A New or Improved Method of and Means for Dredging Harbours and Canals, and Draining Swampy Places.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 27th Feb., 190) -Accepted, 7th Apr., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Method of and Means for Dredging Harbours and
Canals, and Draining Swampy Places.
I, FERNANDO DIEZ ULZURRUN, Santona, Province of Santander, Spain, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of a new or improved method of and means for dredg-
ing harbours and canals, and draining swampy places. In carrying out my
invention I provide a pipe or passage of suitable shape so arranged so as to
enable syphonic action to take place, that is to say for the purpose of draining.
I so arrange this pipe or passage as to convey water from one point to another
through their differences of level, the syphonic action in this case being started
in any well known or convenient manner, and when this action has been started,
the flow of water would be utilised to operate a convenient form of motor, this
motive power being conveyed by any well known mechanical arrangement to
what may be termed an agitator at or about the end of the syphon, through which
the water is entering. It will be seen that the principle of the invention will
depend upon the difference of level between the liquid in the syphonic arrange-
ment. If desired I may modify my invention by providing at the end of the
tube, as when carried in a vessel, a pump or exhaust arrangement for the pur-
pose of causing a flow to take place through the tube aforesaid, this arrange-
inent being convenient for purposes of dredging.
Dated this 27th day of May 1899.
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.
A New or Improved Method of and Means for Dredging Harbours and
Canals, and Draining Swampy Places.
I, FERNANDO DIEZ ULZURRUN, Santona, Province of Santander. Spain, Manu-
facturer, 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 consists of a new or improved method of and means for dredg-
ing harbours and canals, and draining swampy places. In carrying out my
invention, I provide a pipe or passage of suitable shape so arranged so as to
enable syphonic action to take place, that is to say for the purpose of draining.
I so arrange this pipe or passage as to convey water from one point to another
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page_text: through their differences of level, the syphonic action in this case being started
in any well known or convenient manner, and when this action has been started,
the flow of water would be utilised to operate a convenient form of motor, this
motive power being conveyed by any well known mechanical arrangement to
what may be termed an agitator at or about the end of the syphon, through
which the water is entering. It will be seen that the principle of the invention
will depend upon the difference of level between the liquid in the syphonic
arrangement. If desired, I may modify my invention by providing at the end
of the tube, as when carried in a vessel, a pump or exhaust arrangement for the
purpose of causing a flow to take place through the tube aforesaid, this arrange-
ment being convenient for purposes of dredging.
For purposes of illustration, I will now refer to the annexed drawings in
which:-
Figure 1, is a sectional side elevation showing one arrangement of my
invention.
a is a pipe which is arranged for carrying out syphonic action. This pipe is
supported in any convenient manner, such as at the point b upon the support c.
This support c may be built up in any convenient way in order to provide the
necessary partition for the purpose of separation. At the end of the tube a at d,
I may if desired provide what I may call an agitator which is operated through
the medium of the driving band e driven in turn by the driving band f through
the medium of the pulley or pulleys g, this driving band f being in turn driven
through the medium of the driving band h and pulley i. The driving band h
is in connection with a suitable form of motor j which is caused to rotate
through the fall of the water occasioned by the difference of level between the
surfaces k and l.
Although I have shewn my invention as resting upon the top of the support c
it will be readily understood that any convenient and well known arrangement
might be employed in order to allow the syphonic tube to be moved from point
to point. In cases in which syphonic action could not be always relied upon,
I may employ if desired, a pump or exhaust arrangement for effecting this
purpose, and this pump may be of any convenient construction.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:―
1. A new or improved method and means for dredging harbours and canals
and draining, substantially as described and illustrated herein and for the pur-
pose set forth.
2. In draining apparatus, the employment of a movable tube or passage
carried upon a suitable support and syphonically arranged with or without a
stirring device at one end and an operating motor at the other, substantially as
described and illustrated herein and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 96th day of Wobruer 1900