CREATING A CONTINUAL SELF-ACTING, SELF-SUSTAINING, NEW MOTIVE POWER, APPLICABLE TO EVERY PURPOSE REQUIRING SPEED, MOTION, AND POWER, TOGETHER OR SEPERATELY
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Adderley Willcocks Sleigh, might of the Most
Noble and Ancient Order of the Tower and Sword, M.R.H.S., Captain
Royal Services of Portugal and Spain, late R.N., of No. 1, Weymouth
Street, Portland Place, Middlesex, London, for the Invention of "CREATING
A CONTINUAL SELF-ACTING, SELF-SUSTAINING, NEW MOTIVE POWER, APPLICABLE
TO EVERY PURPOSE REQUIRING SPEED, MOTION, AND POWER, TOGETHER OR
SEPERATELY."
Sealed the 7th July 1854, and dated the 24th January 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Adderley Willcocks Sleigh
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th January 1854.
I, ADDERLEY WILLCOCKS SLEIGII, Knight of the Most Noble and Ancient
Order of the Tower and Sword, M.R.H.S., Captain Royal Services of Portugal
and Spain, late R.N., of No. 1, Weymouth Street, Portland Place, in the
County of Middlesex, London, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "CREATING A CONTINUAL SELF-ACTING, SELF-SUSTAINING, NEW MOTIVE
POWER, APPLICABLE TO EVERY PURPOSE REQUIRING SPEED, MOTION, AND POWER,
TOGETHER OR SEPERATELY," to be as follows:-
Firstly, the application, by a certain mechanical agency, of the principle of
the imponderosity or identification of lesser quantities or bodies of of fluids or
liquids in fluids or liquids of their own nature, or otherwise, and of the same
or different temperatures.

page_text: Secondly, the application, by the above said mechanical agency, of the
principle of the ponderosity, attraction, or specific gravity and momentum of
fluids or liquids in the atmosphere, or in any less dense medium, or in
vacuum.
Thirdly, the application, by the above said mechanical agency, of the
principle of ponderosity, specific gravity or attraction, and momentum of solids
in the atmosphere, or in a less dense medium, or in vacuum.
Fourthly, the application, by the aforesaid certain mechanical agency, of the
principle of the specific gravity or momentum of solids, being less when in
fluids or liquids than in the atmosphere.
Fifthly, the application, by the aforesaid mechanical agency, of the principle
of the power, velocity, or momentum of buoyancy in fluids or liquids, whether
by the compression or expansion of atmosphere, or by inflation, or by vacuum,
or by gases, or by the atmosphere in its natural state.
"
Sixthly, the application of the principle of original or additional motive
power created by the action and operation of a consecutive juxta hydrostatic
valve or valves accomplishing the atomical displacement of liquids or fluids
within its or their limits of action, thus throwing an effective preponderance of
alternate or continual hydrostatic pressure or weight on any required side or
sides of a cylinder, closed vessel, or valve, and acting either independently of
the five herein mentioned foregoing principles or natural laws, or in union with
them, as carried out by the employment of the aforesaid certain mechanical
agency as a continual motive power..
I claim the combination and application of all or any of the first five
foregoing herein mentioned principles or natural laws, by the employment of
the before-mentioned. certain mechanical agency as the basis of my Inven-
tion or discovery, as creating a new motive power by means of a certain
mechanical contrivance or engine, and the employment of the before-men-
tioned valve. I, however, do not confine myself to any particular mechanical
contrivance.
With regard to the sixth, last, and herein-before mentioned principle of
original or additional motive power acquired by the action or operation of a
consecutive juxta hydrostatic valve or valves, as throwing by the atomical dis-
placement of fluids or liquids a continual or alternate preponderance of hydro-
static pressure or weight on any required side or sides of a cylinder, closed
-vessel, or valve, I claim that particular valve, or valves of its its nature or
description, as the means both of acquiring a new motive power of itself under
hydrostatic pressure or weight, and also as being in connection with the afore-
said certain mechanical means I adopt in part, and in itself essential to the

page_text: I use water or any other fluid or liquids, or gases, or solids, or any
admixture of them, in the creation of a continual self-acting new motive
power, self-sustaining, except as regards the wear and tear of materials and
the occasional supply, if required, of the eliments or parts of the elements
I use.
