A NEW AND IM- PROVED MOTIVE POWER
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, in the Empire
of France, and 10, Sackville Street, Piccadilly, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "A NEW AND IM-
PROVED MOTIVE POWER." -A communication from Jean Clunet,
residing at Lyons, France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 2nd July 1869.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent
Offices, 18, Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 10,
Sackville Street, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW AND

page_text: IMPROVED MOTIVE POWER," a communication from Jean Clunet, a person
resident at Lyons, France, to be as follows:-
The Invention communicated to me relates to a new and improved
motive power operating without noise and without expense. It consists
in giving a rotary motion to a wheel, which is destined to transfer by the
ordinary means the power obtained by the employment of any even
smooth blocks of stone, petrified mortar, iron cast or wrought, or other
heavy materials, in the form of cubes preferred, and of which the number
and volume are governed by the amount of power desired, and causing
them to descend in the ordinary atmospheric air, but to ascend in a
liquid whose density is equal to their density, by which means their
weight is annulled. For this purpose these blocks when descending
are hung to hooks fixed to an endless chain turning upon the wheel
receiving the motive power, which is of a shape of a hexagon and placed
on the top of a suitable framework, and upon another wheel of the shape
of a square, which is placed at the bottom of said framework, and
partially in a receptacle or tank of water or any other liquid. When
these blocks have arrived at the lower portion of their course they detach
themselves from the hooks from which hitherto they hung attached to
the chain, which latter continues its ascending and rotary motion, and
the said blocks descend and re-ascend within the tank confined to their
place and guided by an endless band and conducting wires stretched from
supports for that purpose fixed on the top and bottom of the framework;
they now being thus guided and following one upon another find their
way into another species of tank placed vertically, likewise filled with a
liquid similar to that in the first-mentioned tank, and when arrived at
the top of this second tank they tilt and slide along upon a horizontal
shelf of rollers until they reach the hexagon-shaped wheel and the endless
chain, when they recommence their descent. In order to prevent the
liquid from running or descending from the second tank into the first,
the blocks enter from one tank to the other between rollers and grooved
pulleys pressed against the blocks by springs so as to shut off all way to
the water. The detaching the blocks from the endless chain takes place
of itself, so to speak, from the positions they find themselves in, in
consequence of the rotary movement and of the turning over of the
said chain upon the lower wheel in the shape of a square. The endless
band receives a combined descending and rising motion from the weight

page_text: of the blocks, which give every motion that the apparatus possesses, and
which motion would be perpetual if upon the axe of the hexagon-shaped
wheel transmitting the force obtained to the machinery by means of a
driving pulley keyed to one of its ends, there were not keyed to the
other end a break wheel with a hand crank, by means of which the
movement may be stopped or modified.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent.
Office on the 29th December 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18,
Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 10, Sackville
Street, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, Her special licence
that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and all times thereafter 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 "A NEW AND IM-
PROVED MOTIVE POWER," a communication from Jean Clunet, a person
resident at Lyons, France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, 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

page_text: Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
şame
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
The Invention communicated to me relates to a new and improved
motive power operating without noise and without expense. It consists
in giving a rotary motion to a wheel, which is destined to transfer by
the ordinary means the power obtained by the employment of any even
smooth blocks of stone, petrified mortar, iron cast or wrought, or other
heavy materials, in the form of cubes preferred, and of which the number
and volume are governed by the amount of power desired, and causing
them to descend in the ordinary atmospheric air, but to ascend in a
liquid whose density is equal to their density, by which means their
weight is annulled. For this purpose these blocks when descending
are hung to hooks fixed to an endless chain turning upon the wheel
receiving the motive power, which is of a shape of a hexagon and placed
on the top of a suitable framework, and upon another wheel of the shape
of a square, which is placed at the bottom of said framework, and
partially in a receptacle or tank of water or any other liquid. When
these blocks have arrived at the lower portion of their course they detach
themselves from the hooks from which hitherto they hung attached to
the chain, which latter continues its ascending and rotary motion, and
the said blocks descend and reascend within the tank, confined to their
place and guided by an endless band and conducting wires stretched
from supports for that purpose fixed on the top and bottom of the
framework. They now being thus guided and following one upon
another find their way into another specie of tank placed vertically, like-
wise filled with a liquid similar to that in the first mentioned tank, and
when arrived at the top of this second tank they tilt and slide along
úpon a horizontal shelf of rollers until they reach the hexagon-shaped
wheel and the endless chain, when they recommence their descent.
In order to prevent the liquid from running or descending from the
second tank into the first, the blocks enter from one tank to the other
between rollers and grooved pulleys pressed against the blocks by springs

