Producing Force or Power by Explosions of Water or other Liquid Electrically.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 29th Dec., 1890-Accepted, 21st Feb. 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Producing Force or Power by Explosions of Water or other
Liquid Electrically.
I, LOUIS CARL HENRY MENSING, of The City Electric Light and Power
Engineering Works, 89 Worship Street, Middlesex, Electrical Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to novel means for producing a force, or power for driving
engines, for firing mines, for blasting, for naval and military uses, and for other
purposes in or to which it is applicable.
My invention consists of a casing in which water, or other liquid can be
hermetically closed. The casing has electrical wires within it and also a
resistance.
The action is as follows:
On a current of electricity being passed through the wires, the electrical heat
communicated to the resistance acts suddenly on the water in which the resistance
is in contact, and since the water is in a confined chamber, its expansion due to
the heat causes the explosion, and the weaker part of the casing to be blown away.
Thus, supposing said weaker part to be a bullet, the bullet would be forced out
of the gun barrel at a velocity due to the intensity of current passed into and
through the resistance.
In like manner, the piston in a cylinder could be forced along.
CL
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Louis Carl Henry Mensing.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Producing Force or Power by Explosions of Water or other
Liquid Electrically.
I, LOUIS CARL HENRY MENSING, of The City Electric Light and Power
Engineering Works, 89 Worship Street, Middlesex, Electrical 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 :-
This invention relates to novel means for producing a force or power for driving
engines for firing mines, for blasting, for naval, and military uses, and for other
purposes, in or to which it is applicable.
My invention consists of a casing in which water, or other liquid can be
hermetically closed. The casing has electrical wires within it and also
resistance.
The action is as follows:-
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On a current of electricity being passed through the wires, the electrical heat
communicated to the resistance acts suddenly on the water in which the resistance
is in contact, and since the water is in a confined chamber, its expansion due to the
heat causes the explosion, and the weaker part of the casing to be blown away.
Thus, supposing said weaker part to be a bullet, the bullet would be forced out
of the gun barrel at a velocity due to the intensity of current passed into and
through the resistance.
In like manner, the piston in a cylinder could be forced along.

page_text: Three examples of the application of my invention are shown in the annexed
drawings.
Figure 1 shows an engine of the beam type with cylinder A, piston B, beam C,
and crank D. E is a tank for supply of liquid by pipe F to semi-spherical hole in
bottom of a cylinder. The piston rod G has two conducting wires connected at
bottom with a resistance coil, the other ends being within range of pole plates
when the piston is at the bottom of its travel for completing electric circuit from
the battery H.
I is an exhaust aperture and the space above serves to cushion the air as a buffer
against shocks. The tap is of such kind that a given quantity of liquid is
furnished for each propulsive charge.
Figure 2 represents a blasting cartridge A of metal with a semi-spherical, or it
may be another shape of hole in it and a corresponding one in the screw plug K,
through which the circuit wires are led and have the resistance coil attached and
within the liquid in the hole. The outer ends of the conducting wires can be
readily affixed to battery wires, so that when the exploder is inserted into a tamped
hole or a fissure of rock or hard substance a switch on by any ordinary method will
cause the effect desired.
Figure 3 shows the invention applied to a long shot or bullet enclosed in a
cartridge shell L which after the exploder agent has forced the shot out, is left
behind to be extracted from the breech of the gun by ordinary appliances. The
electrical wires are passed through the base M of the shell.
Having, now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what I
claim is
1. As a novel method of producing a force or power industrially, the use of a
liquid in an hermetically closed chamber and in a confined state acted on electrically
for explosion, as described.
2. The employment of power producing agency (liquid and electrical current)
as described for operating a piston of an engine, substantially as described with
reference to Figure 1 of the annexed drawings.
3. The use of liquid and electrical current within a casing capable of fracture,
as a means for blasting rock and other hard substances, as set forth with reference
to Figure 2 of the annexed drawings.
4. The use and application of electrical resistance in liquid in a confined chamber
between a shot and its casing as means for propelling said shot or bullet on the
electric circuit being completed as described substantially with reference to
Figure 3 of the annexed drawings.
C
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Louis Carl Henry Mensing,
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Louis Carl Henry Mensing,