ADDITION TO PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
THE CERTAIN MECHANICAL AGENCY.
The five afore-mentioned annexed principles or natural laws, as also the
operation of the consecutive juxta hydrostatic valve or valves aforesaid under
the sixth and last head, I apply to the creation of a continual self-acting, self-
sustaining, new motive power, by the employment of a fixed semicircular
cylinder of hollow hemisphere placed in a vertical position, the open air
forming a natural atmospherical hemisphere within it's limits of action.
To the lower extremity or portion of the fixed semicircular cylinder or hollow
hemisphere I attach the before-mentioned consecutive juxta hydrostatic valve
or valves, each, excepting the outward one, being perforated by a small hole,
& forming, when all are open excepting the outward one, a continuous duct
or channel, from the orifice of the inner valve of which a small tube ascends
to the summit of the hemisphere, in which tube is placed a piston weighted,
the consecutive juxta hydrostatic valve or valves being self-acting.
To the superior portion or summit of the semicircular cylinder or hemisphere
I fix a simple self-acting slide valve.
.
In the centre of a circle of which the semicircular cylinder or hollow
hemisphere forms the half, I place an axis or axle, with spokes extending from
the said centre to a wheel which cuts or passes through a groove in the inner
margin of the semicircular cylinder or hemisphere, thus forming an endless
revolving slit valve wheel, round and to the outward periphery of which I attach
hollow cases at numerous points of the radii, each having two compartments,
one for water & the other for air, the one for water having a self-acting valve,
to open on entering the lower part of the hemisphere, & to close on leaving
the upper part, the air compartments to be hermetically closed. The con-
secutive juxta hydrostatic valve placed at the lower extremity of the hemi-
sphere, being the point of ingress, is worked by an eccentric or cam wheel and
levers on & from the axle or main shaft, or by lateral wheels and springs, the
upper valve also being worked from the axle, and being the point of egress.
On the hemisphere being filled with water or any other liquid or fluid, as

page_text: also the tube or tubes, the antagonizing laws of buoyancy and gravity are at
once placed in motion in their opposite elements of water and air, by the action
of which a continual self-acting, self-sustaining rotatory power is created, the
lower or ingress valve by a lateral progressive atomical displacement of water
keeping a thin film or stratum of that element in close contact with and under
the air cases while passing through the juxta consecutive valve, and by this
operation, through the action of the aforesaid tube and piston extending from
the lower to the upper portion of the hemisphere, exercising under the hydro-
static pressure thus caused an additional rotatory power and velocity.
I attach any weight to cach air case which it is capable of buoying up (or
cases), in order to acquire more power by the laws of gravity..
Extending from the lower to the upper part of the hemisphere is a small
equilibrium pump, worked by an eccentric on the axles, for resuscitating, if
required, any fluid that may escape.
In place of the cases I can use a hollow wheel divided alternately into
air and water compartments, and attached to the outward periphery of the slit
valve wheel, and in this case I use the rotatory power to open the hydrostatic
valve or valves, or to assist in opening them, thus making them the original
power transmitted by means of pistons and cylinders placed at each side of
the hemisphere.