page_text: so as to shut off all way to the water. The detaching of the blocks
from the endless chain takes place of itself, so to speak, from the
position they find themselves in, in consequence of the rotary move-
ment and of the turning over of the said chain upon the lower wheel in
the shape of a square. The endless band receives a continuous
descending and rising motion from the weight of the blocks which
give every motion that the apparatus possesses, and which motion would
be perpetual if upon the axe of the hexagon-shaped wheel transmitting
the force obtained to the machinery by means of a driving pulley keyed
to one of its ends, there were not keyed to the other end a break wheel
with a hand crank, by means of which the movement may be stopped
or modified. Instead of two receptacles it would perhaps often be
better to have but one, the rollers and grooved pulleys already alluded
to being placed at the entrance of the single tank instead of the second,
the blocks acting in the same manner.
Having thus briefly stated the nature of the said Invention I will.
proceed to describe it more fully, having reference to the Drawings
annexed hereunto, in which the application of the simple receptacle
is represented.
In these Drawings, Fig. 1 is a side section in clevation of the whole
apparatus; Fig. 2 is a front view in elevation of the break applied to
the hexagon-shaped wheel; Fig. 3 is a front view of a roller at the
top of the tank on which the blocks tilt; Fig. 4 is a front view in
clevation of the hexagon-shaped wheel with parts of the endless chain,
the pulley, and break; Fig. 5 is a front view of the square wheel with
parts of the endless chain; Fig. 6 represents a front view of a part
of the endless chain; and Fig. 7 is a plan or top view of a plate closing
the receptacle with the rollers and the angle pieces.
A represents the blocks; B is the hexagon-shaped wheel; C is the
endless chain which remains attached to the said wheel by means of its
pointed hooks, which successively enter similar recesses made in the cir-
cumference of the wheel, the other end of said hooks being square, serving
to keep the blocks in their place while descending in conjunction with
the conducting wires D, placed two in front and two behind each block,
and one at each side; E is the receptacle; F is the square wheel from
which the chain C at the bottom of its course is detached to reascend

page_text: round the wheel B; G is the rollers, of which there are four, made of
india-rubber or other elastic material placed at the entrance of the
receptacle E; and H is the india-rubber or other suitable angle pieces
also placed at the entrance, between which rollers G and angle pieces H
pass with slight friction the said blocks after being disengaged from
the chain C. These blocks A, angle pieces H, and rollers G being in
close contact form a permanent stoppage, so that the water cannot
issue, and said blocks when in the receptacle are placed in the middle of
the same, where they are kept in equilibrium by the water and are
pushed and moved forward by the blocks which descend after them.
I is the endless band, resting on supports J fixed to the inside of the
receptacle supporting the blocks and moving with them. The blocks
when in the vertical part of the receptacle are conducted by four wires,
one on each of their four sides. K is a roller upon which tilt the blocks
guided by the endless band when on the top of the receptacle to leave
the same; L, friction rollers on which fall and roll the blocks after
having tilted in order to reach the hexagon wheel B; M & N are
the two pulleys on each side of the hexagon-shaped wheel, the one M
for applying the break and N for transmitting the power obtained to
other machinery. The equality in the density of the liquid and the
blocks is obtained by hollowing the blocks so that they may easily riso
The desired result is
to the top of the receptacle when therein.
obtained by the use of any other liquid, the volume of the blocks
being proportionate to their density, also the weight of the blocks
may be more or less than that of the liquid, but equality in weight is
preferable.
Having thus fully described the said Invention, and the manner in
which it is to be performed, I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise details herein described and represented
in the Drawings; but what I claim and desire to secure by the said
Letters Patent is,-
1st. The application for the purpose of obtaining a continuous motive
power of the principle of counterbalancing the weight of heavy materials
rising in a receptacle, after descending in the atmospheric air by
operating their passage through said receptacle in a liquid whose density
is more or less than an equivalent to the weight of said blocks, as has
been described and shewn in the Drawings.

page_text: 2nd. The rollers G and angle pieces H, as and for the purposes
described and shewn in the Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have
hereto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.S.)