A NEW OR IMPROVED ENGINE FOR RAISING LIQUIDS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to André Alexandre Beaumont, of 2, Rue Sainte
Appoline, Paris, (Empire of France,) for the Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED ENGINE FOR RAISING LIQUIDS."
Sealed the 1st March 1864, and dated the 3rd September 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said André Alexandre Beaumont
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd September 1863.
I, ANDRÉ ALEXANDRE BEAUMONT, of 2, Rue Sainte Appoline, Paris (Empire
of France), do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OB
IMPROVED ENGINE FOR RAISING LIQUIDS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in the coustruction and employment of an engine
or machine for raising. liquids as follows:-Fluted, grooved, or channelled
cylinders are set on one another, and in two lines more or less distant. The
cylinders are supported by their trunnions, which rest on rollers carried by
uprights, at the same time supporting surfaces or plates partially surrounding
the fluted cylinders, the axes of which are provided with pulleys tangent to
one another in such manner that if motion is communicated to one all the
pulleys, and consequently all the fluted cylinders, receive the same motion.
Supposing the lower cylinder to dip partially in water, for example, the
motion of the fluted cylinders will draw liquid from the first cylinder to the
second, and so on until the upper-part or the liquid is carried to the desired
height, whatever that height may be.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said André Alexandre Beaumont in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 2nd March 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ANDRÉ
ALEXANDRE BEAUMONT, of 2, Rue Sainte Appoline, Paris, Empire of France,
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-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said André Alexandre Beaumont, Her special licence that I, the said André
Alexandre Beaumont, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said André Alexandre Beaumont, my 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
"A NEW OR IMPROVED ENGINE FOR RAISING LIQUIDS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said André Alexandre Beaumont, 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
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
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* NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said André Alexandre Beaumont, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and, ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say).:-
My Invention consists in the construction and employment of a new or
improved engine or machine for raising liquids as follows:-Fluted, grooved,
or channelled cylinders are set on one another, and in two lines more or less
distant apart. The cylinders are supported by their trunnions, which rest on
rollers carried by jointed supports fixed to standards or uprights and sustained
by screws, which also serve to regulate the position of the cylinders. These
standards or uprights at the same time support surfaces or plates partially
surrounding the fluted cylinders, the hollow axes of which are provided with

page_text: pulleys tangent to one another in such manner that if rotary motion is com-
municated to one, all the. pulleys, and consequently all the fluted cylinders,
receive the same motion, nevertheless the vertical cylinders of one series turn
in one direction and the cylinders of the other series turn in the contrary
direction. The grooved or fluted portion only of the lower cylinder dips into
the water or other liquid; the circular motion of the cylinders draws the liquid
from the first to the second, then to the third, and so on to the upper part,
where the liquid is carried to the height desired, whatever may be the height
of the apparatus.
The Drawings hereunto annexed illustrate the manner in which I carry my
Invention into effect.
Figure 1 is a vertical section taken through the middle of the apparatus,
and Figure 2 is a front view of the same.
It will be seen by reference to the Drawing that this arrangement of
apparatus is made with two series of grooved or fluted cylinders a, mounted on
hollow shafts b, which also carry on each side a roller c. The necks of the
shafts of the first lower cylinder rest on small rollers e, shown detached at
Figure 3. The rollers é are carried by fixed shoes. The large rollers c of the
second cylinder rest on those of the first cylinder a, and the axis of the second
cylinder as well as the others turns on small rollers, shown detached at
Figure 4, and mounted in moveable supports f. coupled by bolts to the
standards d in such manner that these supports f may be capable of yielding
to any eccentricity or deformity whatever produced by long wear and tear.
To avoid the whole weight of all the cylinders being thrown on the lower
cylinder I fix on each side on the standards & small square or angle pieces i,
and through each of which a screw.passes, serving to sustain the supports f:
and to regulate the position of each cylinder. By this means the total weight
of the upper cylinders is prevented from bearing on the lower cylinder, while
at the same time it is necessary that contact with the large rollers c be main-
tained, yet with as little weight as possible. Guards or buckets g made of, by
preference, sheet metal surround the cylinders and leave a free space for the
passage of water which is transmitted from one cylinder to another from the
lower to the upper part of the apparatus. The standards d are provided on
two sides with partitions 6 which separate the large rollers c from the grooved
or fluted cylinders a. These two partitions are intended on the one hand to
maintain the water in the interior of the apparatus, and on the other to pre-
serve the large rollers from coming in contact with the water. This arrange-
ment of the guards g is such that their base or lower part forms a reservoir,
and the circumference of each cylinder dips a little into the reservoir, so that

page_text: after each stop it is not necessary to readjust; the apparatus; besides, by this
arrangement the pressure of the atmosphere is avoided, whatever the height of
the column of water to be raised may be. The four standards d are fixed on
two cross bars m, by. preference made of wood, which form the base of the
apparatus, and which is placed in a reservoir where the water to be raised is
delivered through a gate and there maintained at one; even and constant level.
The
upper part of the apparatus terminates in a passage or channel equal to
the length of the cylinders. This apparatus can be constructed with the
cylinders of any diameter or length, as circumstances may dictate. Its appli-
cations are numerous; it can be used with advantage for raising large volumes
of water in a short space of time, in a ship for pumping, and for various other
purposes. Motion may be transmitted from the apparatus by a strap passing
round a pulley mounted on a shaft of the first or second cylinder (reckoning
from the base), but I prefer to isolate the machine and unite it to the driving
pulley by a knee or clutch, in order to obtain thereby greater regularity.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the employment
of grooved or fluted cylinders in engines, machines, or apparatus for raising
water and other liquids, constructed and acting substantially in manner herein-
before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said André Alexandre Beaumont, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-seventh day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
A. A. BEAUMONT. (L.S.)
A. A. BEAUMONT. (L.S.)