This is the nature of the mechanical agencies I have alluded to in the fore-
going enumeration of the principles or natural laws upon which my discovery
is based, under, however, those modifications, additions, and improvements,
that a practical application of my power will enable me to make in my perfect
Specification, as at present I have only given the preference to those mecha-
nical agencies herein described, and to any particular dimensions or proportions
I do not confine my Invention or discovery.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Adderley Willcocks Sleigh in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 20th July 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ADDERLEY
WILLCOCKS SLEIGH, Knight of the Most Noble and Ancient Order of the
Tower and Sword, M.R.H.S., Captain Royal Services of Portugal and Spain,
late R.N., of No. 1, Weymouth St., Portland Place, Middlesex, London, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of January. in the year of our

page_text: Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Adderley Willcocks Sleigh, Her special licence that I, the said
Adderley Willcocks Sleigh, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Adderley Willcocks Sleigh, 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 Inven-
tion for "CREATING A CONTINUAL SELF-ACTING, SELF-SUSTAINING, NEW MOTIVE
POWER, APPLICABLE TO EVERY PURPOSE REQUIRING SPEED, MOTION, AND POWEE,
TOGETHER OR SEPARATELY," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Adderley Willcocks Sleigh, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said In-
vention, 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 Adderley Willcocks Sleigh, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to ve
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
.
statement:-
Firstly, the application, by the mechanical agency herein-after described,
of the principle of the imponderosity or identification of lesser quantities or
bodies of fluids or liquids in fluids or liquids of their own nature, or otherwise,
and of the same or different temperatures.
Secondly, of the principle of the ponderosity, attraction, or specific gravity
and momentum of fluids or liquids in the atmosphere, or in any less dense
medium, or in a vacuum.
Thirdly, of the principle of ponderosity, specific gravity, or attraction and
momentum of solids, in the atmosphere, or in a less dense medium, or in a
vacuum.
Fourthly, of the principle of the specific gravity or momentum of solids,
being less when in fluids or liquids than in the atmosphere.
Fifthly, of the principle of the power, velocity, or momentum of buoyancy
in fluids or liquids, whether by the compression or expansion of the atmo-
sphere, or by inflation, or by vacuum, or by gases, or by the atmosphere in its
natural state.
Sixthly, and lastly, the application of the principle of original or additional
motive power acquired or created by the action and operation of a consecutive

page_text: juxta hydrostatic valve or valves accomplishing the atomical displacement
of liquids within its or their limits of action, thus throwing an effective pre-
ponderance of alternate or continual hydrostatic pressure or weight on any
required side or sides of a chamber, cylinder, closed vessel, or valve, and acting
either independently of the five herein mentioned foregoing principles or
natural laws, or in union with them, as carried out by the employment of the
following or similar mechanical agency as a continual motive power. I claim
that particular valve, or valves of its nature or description, as the means both
of acquiring a new motive power of itself under hydrostatic pressure or weight,
and in connexion with the following mechanical agency, as being in part and
in itself essential to the creation of a motive power, also by uniting or aiding
the first five herein mentioned principles or natural laws.
The five before-mentioned principles or natural laws, as also the operation
of the consecutive juxta hydrostatic valve or valves aforesaid, I apply to the
creation of a continual self-acting, self-sustaining, new motive power by the em
ployment of a fixed semicircular cylinder; vide first Plate, Fige No. 1; or hollow
hemisphere D, D, D, D, placed in a vertical position, the open air forming a
natural atmospherical hemisphere within the limits of the action of the engine.
