IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTAL AND PORTABLE FOUNTAINS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Augustin Julien Michel Ramar, of 49, Broad Street,
Golden Square, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTAL AND
PORTABLE FOUNTAINS."
Sealed the 15th June 1858, and dated the 31st December 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Augustin Julien Michel
Ramar at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition;
on the 31st December 1857.
I, AUGUSTIN JULIEN MICHEL RAMAR, of 49; Broad Street, Golden Square,
do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNA-
MENTAL AND PORTABLE FOUNTAINS, to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in ornamental and portable
fountains. For these purposes it is preferred that the vessel to contain the
apparatus and the water should be formed into a pedestal below the basin of
the fountain, but this is not essential; a double-acting force pump is fixed
within the vessel, and it is preferred that the piston should be constructed with
two cups of gutta percha, or it may be of other suitable flexible material. At
one end of the pump barrel is fixed an air-pipe, the upper end of which enters
into an inner vessel, and in such manner that the upper end or outlet of the
air-pipe comes just below the top or cover of the inner vessel. The inner
vessel is above the level of the water in the outer vessel, and it has a descend-
ing tube, the lower end of which comes to near the bottom of the outer vessel,
where there is a valve, through which the water and air can pass from the inner.
vessel into the outer vessel. At the other end of the pump is another air-
pipe, which rises to a position above the water level in the outer vessel. In
order to supply water, or it may be other fluid, suitable for a fountain, into the

page_text: outer vessel, there is a pipe or tube descending from near the bottom of the
basin into the inner vessel, where there is a valve opening out from the lower
end of the pipe; hence, when the pump is put to work it will, according as
there is or is not water in the basin, draw water or air through such pipe into
the inner vessel, which in the return stroke of the piston will be forced through
the end of the pipe or tube, which descends from the inner. vessel from such
vessel into the outer vessel. In order to raise the water out of the outer vessel
and above the bottom of the open basin, a pipe (the lower end of which is near
the bottom of the outer vessel) rises through the bottom of the basin, and the
upper end of such pipe is formed with a stop-cock, and suitable for receiving
and having fixed thereon jet pipes or other devices, according to the form
of fountain intended to be produced.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters. Patent
and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Augustin Julien
Michael Ramar in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th July 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AUGUSTIN
JULIEN MICHAEL RAMAR, of 49, Broad Street, Golden Square, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her.
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Augustin Julien Michael Ramar, Her special licence, that I, the said
. Augustin Julien Michael Ramar, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Augustin Julien Michael Ramar, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and. no. others,
from time to time and at all times thereaftei 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 ORNAMENTAL AND PORTABLE. FOUN-
TAINS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Augustin Julien
Michael Ramer, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly 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 immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
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page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Augustin Julien Michael Ramar, 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 thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in ornamental and portable
fountains. For these purposes it is preferred that the vessel to contain the
apparatus and the water should be formed into a pedestal below the basin of
the fountain, but this is not essential; a double-acting force-pump is fixed
within the vessel, and it is preferred that the piston should be constructed
with two cups of gutta percha, or it may be of other suitable flexible material.
At one end of the pump barrel is fixed an air pipe, the upper end of which
enters into an inner vessel, and in such manner that the upper end or outlet
of the air pipe comes just below the top or cover of the inner vessel. The
inner vessel is above, the level of the water in the outer vessel, and it has a
descending tube, the lower end of which comes to near the bottom of the
outer vessel, where there is a valve through which the water and air can pass
from the inner vessel into the outer vessel. At the other end of the pump. is
another air pipe, which rises to a position above the water level in the outer
vessel. In order to supply water, or it may be other fluid, suitable for a
fountain, into the outer vessel, there is a pipe or tube descending from near
the bottom of the basin into the inner vessel, where there is a valve opening
out from the lower end of the pipe; hence, when the pump is put to work, it
will, according as there is or is not water in the basin, draw water or air
through such pipe into the inner vessel, which in the return stroke of the
piston will be forced through the end of the pipe or tube which descends from
the inner vessel, and from such vessel into the outer vessel. In order to raise
the water out of the outer vessel and above the bottom of the open basin, a
pipe (the lower end of which is near the bottom of the outer vessel) rises
through the bottom of the basin, and the upper end of such pipe is formed
with a stop-cock, and suitable for receiving and having fixed thereon jet pipes
or other devices, according to the form of fountain intended to be produced.
Having thus stated the nature of the said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same. :
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
a is the basin or upper open vessel into which when in use the water from
the jet or jets falls, and from which it is transferred to the interior of the
vessel b, b, which in the arrangement shewn constitutes the pedestal which
carries the basin a at its top, but the form of the vessels and their relative

page_text: positions may be greatly varied; c is a pump, having a piston d, composed of
two cups d', d',, which are fixed back to back as shewn; d is the piston rod
by which the piston is actuated; e is a pipe fixed at one end of the pump, its
upper and open end rising nearly to the top or cover of the vessel f. The
vesself is closed on all sides, and at the top it has a descending pipe f¹,
which has at its lower end a valve which opens outwards when the pressure
interior of the vessel f is greater than the pressure in the interior of the
vessel b. At the other end of the pump is fixed the pipe f, the upper end of
which is open and above the water level in the vessel b. The vessel b is
supplied with water and air through the pipe 9, which descends from near
the bottom of the basin into the vessel f, and it has a valve at its lower end
which opens outwards from the pipe into the vessel f, hence, when air is drawn
from the vesself through the pipe e into the pump, water or air will flow
through the pipe g into the vessel f, according as the upper end of the pipe g
is or is not covered with water; h is a pipe, the lower end of which is open.
and near the bottom of the vessel b. On the upper end of the pipe h is fixed.
any desired nozzle for producing the desired jet or jets which are to constitute
the fountain; i is a stop-cock, by which the flow of water is stopped or
regulated.
The form and arrangement of the several parts above described may be
varied. The several parts may be made of sheet zinc or other suitable
material. The peculiarity of the Invention is in respect to the arrangement.
or combination of the parts described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Augustin Julien Michael Ramar, have:
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
GEO. PITT.
J. RAMAR. (L.S.)