IMPROVEMENTS IN HYDRAULIC ENGINES FOR- RAISING WATER, AND FOR OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER
Year: 1873

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Edward Newton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
20th May 1873.-A communication from abroad by Thomas Piatti
and Charles De Mutrécy, both of Paris, in the Republic of France..
I, HENRY EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HYDRAULIC ENGINES FOR-
RAISING WATER, AND FOR OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER," to be as follows:-
The machine which forms the subject of the present Invention is
composed of three principal parts, which are to a certain extent in-
dependent of each other, but act in combination.
The first part of the machine may be described as an artificial spring
of water, and is intended to raise and project the water with great force.
It consists of a vertical shaft which rests in a step, and is supported at
its upper end by a suitable bearing. Upon this shaft are secured by
means of a horizontal cross piece several concentric cones, which are
connected together by means of diaphragms arranged in spiral or helical
coils. The innermost cone serves as a casing to a solid cone made of

page_text: lead or other heavy metal, fixed on the lower end of the vertical shaft.
This conical block acts as a kind of governor or fly wheel for keeping the
speed uniform, and is provided on its surface with three rings or rows of
projecting oblique pallets, arranged in five vertical rows so as to form
the angles of a pentagon. All these parts are enclosed in a reservoir
from which the water is to be raised.
Oblong holes are made in the lower parts of the cones to allow the
water (which is thrown off by the pallets of the central cone) to pass
through, and rise in the internal spaces between the cones, and pass up
the inclined diaphragms and be discharged above into a channel which
forms a portion of the second part of the machine. It is composed of a
circular or annular receptacle consisting of water passages arranged in a
helical manner, or in the form of a screw with suitable openings to
receive the water as it is delivered by the rotating cones. These helical
channels are continued upwards and forms a hollow cylinder, which
encloses the central vertical shaft. This cylinder rests upon or is pro-
vided with a series of antifriction rollers which run on horizontal rails.
These two parts of the machine have a very rapid rotary motion imparted
to them in opposite directions, so that when the water is thrown out by
the rapidly rotating cones, it passes into the helical water channels up
which it is obliged to rise by the pressure from behind. These parts are
rotated by means of toothed gearing actuated by a crank or other
equivalent device, or they may be driven by ropes or bands passed round
suitable pullies.
The water as it ascends the helical passages of the rotating cylinder
preserves its velocity, and is thrown with great force in a horizontal
direction against the internal buckets of a horizontal water wheel or
turbine, to which rotary motion will be thereby communicated. This is
the third part of the machine. The water which falls from this wheel
may be conveyed to a turbine or to another water wheel which it will
drive and will thus serve to impart motion to the rotating cones and
hollow cylinder.