IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A STRONG BLAST OR CURRENT OF An
Year: 1861

page_text: IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A STRONG BLAST OR CURRENT OF
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Sealed the 25th February 1862, and dated the 3rd September 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edmund Suckow and
Edward Habel at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 3rd September 1861.
We, EDMUND SUCKOW and EDWARD HABEL. of Oldham, in the County of
Lancaster, Engineers. do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A STRONG BLAST OR
CURRENT OF AIR," to be as follows:-
We enclose the archimedean screw in a cylinder, and give it a rapid rotary
motion by which a strong blast or current of air is produced similar to an
We also apply antifriction
ordinary fan, but with a more powerful effect.
rollers to work against the prepared surface or collar of the horizontal or
vertical shafts used in such machines to receive the thrust or blow endways.
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page_text: This Invention is particularly applicable to machinery or apparatus used
for opening or cleaning fibrous materials, as cotton openers, cotton gins.
blowing machines, and similar articles. Also for exhausting and compressing
nir or gas, and producing an air blast, or for lifting and forcing water and
other fluids.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters l'atent, filed
by the said Edmund Suckow and Edward Habel in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 3rd March 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, EDMUND
SUCKOW and EDWARD LABEL, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, Engi-
neers. send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria. by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did. for Iferself. Her heirs and successors. give and grant unto us.
the said Edmund Suckow and Edward Habel. Her special licence that we. the
said Edmund Suckow and Edward label, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Edmund Suckow and Edward label,
our executors, administrators. and assigns. should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A STRONG BLAST OR CURRENT OF AIR." upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that we, the said Edmund Suckow and Edward label,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Edmund Suckow and Edward Habel,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner

page_text: the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement (that is to say):-
We enclose an archimedean screw in a cylinder, and give it a rapid rotary
motion. The screw is composed of any number of blades. which are fixed to
a conical disc, and have their outer edges revolving nearly at a right angle to
projections or catch wings fixed to or forming part of the cylinder. When
motion is given to the screw, a strong blast or current of air is produced similar
to that from an ordinary fan, but with a much more powerful effect. We also
apply antifriction rollers when desired to work against the prepared surface or
collar of the shafts in order to lessen the friction.
This Invention is particularly applicable for obtaining a strong blast or
current of air for compressing and exhausting air or gas, for lifting and forcing
water and other fluids, and also for machinery or apparatus used for opening
and cleaning fibrous materials, such as cotton openers, cotton gins, blowing
machines, and similar apparatus.
These improvements will be clearly understood by referring to the figures
and letters on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, representing various views
and detached parts of our improved application of the archimedean screw and
antifriction rollers against the ends of shafts.
Fig. 1 is a side section; Fig. 2, a side elevation; Fig. 3, a front elevation;
Fig. 4, a plan; and Fig. 5, a front view without the screw, of our arrange-
ment for producing a strong blast or current of air; Fig. 6 is a side elevation
with part in section; and Fig. 7, a plan of similar apparatus, having a pipe
in connection with it for the purpose of exhaustion; Fig. 8 is a view of the
back part of the apparatus when used as a ventilator; Fig. 9, a section of
the cylinder and catch wings only; Fig. 10, a section of the conical disc to
which the blades of the screw are attached; Fig. 11, a vertical section of
one of our improved screw pumps, in which the conical disc is fixed to a
vertical shaft, and the screw placed in the reservoir, or water, or fluid supply;
Fig. 12 is a vertical section; Fig. 13, an end view; and Fig. 14, a plan of
another of our improved screw pumps, having the shaft and conical disc
working in a horizontal position, the screw being above, and communicating
by a pipe with the supply; Fig. 15 is a side section; Fig. 16, a front view;
and Fig. 17, a plan of one of our improved arrangements of antifriction rollers
for lessening the friction at the ends of revolving shafts.
We construct the archimedean screw of any desired diameter and length,
and cause it to work in a vertical, horizontal, or angular position. The screw

page_text: is represented at a, Figs. 1. 3, 11, and 12, its blades are fixed to a conical
disc b. shewn detached in Fig. 10, and partly seen in Figs. 1 and 12. The
said disc either forms part of the spindle, or is keyed upon it as may be desired.
The screw works in the interior of a cylinder marked in the Figures, and
shewn detached in the section Fig. 9. On the inside of the cylinder towards
the exit end thereof, there are projecting ribs or catch wings d, which lessen
the friction of the screw when revolving in air, gas, or fluid, prevent the return
of the air or fluid, and cause a very powerful effect by the combination of the
screw with the centrifugal force derived from the shape of the conical disc.
At the front of the cylinder or the end at which the air or fluids enter, there
is a plate or ring shewn in section at e, Figs. 1, 11, and 12, and externally in
Figs. 2 and 4. This ring is for the purpose of lessening the opening, and prevent-
ing the back draught of air or return of Buid. The discharge pipe in the various
Figures is shewn at f, and the pulley for driving the screw at g. The spindle
of the conical disc and screw of the blast apparatus works in the cross bars h, i,
in the exhaust apparatus in the cross bar and bearing, and in the screw
pumps in the bearings m. In Figs. 6 and 7. the pipe communicating with
the chamber or locality to be exhausted is represented at a, and in Figs. 12,
13, and 14, the suction pipe is shewn at o, and the delivery pipe at p.
We now describe one of our arrangements for lessening the friction at the
ends of the revolving shafts. Into the end of the shaft we fix a piece of har-
dened steel shewn at q in the section Fig. 10, the piece of steel in contact with
the hardened end of an adjusting screw r, Figs. 1, 2, 4, 6. and 7. The end
of the shaft is slightly tapered, and fits a taper bush which can be drawn up
by the nut s, Fig. 1, when the shaft or bush is worn.
In Figs. 15, 16, and 17, we represent our arrangements of antifriction rollers
for heavy shafts. At the end of the shaft there is a collar of hardened steel
or other material, which works in contact with two larger collars or rollers u
turning loose upon a spindle c, so that as the shaft revolves, the two collars
turn in different directions, and lessen the friction.
Having now described the nature and particulars of our said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, we desire it to be under-
stood that we claim,―
First, the improvements in machinery or apparatus for obtaining a strong
blast or current of air, for compressing or exhausting air or gas, and lifting
and forcing water and other fluids.
And, secondly, the application of antifriction rollers to the ends of the

page_text: revolving shafts for the purpose of lessening friction as all such improvements,
are herein described and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said Edmund Suckow and Edward Habel,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-eighth day of
February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Edmund Suckow and
Edward Habel, in the presence of
E. J. HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
EDMUND SUCKOW. (L.S.)
EDWARD HABEL
(L.S.)