A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OF ELEVATING LIQUIDS, AND MEANS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR THAT PURPOSE
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Baptiste Van Oosterwyck, of Lille, in the French
Republic, but at present at 61, Fleet Street, London, for the Invention of
"A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OF ELEVATING LIQUIDS, AND MEANS TO BE
EMPLOYED FOR THAT PURPOSE."
Sealed the 28th October 1876, and dated the 5th August 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jean Baptiste Van Ooster-
wyck at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th August
1870.
JEAN BAPTISTE VAN OOSTERWYCK, of Lille, in the French Republic, but at present
at 61, Fleet Street, London. "A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OF ELEVATING
LIQUIDS, AND MEANS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR THAT PURPOSE."
This Invention consists in a new and improved method of elevating liquids and
means to be employed for that purpose, whereby less power will be required for
elevating the said liquids than heretofore.
The following is the manner I propose to elevate water (for instance) from a
closed spring well-In the water of the said well I plunge two tubes of different
diameters, and extend them out of the well to any desired height. The water
will rise in both these tubes, and be at the same height in each of them. I now
connect the water in the largest tube with a rotory or other pump, and proceed to
pump the water out of it. This water can then be used as a power to drive any
desired known motive engine, from whence it is made to flow into the smaller
tube so as to keep the level in both tubes the same or nearly so.
The superfluous water not required to keep the level is allowed to flow away,
and may also be used as motive power.
It will thus be seen that by the above arrangement instead of requiring the
power to pump the water from the bottom of the well I bring that water by means
of the two tubes close to the pumping apparatus, and keep it at the same height by
pumping back into the sinaller tube part of the water exhausted, meanwhile using
the water pumped out as a driving power.

page_text: MODE OF OPERATION.
After having filled with water or other liquid the parts of the apparatus above
described, namely, the reservoirs 3, 10, 13, 32, and pipes 15, 22, 30, the valve 14
is opened by loosening the rope 53. The water then descends into the turbine 9,
which is put in motion. This motion can be applied by the gearing 26 to any
desired purpose.
On leaving the turbine the water falls in reservoir 3, from
whence it passes in the cage 1 of the hydraulic scale, which being released takes a
downward course, and brings up the empty cage 2. When the cage 1 arrives at
the end of its course the lug 19 presses on the lever 11, and opens the ball valves 5.
The water enters the cage 2, during which time the other cage empties itself, and
when the float 27 arrives near the bottom of the cage the cage which is full detaches
itself by means of the chains 28 and connection 20, and descends giving motion to
the pulleys 25. This motion is communicated to the cranks 38 by the connecting
rod 52 to give a rotary motion to the pulleys 35 and fly wheels 36 which transmitt
motion by the straps 34 to the pulleys 44 of the pumps 12. These pumps exhaust
the water of the reservoir 13 by the pipes 16 and the water thus clevated in the
pumps 12 is forced up by the pipes 17 in the upper reservoir 32 from whence it
descends by the pipe 31 into the turbine 9, and thence part of this water flows
into the reservoirs 3 to act again in the same manner as described as the quantity of
water elevated by the pumps 12 is never the whole of the water which puts the
cages 1 and 2 in motion.
A certain arrangment for elevating that part of the water which has not been
elevated by the pumps 12 consists in a pipe 22 which plunges in the reservoirs 13,
the water of which communicates with the reservoir 10 by the pipe 43.
The
pipe 22 being less than 30 feet fills and empties itself by the curved part owing to
the vacuum which make the water flow by the connections 47 into the pipe 31.
In this manner the water which has not been elevated by the pumps 12 is carried
away into the reservoir 32.
The means employed for facilitating the raising of the water rest, as described in
the Provisional Specification, on the communication and injection of a small quantity
of liquid raised by the pumps in the elevating pipes so as to establish (as much as
possible) the same level in each of them, and forin an equilibrium between the flowing
and elevated liquids. The pipes 15 and 33 show in the above-described Drawing the

page_text: connection between the waters. The number of these pipes may be increased and
their positions altered according to circumstances. The weight of water in the said
pipes serving to put in motion any known driving engine.
In Sheet 2 are represented several apparatuses which may be applied to this
Invention not only on account of the principles on which they are founded, but by
the details of their construction.
Figure 1 is a spiral air pump; Figure 2, a pump based on the incompressibility of
liquids; Figure 3, a water colour machine; Figure 4, a machine founded on the
principle of the Heron fountain; Figures 5 and 6, ammonia machine with liquid
piston Figure 7 automatic compressed air machine; Figure 8, Russian puinp;
Figure 9, elevating siphon; Figure 10, swaying apparatus which may be placed in
any position; Figure 11, apparatus for obtaining heat mechanically; Figure 12, appa-
ratus for the use of chemical and explosive agents; Figure 13, apparatus for encreasing
pressure; Figure 14, apparatus for transmitting forces with or without ammonia
and with or without liquid. The principle and different method of construction
of the apparatuses shown in the second Sheet of Drawings are sufficiently known
to require special description, but I claim the right of applying them in order to
arrive at the desired object, that is to say, to elevate liquids by any suitable known
means to obtain an independent force by using the same liquid over again, and only
to replacing that which may be lost by evaporation or other similar causes.
The nature of this Invention shows the means of elevating liquids by the com-
bination of known laws, such as equilibrium of fluids, equality of pressure, floting
bodies, flow of liquids, and mechanical, physical, chemical means applicable to
hydraulatic appliances such as pumps, rams, injectors of all kinds hydraulic press
which may be put in motion by an hydraulic, air, steam, or other motive engine.
Having now described and set forth the nature and object of my Invention for
"A New and Improved Method of Elevating Liquids, and Means to be employed
for that Purpose,” I would remark in conclusion that I do not limit myself to the
precise details or forms of apparatus before described and represented, as these may
vary according to circumstances; but what I claim as my Invention and desire to
secure by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the new means
(obtained by existing natural laws and apparatuses) of elevating always at least
the whole of the liquid which has served to produce the power whereby the said
liquid has been clevated, and at the same time producing a power or a result
independent of the power which has served to elevate it, substantially as described
and represented.
In witness whereof, I, Jean Baptiste Van Oosterwyck, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.