Improvements in the Means or Apparatus for Transmitting Motion to Pumps.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1887.
Complete Left, 15th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 26th Aug., 1887.
Improvements in the Means or Apparatus for Transmitting
Motion to Pumps.
We, THOMAS BOWER and ROBERT WILLIAM BOWER of Allerton Main Collieries,
Woodlesford, Colliery Proprietors, JAMES BLACKMAN, also of Allerton Main Collieries,
Colliery Manager, and FREDERICK MORI, of Corn Exchange, Leeds, Electric Engineer,
all in the County of York do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Our improvements refer to the employment of an electric motor combined with
storage or primary batteries for imparting motion to pumps. in mines, ships and other
places.
The motor may be attached to the pump, and we give motion thereto for actuating
the pump by battery power which may consist of a suitably constructed storage,
combined with a primary battery, or either of them separately.
The power may also be transmitted to the motor through a cable to any convenient
distance from a dynamo machine.
The motor is engaged with the pump by means of suitable gearing. Means are
also adopted for regulating the speed of the motor, and by so doing the speed of the
pump is also regulated.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Means or Apparatus for Transmitting
Motion to Pumps.
We, THOMAS BOWER and ROBERT WILLIAM BOWER of Allerton Main Collieries,
Woodlesford, Colliery Proprietors, JAMES BLACKBURN, also of Allerton Main Collieries,
Colliery Manager, and FREDERICK MORI of Corn Exchange, Leeds, Electric Engineer,
all in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
what mannor the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
Our improvements refer to the employment of an electric motor combined with
storage or primary batteries for imparting motion to pumps in mines, ships and other
places.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a plan showing our improvements applied
to one pump, and Fig. 2 a plan showing the same applied to two or more pumps.
Fig. 3 shews enlarged detail of storage battery arrangement.
In each figure, A represents the barrel of the pump, B the plunger, C the con-
necting rod and D the crank shaft, these all being of ordinary construction and
mounted on the foundation plate E in the ordinary way.
We attach the motor F by means of ordinary or suitable couplings G to a shafi H,
on which is keyed or otherwise secured the worm I. This worin I is engaged with a
worm wheel J fixed on the crank shaft D, and a rotary motion is transmitted through
it from the worm I to the crank shaft D.
The rotary motion is imparted to the motor F, and thence to the shaft H and
worm I from the storage or secondary batteries K, from primary batteries to such
storage batteries K and thence to the motor F, or from the primary batteries direct to
the motor.
In order to bring into action the power applied to the motor F from the batteries K,
or to break off the connection and prevent waste of power whilst the pumps are out
of motion, we provide the shunt or sliding switch L having thereon at certain
distances apart copper connecting plates M which correspond with the lower stationary
plates N, and on the sides of the switch apparatus we attach the terminals O. By
moving the sliding switch L in one direction the whole of the plates M and N are
brought in contact with each other, thus connecting the full electric current to actuate
the motor F, and by moving such sliding switch L in the opposite direction the
plates M and N are separated, and the electric current stopped entirely without waste
of power. To regulate the amount of power we disconnect any required number of
wires P, thus increasing or reducing the action of the pump as required.
The power may also be transmitted to the motor F through a cable to any convenient
distance from a dynamo machine.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1st. The arrangement and application of storage or secondary batteries K, in
combination with a motor F, for imparting motion to ram and other pumps, sub-
stantially as and for purposes herein set forth.
2nd. The arrangement and application of primary batteries, in combination with
storage or secondary batteries K, or otherwise, for imparting motion to a motor F,
substantially as and for purposes herein set forth.
3rd. The arrangement and application of shunt or sliding switch L and parts
connected therewith for bringing into action the power applied to the motor F, for
imparting motion to pumps, or breaking off the battery connection, substantially as
herein set forth.
J. W. HARDING,
Agents for the Applicants.