To the lower extremity of the fixed semicircular hemisphere I attach the before-
mentioned consecutive juxta hydrostatic valve or valves K, K, each, excepting
the outward one O, being perforated by a small hole, and forming, when all
the valves inside O are open excepting the outward one, a continuous duct or
channel; from the orifice of the inner valve P, close above that letter, a small
tube Q ascends to the summit of the hemisphere at H, in which tube is placed
the piston R, weighted, the consecutive juxta hydrostatic valve or valves
being self-acting, or otherwise if required, or may be worked by any extraneous
aid. To the superior portion or summit of the semicircular cylinder or
hemisphere is fixea a simple slide valve or stuffing box S. In the centre of
a circle of which the hemisphere forms half is placed an axis or axle, at a
little below the letter A, with spokes B, B, B, B, extending from the said
centre to a highly polished wheel C, C, C, C, which wheel cuts or passes
through a groove T, T, T, T, in the inner margin or concave side of the semi-
circular cylinder or hemisphere. Thus the wheel C, C, C, C, forms an endless
revolving slit valve wheel, round and to the outward periphery of which, in-
serted in the hemisphere, I attach the hollow cases E, E, E, E, E, E, E, E, at
numerous points of the radii, only four of them being visible in Fig 1, the
other four having entered the hemisphere, vide second Plate, Fig 2, each of
those cases having two compartments F, F, one for water, marked W, the
other for air, marked A, the one for water having a self-acting valve G, G, G,

page_text: to open on entering the hemisphere, and to close on leaving the upper part of
it; the air compartments are hermetically closed. The consecutive juxta
hydrostatic valve or valves K, K, placed at the lower part of the hemisphere,
being the point of ingress transmission, are worked either by an excentric or
cam wheel and levers on and from the axle A, or by lateral revolving barrels
with cams and stops, and wheels with levers and springs, vide second Plate,
Figs. Nos. 1, 3, & 4, letters U, U, V, W, X, X, the upper valve S, Fig 1,
being the point of egress; transmission is worked also from the axle A, if
required. Figs. 10, 11, & 12, in Plate 1st, shew sections of the power and
speed being gained by a continuous cylindrical wheel, with sides either square
or round, and being divided into numerous air and water compartments, vide
Figs. 10 & 11, or for water compartments alone, vide Fig 12. The air cases
in Fig 10 are closed hermetically, but on entering the hemisphere they swing
on a hinge from out of a recess in the cylindrical wheel, thereby allowing the
air vessels at once to assume a position which gives to them their full power
of buoyancy by admitting the water underneath; in this there are also fixed
water and air cases. Fig 11 is nearly similar, except when the valves open
on entering the hemisphere a part of the water in the cylindrical wheel and
the water in the hemisphere become identified, consequently losses all weight.
Fig 12 has no air, but consecutive compartments for water, the valves of
which open on entering the hemisphere; an identification takes place, and
all weight ceases in the hemispherical half of the cylindrical wheel, while
the other half in the open air, being laden, descends and rotates with a
gravitating velocity and momentum equal to its circumference, height, and
weight. A single, double, triple, or quadruple stuffing box at Z, Z, Z, may
be used as occasion requires for a valve at the lower part of the hemisphere.
The slit valve and slit valve wheel is the same in all cases, but it may be
brought close into the axle and its circumference reduced to the size of the
axle if required; in this case a single or double vertical slit valve is used. The
water compartments, if even kept closed, loose all weight on entering the hemi-
sphere. In all cases I use the consecutive juxta hydrostatic valve or valves; if
not at the ingress point of transmission in the hemisphere I apply them vertically
in a lateral position to augment the power, the hemisphere giving motion by
those natural laws it brings into action. At the same time I may use those
valves as a prime moving as well as an accessory power and motion, placing
them as seen in first and second Plates, Figs. No. 1, 3, 7, & 8, and connected
by the piston rods m, n, to the cranks 1, 1, on the main axle A. Figo No. 3
of second Plate shews an horizontal section or plan of the hemisphere engine,
with the juxta consecutive hydrostatic valves K, K, at the point of ingress

page_text: transmission, and also an horizontal section of those valves placed in a
lateral position under the axle. Figs. 5 & 6, second Plate, shew a vertical
section of the juxta hydrostatic valve or valves when placed perpendicularly in
a square cylindrical chamber; 2, n. n, n, are the walls or parieties of the
valvular hydrostatic chamber. e, e, e, e, e, c, Fige 9, as well as these, represents
the juxta consecutive hydrostatic valve plates as adapted to a circle or
hemisphere for the point of ingress transmission; and Figs. 5 & 6 shew those
valve plates (as applied to a square cylindrical hydrostatic chamber) entering
on two sides with a slight downward oblique tendency; they in other cases
may enter at right angles with the sides. 0, 0, represents the conical formed
piston head, through which and in the centre of the piston rod descends the
small tube c, of half or a quarter of an inch bore, less or greater as required,
of any convenient height. d, d, is a valvular duct through the piston head,
which closes on pressure from below upwards on the piston ascending, and
opens when the pressure is removed. On the piston descending this valve
has a double action and cuts off the hydrostatic pressure in the tube C on the
descent of the piston, and withdraws on arriving at the bottom of the chamber.
