A NEW MODE OF INCREASING THE POWER OF CERTAIN MEDIA WHEN ACTED UPON BY ROTARY FANS OR OTHER SIMILAR APPARATUS
Year: 1841

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MORRIS
WEST RUTHVEN, of Rotherbam, in the County of York, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-second day of March, in the fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Morris West Ruthven, Her especial licence that I, the said Morris West
Ruthven, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Morris
West Ruthven, my exors, adiñors, 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 and Wales and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "A NEW MODE OF INCREASING THE POWER OF CERTAIN MEDIA WHEN ACTED
UPON BY ROTARY FANS OR OTHER SIMILAR APPARATUS;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said, Morris West Ruthven, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and.in what manner the same is to
be performed; and to cause the same to be enrolled in Her 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

page_text: Morris West Ruthven, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention
to consist in causing the certain media, by which I mean to include.air, gas,
and water, about to be acted upon, to pass through a series of rotary fans,
so arranged that each succeeding fan shall act upon the media which has been
previously acted upon by the next preceding fan, whether such media be gas,
air, or water. And in further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Morris West Ruthven, do hereby describe the manner in which my said
Invention is to be performed by the. following statement thereof, reference
being had to the Drawing annexed, and the figures and letters marked
thereon, similar letters being used to denote similar parts in all the Figures
wherever they occur, that is to say :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a side view. of a series of three fans, with their appropriate cases,
so arranged as so effect the object of my said Invention, which in this case I
have, for the purpose of this description, represented as applied to increase the
power of an air-blowing apparatus. A is the first air case, B being the air
induction hole. C, C, C, are the arin's of the fans, and D, D, D, the frame-
work for, the bearings of the axes of the fans. E, E, the exit channel for the
air, after having been. acted upon by the fans, and by which it passes directly
into the fans of the second air case F, there to be acted upon again by the
second set of fans, and driven through the exit channel G. of the second
air case into the fans in the third air case H, there to be again acted upon by
the third set of fans, and finally expelled as a blast at the exit cliannel I of
the third and last air case H. By this arrangement it will be seen that the
air first taken in at the induction hole B of the first air case A is the saine
that it is expelled in the form of a blast' at I, and has been acted upon succes-
sively by the three sets of fans.
Figure 2 is the plan of :Fig.
Figure 3 is a section of one of the air cases with its fans, and here is
shewn what could not be seen in the other Figures, but which is essential to
be distinctly understood, viz, that there is an inner case revolving with the
fans inside of the outer case. This inner case is in this Figure. marked K, and
colored blue, and to it the fans are fixed:
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Fig. 5 is a separate view of the inner case with its-fans, by which it will
be seen there is an opening L in the rim of the case at the front of each fan,
the fans, in fact, dividing the inner case into six-compartments, or any other
number, dependent of course on the number of fans. The air which is
received into the opening at the axis rushes from the several compartments

page_text: out of the openings L into the outer or air case, and thence through the
exit channel of the said air case into the succeeding fan case.
The parts
marked J are the driving pullies.
Figure 4 is a longitudinal section through the first air case A, showing the
form of the fans and the mode adopted in this case of fixing them to the
inner casing; it also shews the induction hole to the second fan case F, the
exit channel E being removed.
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Now whereas it is evident that no particular form of fans is involved in my
said Invention, provided only that the medium to be acted upon be conveyed
directly from one to the other of the series of fans, as herein-before described,.
and that whether the object to be obtained is a forcible jet of water or gas, or
a strong blast of air, the same principle will prevail, the apparatus being only
varied to meet the known necessity of the media employed.
And whereas I therefore claim as my Invention increasing the power of
the said media, when acted upon by rotary fans or other similar apparatus, by
causing the said media to pass directly from one set of fans, with their fan
cases as aforesaid, to another, through the whole series, as many as there may
be, each 'succeeding set of fans acting upon it in the state in which it left the
preceding set in consequence of the exit channel for the air from one set of
fans forming the induction hole for the air to the succeeding set of fans, as
shown by the Figures in the Drawing. And such my Invention being, to the
best of my knowledge and belief, entirely new, and never before used within
that part of Her said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland called England, Her said Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be my Specification of the same, and
that I do verily believe this my said Specification doth comply in all respects,
fully and without reserve or disguise, with the proviso in the said herein-before
in part recited Letters Patent contained. Wherefore I hereby claim.to main-
tain exclusive right and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Morris West Ruthven, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the
within-named Morris West Ruthven,
M. W. RUTHVEN. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of Sep-
tember, in the year of our Lord 1841, the aforesaid Morris West Ruthven
came before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged
the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and
specified, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was
stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-one.