Towns and for other Purposes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Sept., 1887
Complete Left, 26th May, 1888
Complete Accepted, 15th July, 1888
Towns and for other Purposes.
1, CLARA LOUISA WELLS (Care Messrs. W. J. Turner & Co. Naples, Italy,
No. 64 Via Santa Lucia,) Spinster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows :-
Salt water, to be brought through pipes from far enough outside to be perfectly
pure, must be boiled in a steam-engine, then condensed, or distilled, and cooled, until
it becomes good drinking-water.
Then it must be pumped into water-towers erected upon consecutive altitudes, (each
connected with the preceding and subsequent ones and furnished with pumps), until
a height shall be obtained, whore a reservoir may be advantageously placed, or several,
for great distances.
Thence will take place the distribution of the distilled salt water, in pipes, according
to the usual system for the furnishing of potable water to the place desiring it, and in
open canals for purposes of irrigation, or for manufacture, as the force of the falling
water will be in proportion to the height attained.
To meet the expenses, there may be industrial uses combined with the steam-power,
or warm salt-baths or washing by steam, and there will be the salt deposited.
Dated this Twenty fourth day of Santamber ISSZ

page_text: Improvements in Obtaining Fresh from Sea-water for Supplying
Towns and for other Purposes.
CLARA LOUISA WELLS (Spinster) Care Messrs. W. J. Turner & Co. No. 64 Strada
Santa Lucia, Napoli (Naples) Italy do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Salt water, to be brought from far enough outside to be perfectly pure, must be
boiled and the steam sent up through pipes,-(either underground, or carried on
arches where the substructions are friable, or difficult to pass through, endangering
edifices already, or to be constructed),-until the desired height shall be reached
whence the distribution is to take place. (1) If this height be too great for the
steam to reach without condensing, it will be necessary, either to increase the pressure,
or even to re-boil the water in intermediate station or stations and send the steam on
again in its upward course, finally to condense or be condensed into filter-reservoirs,
whence the distribution for agricultural or potable needs may take place, or even, by
its return-power, in artificial cascades, or through descending canals or conduits, this
condensed, distilled Salt Water may serve for Manufacturing and Industrial Purposes.
(2) The Salt Water may be at once condensed or distilled and filtered, on the coast,
and sent through pumping apparatus to the necessary heights. (3) By either of these
systems, or pumping, or by re-boiling or both together, any distance from the sea
may be supplied with Salt Water distilled into Fresh, for Any or All Uses of City or
Country.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said In-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is; that,
(1). In no part of the world, previous to my obtaining the Provisional Specification,
has Salt Water Distilled or Condensed into Fresh, beon regularly distributed through
conduits, pipes or canals, for supplying towns and for other purposes.
(2). The sending of distilled Salt Water into Fresh, up to considerable heights,
where water-towers and reservoirs, provided with the most approved filters are to be
placed, in number and on altitudes corresponding to the places to be supplied, is an
entirely new Industry.

page_text: (3). So also, the sending of the Water up in the form of Steam, without the use of
pumps, to condense of itself in reservoirs well-provided with filters, or to be re-boiled
and sent to a higher position above again into upper reservoirs, for the supply of
higher situated places.
(4). Another entirely novel feature of this now Industry or Invention, is the Use of
the Return Water, to be carried through Canals, conduits or Tubes, or in the form of
artificial cascades, for any and every Manufacturing Use, as well as for Agricultural
and Cleansing Purposes in its descent from whatever height it may have previously
reached.