This valve d, d, communicates by the resuscitating tube K, K, with the
summit of the hemisphere, and keeps up, if required, a supply of water in the
juxta consecutive hydrostatic valve chamber. b is the piston rod, weighted at
will, and increased by suspending the weight at the end of a lever. f, f, ƒ‚ ƒ,
are the spiral flat springs, answering both in intent, shape, and operation
to W, W, in Fig 4, for closing the juxta hydrostatic valve plates when
opened by the revolving barrels g. 9, 9, 1, being a motion transferred from
the axle A, also answering in intent, purpose, and operation to N, N, in
Fig 1. Plate first, and to U, U, in Fig 4, second Plate, or are to be
opened by the conicle formed piston head or air or water cases in the
hemisphere. These valvular plates may be closed by the barrels g, g, I, I,
or levers a, a, and wheel and cam v, v, as shewn in Figs. 3 & 4; these
operations may be assisted by any extraneous aid if required. Fig 9, and
letter e, e, e, e, e, e, represent the valvular plates, c 4, 4 c, being one removed
from its angular grooves. The thinner and more numerous the juxta con-
secutive hydrostatic valvular plates are, the better for securing, without an
expenditure of more than a fractional part of the hydrostatic power or
speed, created, gained, or acquired by their peculiar, essential, and exclusive
quality of atomical displacement, by a thin edge being presented to any fluid
contained in the chamber, and at right angles with the hydrostatic pressure o
the smooth and polished surface of the valvular plates; for as it is only through
and by the disparity of and between the size of the tube and the superfices

page_text: acted upon through the medium of the said tube, it follows that as the disparity
increases, so does the power, hence that the edge of any solid measuring the
same in thickness as the orifice of the tube may be introduced edgewise
with little force or exertion, and the more superficial the extent the smooth
surface of that solid, the greater the power or pressure. Of a succession of
such polished plates touching but not pressing on each other, and sliding
in obtuse angular grooves through and into two sides of a closed mettallic
square or round chamber, is my juxta consecutive hydrostatic valve com-
posed and formed; thus the valvular chamber is at one moment occupied by
fluid, and the next is a solid mass of metal, by progressive atomical displace-
ment of the former and transposition of the latter. When those valve
chambers are formed as described in Figs. 5 & 6, and placed in motion by
being filled with water or any other fluid, and the piston rod weighted as in
Fig 6, the hydrostatic pressure is at once transmitted to the film of water
between the base of the conical piston and the bottom of the chamber, which
pressure drives up the piston, and every quarter or eight part of an inch it
rises (ie. the thickness of the valve plate) the valve plates are rapidly plunged
in succession by the lateral springs to the centre of the chamber, where they
meet, by which instantaneous action at right angles with the column of fluid
they accomplish its atomical displacement as the piston rushes up the chamber;
keeping at the same time the film of water or fluid up to and pressing with
hydrostatic power against the base of the piston. During this motion the
revolving barrel wheels are collapsing the springs in succession, or, if required,
closing the slides and the springs opening them; this can be done with levers,
as in Plate second, Figs. 3 & 4, a, a, a, a, if preferred. With two such
hydrostatic valvular chambers the motion would be alternated, united to one
axle by cranks. These chambers may be made in a circle-cylindrical form,
with square or round sides, and placed vertically as the hemisphere or hori-
zontally. The piston, which is a curved cone, its apex being the point, in
advancing when in motion, is attached to an endless slit valve wheel, as c, c, c, c,
inserted into and through the inner or concave side of the square cylinder,
with spokes from the slit valve wheel extending to an axle in the centre of
the circle opposite the spoke, abreast of which the curved conical formed piston
head is attached, and through the slit valve wheel at the same point passes
the hydrostatic tube, opening into the cylinder at the base of the cone; the
juxta hydrostatic valvular plates enter at each side as in the hemisphere
