Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Jan., 1887.
Complete Left, 27th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 27th Sept., 1887.
I CHARLES CAMPBELL WORTHINGTON, of Irvington, in the State of New York,
United States of America, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows :—
The object of the present invention is to provide means for working steam pumping
engines especially of the type known as the Worthington Steam Pumps, by manual
labour on occasion arising, or to meet requirements of those in authority; so that in
case of derangement of the steam power the manual labour of (say) the ship may be
brought into use to work the pumps and further that the bringing into employment
of such manual labour may be effected simply immediately and effectually with the
minimum amount of removeable parts severable from the pumping apparatus and
therefore liable to be mislaid.
For this purpose levers are employed and these are applied by inserting their ends
into a fulcrum which serves for say two levers, said fulcrum being capable of
oscillation on a fixed standard or part of the framing and the power is applied to the
piston rods by means of part ball shaped or rounded enlargements on the levers being
engaged in correspondingly shaped sockets formed on the piston rods, whilst the other
ends of the levers are grasped by the men and oscillated cross bars being used as
needed.
Or instead of one fulcrum socket for two levers-one lever to each piston rod two
fulcra may be employed with advantage having regard to the facility thus afforded
for arranging the centre of each fulcrum socket arin upon which socket and lever
rock, in a line with the centre of the ball or enlargement of the part engaging the
socket of piston when midway of its stroke. By forming the sockets for the levers
at the ends of short centred levers carrying the balled or rounded parts facility is
afforded for the use of simple levers for applying power of the crew or others, of such
ordinary kind as handspikes and the short fulcrum ends of special make may non-
detachably be shifted and locked free of engagement of the ball and socket or knuckle
joint parts when steam is in use.

page_text: Or a single rotatory or oscillatory fulcrum may be employed consisting of a shaft
carried by a fixed part of the framing having at one end arms provided with knuckle,
part ball or rounded ends adapted to engage socket parts on the piston rods, and on
the other end this axis is provided with a somewhat long bearing into which a double
lever may be inserted and secured at its middle by set screw-the mid portion about
the bearing being somewhat thicker.
To put the manual labour utilizing parts into position for use in this latter case, the
short shaft is moved in its bearing until the arms carrying the knuckling ends engage
their sockets and then a pin inserted through the journal into a locking recess in the
shaft will hold the parts engaged.
To put the manual labour utilizing parts free of the piston rods all that is necessary
is to withdraw this locking pin move the shaft laterally freeing the knuckling ends of
the arms from the piston rod sockets and by reinserting the locking pin through the
journal into a hole fitting it in the shaft it may be locked steady and on releasing the
set screw the lever inay be withdrawn and stowed conveniently.
In carrying out the invention parts of the arrangements before mentioned may be
interchanged or varied and the invention may be applied to various arrangements
of pumps of the character indicated.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pumping Machinery.
I CHARLES CAMPBELL WORTHINGTON of Irvington in the State of New York,
United States of America, Engineer 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 :-
The object of the present invention is to provide means for working steam pumping
engines especially of the type known as the Worthington Steam Pumps, by manual
labor on occasion arising, or to meet requirements of those in authority; so that in
case of derangement of the steam power the manual labor of (say) the ship may be
brought into use to work the pumps and further that the bringing into employment
of such manual labor may be effected simply immediately and effectually with the
minimum amount of removeable parts severable from the pumping apparatus and
therefore liable to be mislaid.
For this purpose levers are employed and these are applied by inserting their ends
into a fulcrum which serves for say two levers, said fulcrum being capable of oscillation
on a fixed standard or part of the framing and the power is applied to the piston rods
by means of part ball shaped or rounded enlargements on the levers being engaged
in correspondingly shaped sockets formed on the piston rods, whilst the other ends
of the levers are grasped by the men and oscillated, cross bars being used, as needed.
Or instead of one fulcrum socket for two levers-one lever to each piston rod two
fulcra may be employed with advantage having regard to the facility thus afforded
for arranging the centre of each fulcrumm socket arm upon which socket and lever
rock, in a line with the centre of the ball or enlargement of the part engaging the
socket of piston when midway of its stroke. By forming the sockets for the levers
at the ends of short centred levers carrying the balled or rounded parts facility is
afforded for the use of simple levers for applying power of the crew or others, of such
ordinary kind as handspikes and the short fulcrum ends of special make may non-
detachably be shifted and locked free of engagement of the ball and socket or knuckle
joint parts when steam is in use.
Or a single rotatory or oscillatory fulcrum may be employed consisting of a shaft
carried by a fixed part of the framing having at one end arms provided with knuckle,
part ball or rounded ends adapted to engage socket parts on the piston rods, and on
the other end this axis is provided with a somewhat long bearing into which a double
lever may be inserted and secured at its middle by set screw-the mid portion about
the bearing being somewhat thicker.
To put the manual labor utilizing parts into position for use in this latter case, the
short shaft is moved in its bearing until the arms carrying the knuckling ends engage
their sockets and then a pin inserted through the journal into a locking recess in the
shaft will hold the parts engaged.
To put the manual labor utilizing parts free of the piston rods all that is necessary
is to withdraw this locking pin move the shaft laterally freeing the knuckling ends

