AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR RAISING WATER AND OTHER FLUIDS
Year: 1834

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
CHILD, of Brixton, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-third day of August, in the fifth year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said George Child, His especial license, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said George Child, my exors, admors, and assigns,
or such others as 1, the said George Child, my exors, admors, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Ber-
wick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations
abroad, the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
RAISING WATER AND OTHER FLUIDS," communicated to me by a certain Foreigner
resident abroad; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I,
the said George Child, shall cause a particular description of the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Child, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and the

page_text: manner in which the same is to be carried into effect, are fully described
and ascertained in and by the following description thereof, reference being
had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon (that is to say):-
The Invention consists in the application of certain endless bands or fabrics,
which being combined with and caused to move with considerable rapidity by
means of rollers or drums, as will be hereafter fully described, water and other
fluids may be raised from one point to another with great facility.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents a side view of machinery arranged according to the
Invention; and Figure 2 represents an end view thereof; the same being
arranged within a building or shed, as is clearly shown in the Drawing. In
these Figures the same letters of reference indicate similar parts,-a being the
main or driving shaft, having a winch handle affixed thereon, in order that the
same may be caused to revolve by hand, though it will be evident that the same
may, when desired, be driven by other power. On the shaft a is aflixed the
toothed wheel b, which takes into and drives the pinion c on the shaft d, and on
this shaft d is the toothed wheel e, which wheel e takes into the pinion f on the
shaft g, and on this shaft g is affixed the drum h, and from this drum the endless
strap i proceeds to the smaller drum or pulley j on the shaft k, and on this
shaft is affixed the larger drum or pulley, from which proceeds the endless
strap or band m, which drives a pulley n affixed on the shaft o.
The position
of these shafts and their gudgeons are clearly shown in the Drawing, and will
be evident to a mechanic. On the shaft o is affixed two drums or pulleys p,
which work the endless fabrics or bands q, by which the water is raised; r is a
well or vessel containing water or other fluid which it is desired to be raised,
and in this vessel or well are placed two pullies or drums s below the fluid,
and the endless fabrics or bands q are distended on the pulleys p and s, and by
the revolution of the drums p such endless fabrics will be moved rapidly, and
carry up the fluid to the position t, t, where the water or other fluid will
separate from the fabrics q and fall into the vessel v, from which the same may
be conveyed by the pipe w to the purpose required. It will be seen that the
endless fabrics q pass through the tubes a within the vessel v, which is in
order to prevent the return of the water when it falls into the vessel.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I will shortly describe the manner of action:-
Motion being communicated by the handle on the shaft a, it will be evident
that in tracing the motion of the various wheelwork a very considerable velocity

page_text: will be communicated to the drums or pulleys p, and consequently to the end-
less fabrics q; by this means water or other fluid will be rapidly raised. And I
may here remark that the fabric I have employed is narrow woollen cloth, but
I do not confine myself to the use of that fabric, but state it as the best I am
acquainted with for the purpose. Neither do I confine myself to the precise
arrangement of wheelwork herein described, as it will be evident that other
arrangements may be used in order to obtain considerable velocity to the
pulleys p.
Having now described the nature of the Invention as communicated to me,
I would have it understood that I lay no claim to the various parts separately;
but what I claim, as the Invention secured by the above-recited Letters
Patent, is, the combining the pulleys p and s, and the endless fabrics q, with
requisite millwork or machinery for driving the same, when such combination
is employed for the raising water or other fluids, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Child, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.