bydrostatic valve, which is a segment of a circle, vide Fige 9, with spiral or
flat springs to close the valves when opened by the rotatory progress of the
curved conical piston, which rotatory motion is conveyed by the spokes to the

page_text: axle. The hydrostatic tube rises to any convenient height from the apperture
in the spoke, and a small recevoir and piston, weighted at its summit, on
being filled with water the conical piston yields to the hydrostatic pressure
against its base, the valves rapidly closing as the piston proceeds in its rotatory
action, and thus power and speed are gainéd.. The effect of the hydrostatic
valve attached to the hemisphere is the same, for as. the air and water cases
proceed after having got within the outer valve plate O, the hydrostatic
pressure is conveyed by the tube extending from the summit of the hemisphere
to the inside valve plate, and through a small channel or duct in the plates
to the film of water behind and underneath the cases, in close contact with
which it is kept, till the cases pass through the juxta hydrostatic valve
chamber; but as this extra power imparts only an intermitting impulse to the
engine, in order to regulate and render uniform this additional power, I attach
two juxta hydrostatic valvular chambers in a vertical position as shown in
Figs. 5 & 6, to the main axle by cranks. The equilibrium pump extending
from the engine well G, W, to the summit of the hemisphere, worked by an
excentric on the axle, returns any waste water into the hemisphere if required.
On the hemisphere being filled with water or any other liquid or fluid, as also.
the tube or tubes, the antagonising laws of buoyancy and gravity are at once.
placed in motion in their opposite elements of water and air, by the action of
which a continual self-acting, self-sustaining, rotatory power is created; the
lower or ingress transmission juxta hydrostatic valve by a lateral progressive
atomical displacement of water, keeping a thin film or stratum of that
element in close contact with and under the air and water cases, while pass-
ing through the juxta consecutive valve, and by this operation through the
action of the aforesaid tube and piston, extending from the lower to the uper
part of the hemisphere, exercising under hydrostatic pressure thus caused
an additional rotatory power and velocity. I attach any weight to or in each
air or water case or cases, which it or they are capable of buoying up, or
being counterpoised by the gravitating weights in the open air or in vacuum,
in order to acquire more power by the laws of gravity or attraction; I use
water or any other fluids or liquids, or gasses or solids, or any admixture of
them, in the creation of a continual self-acting new motive power, self-sustain-
ing, except as regards the wear and tear of materials, and the occasional
supply, if required, of the elements or parts of the elements I use. I claim
the combination by the aforesaid mechanical agency, or by any modification of
it, and by the application of all or any of the first five foregoing herein
mentioned natural laws as the basis of my Invention or discovery, as creating
by means of mechanical contrivances, or an engine, and by the employnient of

page_text: the before herein described juxta consecutive hydrostatic valvular chamber,
or valves of its or their description, accomplishing atomic displacement of
liquids or fluids, the exclusive priviliges and priority of having invented a
means of acquiring a new motive power comprising speed also.
This is the nature of the mechanical agencies I have described in the
foregoing innumeration of the principles or natural laws upon which my
discovery is based; to those mechanical agencies herein described, and to any
particular dimensions or material, metallic or otherwise, I do not confine my
discovery and Invention, the principles being natural laws; and I being the
first and only person to shew and ascertain and prove how those natural laws
could be applied to power and speed by an engine invented by me, and these
principles thus applied being correct; the variety of mere mechanical modi-
fications I do not confine myself to, but claim the principle as broadly applied
by any similar mechanical agencies.
In witness whereof, I, the said Adderley Willcocks Sleigh, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twentyeth day of July, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four.
(L.S.) ADDERLEY WILLCOCKS SLEIGH.