page_text: of the arms from the piston rod sockets and by re-inserting the locking pin through
the journal into a hole fitting it in the shaft it may be locked steady and on releasing
the set screw the lever may be withdrawn and stowed conveniently.
Figure 1 shews an external front view of a Worthington pumping engine adapted
particularly for Admiralty or marine uses with the invention according to the
modification first mentioned applied to the same-one fulcrum socket to two lovers.
Figure 2 is a side view thereof.
Figure 3 is a like viow to Figure 1 so far as the engine is concerned but having
the second mentioned modification adapted viz. :-two fulcra sockets are provided one
for each of two levers.
Figure 4 is a side view of Figure 3.
Figure 5 shews a similar engine provided, according to the second mentioned
modification, with a single rotatory or oscillatory fulcrum socket consisting of a short
shaft carried by a fixed bearing part of the framing g. of the engine, said shaft 7
being provided at its end with two arms k, k and projecting therefrom at right
angles; each arm k being provided at its end with a knob, knuckle, part ball or
rounded part adapted to be engaged in a corresponding socket part 6 on each of
tho piston rods b, b. At its other end this short shaft is provided with an elongated
bearing or cross socket m into which a double ended lever i with enlarged central
diameter is inserted to midway of its length and there fixed by set screw m'.
Throughout the same letters of reference indicate like parts of the apparatus.
a, a' are the two steam cylinder exteriors, within which are the pistons connected with
the piston rods b, 6' respectively, c being the exterior of the slide valve chambers of
which c' are the slide valve rods-the connected parts being of ordinary well known
character are not shewn.
d, d are the pump chamber exteriors within which work the pistons borne by the
ends 62, 63 respectively of the piston rods b, b'. e is the steam supply inlet channel
and intake water channel. g, g' indicates the framing supporting and connecting
the parts of the pumping engine.
All the foregoing portions are adapted from the well understood type of Worthington
Pumping Engine and separately considered form no part of my present invention
which consists in providing additional and modified parts which shall enable the
pumping engine to be worked by manual labor in case of need, as already stated;
thus in Figures 1 and 2 h indicates an oscillatory socket carried in a bearing g² in the
standard g, which serves when the ends i, are inserted therein as a double fulcrum
for those two levers, the "resistances" to be overcome being connected to these levers
i, by the enlargements 2,2 thereon engaging the sockets 6, 6 formed one on each
piston rod band 6' and the power of the men being applied at the outer end thus
constituting these arms i levers of the second order.
In Figures 3 and 4, the single fulcrum piece of the foregoing example, is here
replaced by two fulera pieces h, h centred at g², g² in the standard g one above the
other and each formed in one piece with the part 2, which engages the socket formed
on each piston rod and b, and also forming part of the lever h' with a socket h² to
receive and rigidly hold a continuation thereof which may be a simple handspike or
convenient bar, when the land gear is not required the short axes are slidden within
their sockets in the direction of the arrows until the holes 1, 2 come under
slots 3, 4 through which they may be pinned out of gear as seen in dotted lines.
In Figures 5 and 6 the piston rods b, as in the previous modifications carry
sockets, one on each, which sockets each receive within them one of the rounded
ends, of the arms k, & projecting in opposite directions at right angles from the
short axis which rocks and slides in a sleeve or bearing in the standard
9, as it is
caused to move by power applied to the double ended lever or bar ii, which bar is
carried midway of its length in the elongated bearing m carried on the outer end of

page_text: the short axis l, in a plane parallel with the arms kk-the short axis thus forming
the rotating fulcrum for the lever i. This lever is shewn secured in its socket m by
a set screw m but this may be otherwise effected by equivalent well understood
devices.
In like manner if required to provide for handling by a larger number of men
than could be conveniently accommodated on a single lever bar branch levers may be
employed, adapted to be simply and quickly detachable from and applicable to the
pumping engine.
When the lever i (Figure 6) is not required for use it is simply drawn out of the
socket m after loosening tho set screw m and then the short axis is slidden a short
distance in the direction of the arrow, first raising the pin m² in its hole out of a cir-
cumferential groove formed around the axis as indicated by dotted lines and then
dropping that pin m² through its socket hole in the casing, into another hole m³ in
that axis, which when the arms k, k on that axis are turned, free of the sockets ³, b₁
into a line with the standard, will be presented coincident with the bottom of the pin
hole and the pin m² will lock the arms out of the way until again required to be
replaced in working position.
In carrying this invention into practical effect parts herein described in the various
modifications may be varied in detail or may be interchanged or well understood
equivalent parts substituted without affecting the character of the invention and the
invention may be applied to various other modified arrangements of the same character
of pumps indicated."
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
The combination or arrangement and use with steam pumping machinery of parts
adapted to facilitate the employment of manual labor for actuating such steam pumping
engines on occasion, so that the manually operated additional parts may be quickly
and simply applied and removed, in manner substantially as set forth.
Dated the 25th dor of Avant 1007
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicant.