
clined downwards. These pipes are severally formed with one of their ends of
an enlarged sectional area; so as to admit of a connection being formed
between any two pipes by the smaller end of one passing into the larger end
of the other, but this mode of connecting the pipes may be varied by means of
cisterns or short cross pipes at each end of the longer or main pipes. A stop
valve may also be placed at or near the junction of every two pipes (sucli

page_text: valve being more or less water-tight as may be required), in order to prevent
the return of the water. In ordinary cases this valve may be of a very simple
character, consisting of a piece of sheet iron inserted in a slot formed in the
enlarged end of the pipe, and suspended from a pin or centres, such valve being
adapted to fall by its own gravity and cover the mouth of the pipe inserted in
such enlarged end. The several pipes are inclined to an angle of about ten
degrees with the horizontal line, but this angle may be varied. The lowest
pipe of the series A, A, terminates in a scoop, and the highest pipe has a dis-
charge or outlet at its end. It will be evident on reference to Fig. 1, that if
by an oscillating motion of the vessel the scoop end of the lowest pipe be raised
and its opposite end which enters, the pipe B be lowered, the water that had
previously entered the scoop from the hold of the ship or vessel will be caused
to flow into the enlarged end of the pipe B. Then, on the return oscillation of
the ship or vessel, the enlarged end of the pipe B will be raised, and that of the
next pipe A¹ lowered, when the water will be caused to flow into the pipe A';
additional water will also be caused to pass into the scoop A ready on the next
oscillation of the apparatus to flow into the pipe B. Thus by the successive
oscillations of the apparatus, caused by the rolling of the ship or vessel, the
water from the hold will be raised by its being transferred from each pipe to
the next in succession until it reaches the discharge pipe, when it will escape
at the outlet into the sea. The number of pipes in the series will be varied
according to the depth of the ship or vessel.
Fig. 3 represents a section of a ship or vessel with the apparatus applied
thereto in such a nianner as to adapt the latter to receive its required oscillating
motion by the pitching of the ship or vessel, or when the latter is tacking.
The apparatus in this case is shewn on each side of the ship or vessel, but this
mode of fitting it may be varied from that shewn, or it may be built into and
form part of the ship or vessel. The apparatus may also be mounted on a
frame, so as to admit of its being worked by the ship's crew. C, Figures 1 and
2, is a cock by which water may be admitted into the apparatus from the sea
and raised to the discharge pipe, which being closed by a throttle valve would
prevent the water from escaping, when it might be turned into a tank or
reservoir, or used for extinguishing fire in case of need. When the apparatus
is employed on land it will be mounted on a suitable frame, and the oscillating
motion imparted to it cither by animal agency or by mechanical power. It is
well adapted for what is called "Dhall irrigation," (that is to say,) to raise
water a few feet from irrigation channels, and when thus employed the use of
valves may be preferable to that of only cisterns, so that there may be as little
fall of water as possible aud that back flow may be prevented.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of the said Invention communicated to me
as aforesaid, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I hereby
declare that what I claim as of the Invention is, the apparatus consisting of
two sets of inclined pipes combined so as to be capable of raising water from
a lower to a higher level when the apparatus has an oscillating motion
imparted to it either by the motion of a ship or vessel to which it is applied,
or by the agency of animal or mechanical power, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Spence, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-third day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Witness,
W. A. JACKSON,
8, Quality Court,
Chancery Lane.
WILLIAM SPENCE. (L.s.)