for Raising Water and other Purposes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 20th May, 1887.
Specification Accepted, 21st June, 1887.
for Raising Water and other Purposes.
I, CHARLES TELLIER, of No. 20, Rue Felicien David, Paris, in the Republic of
France, Civil Engineer, 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:-
I have described in the Specification of my former Letters Patent of the
8th August 1885, No. 9474 an apparatus in which I utilized the pressure of vapours
produced by the action of atmospheric or solar heat for raising water directly by the
displacement of a flexible diaphragm provided with a float. I have shewn the con-
struction of thin receivers or boilers constructed of double calorific plates for trans-
mitting heat to the easily vaporisable solutions which they contain. I also described
how I produced a continuous movement by automatically forcing into the receivers or
double plates the condensed vapours after they had produced their useful effect.
The present invention relates to further improvements more particularly to the
construction of a motor or apparatus capable of producing utilizable power not only
for raising water but for other purposes.
As heretofore I employ double plates connected together by bolts or rivets but I
dispense with the stays or cross-pieces and connect the two plates one to the other by
means of rivets distributed over the whole surface. When the plates are thus con-
nected water is injected between the two plates by means of a hydraulic press so as to
obtain swellings and depressions (such as those produced in a chair or couch by the
buttons which secure the stuffing in the seat thereof) forming interior spaces in which
the liquid to be vaporized is subjected to the action of heat. The swellings and
depressions can be also obtained by first corrugating the plates. My object is not only
to utilize the effect of solar rays but also atmospheric heat.
In order to completely utilize this atmospheric heat which is very considerable in
hot climates the calorific plates instead of being placed directly on a roof can be
placed at a distance therefrom of a few centimetres so as to constantly receive the

page_text: aerial currents. In order to assist the action of the calorific rays glazed frames can
be arranged at a distance of a few centimetres above the plates and parallel with them
or inclined in various ways according to requirements.
In cold countries the underside of the plates can be separated from the roof and
isolated therefrom so as to preserve the calorific action received on the upper side of
-the plates exposed to the solar rays.
The drawings annexed represent the modifications of the apparatus described in the
Specification of my said Letters Patent of the 8th August 1885.
In order to enable the improvements to be fully understood 1 will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying drawing in which figure 1 is an elevation
of a motor or apparatus constructed according to the present improvements, and
figure 2 is a transverse section of the same. With regard to the latter figure the
pump instead of being shewn placed at the lower part of the motor with its axis
forming a continuation of the rod E has for the sake of convenience been placed at
the side, see figure 2 bis. Figure 3 is a plan of the improved motor or apparatus for
utilizing the pressure of the vapours produced from liquids which are easily vaporisable
such as Chloroform, ether, petroleum, sulphuric ether, solutions of ammonia, &c. &c.
Figure 4 is a transverse section and figure 5 is a longitudinal section of a modification
of my apparatus specially intended for utilizing ammoniacal vapours.
In figures 1, 2, and 3, AA is a motor cylinder in which works a piston B which by
means of a slide valve C receives the vapour coming from the plates and which is
brought through a tube a, and actuates the piston B. By means of a crank shaft D D,
a crank F, and a rod EEE, the pump G (shewn in figure 2 bis), is operated and
draws up water from the well and forces it through the pipe H. This pipe does not
force out the water directly but causes it to pass into a tank or receiver J, J, J, J,
containing a coil of pipes, which coil is constantly subjected to the refrigerating action
of the water coming from the well and it is in this coil that the vapours which have
been used in the cylinder A A are condensed. A plunger pump I, operated by a pro-
longation of the piston rod of the cylinder AA constantly raises the liquid thus
condensed and passes it to the plates where evaporation again takes place.
The water which has traversed the receiver J, J, J, J, is finally discharged through
the tube M M, figure 1, directly onto the soil or it can be raised by the said pipe into
a tank whence it can be distributed according to requirement.
The construction of the improved apparatus is very simple and water can be thereby
raised from any depth by sufficiently lengthening the rod E E E E.
A counterweight cast on the flywheel of the apparatus balances the weight of the
rod thus lengthened.
Figures 4 and 5 represent the apparatus adapted more especially for the employment
of ammoniacal vapours, the receiver J, J, J, J, being the same as that used with the
preceding arrangement. The apparatus is also provided with a pump I as hereinbefore
described. A series of parallel tubes L L are employed instead of the coil, and a
balanced float arrangement M', M³, M², is also employed which allows the ammoniacal
solution acting in the plates exposed to the heat to rise through the tube x, a, and pass
into the receiver J, J, J, J. This liquid passes through the tube m¹, m¹, m¹, to the
bottom of the receiver J, J, J, J. On the other hand the ammoniacal gas from the
cylinder exhaust is conducted through an opening P¹, and is spread over the under.
side of a perforated plate Q1, Q', which causes the ammoniacal gas to become divided
in the solution.
As the absorption of the ammoniacal gas by the solution disengages heat, water
from the well is caused to pass into the coil or into the tubes L through an opening;
the water passes through the tubes and out through the tube P. In this manner the
latent heat of the vapours employed is absorbed by the current of water from the well.
The pump I by means of a valve i¹, raises the re-formed ammoniacal solution and
forces it into the calorific plates as already described. As these plates are supplied
with liquid in a very cold state while the liquid which passes out is very hot I cause
these two currents to pass through an exchanger formed of two concentric tubes, and
arranged either as a coil or in any other suitable manner,

page_text: By this arrangement the hot liquid issuing from the plates reaches the dissolving
tank or receiver J, J, J, J, in a cold state while on the contrary the re-formed liquid
coming from the tank or receiver reaches the calorific plates in a hot state.
It is not only atmospheric heat which I propose to employ but also that of thermal
springs and generally the waste heat from various commercial industries. For this
purpose it is merely necessary for each case to modify the arrangement of the calorific
plates in order to allow them to absorb the utilizable caloric.
Having thus 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. The employment of a cylinder and of a piston receiving directly the action of
vapours from calorific plates, in combination with an apparatus effecting a continuous
condensation for the purpose of producing motive power.
2. Utilizing the cooling action of the water from a well for effecting the condensation
of the vapours which have produced motive power by assisting their absorption or
their liquifaction.
3. The use of an exchanger for cooling the liquid coming from the plates and heating
that which is passing to them.
4. The use when ammonia is employed of a pump actuated by the motor the action
of the pump being combined with that of a float which automatically supplies the
tank or receiver.
5. The use of a glazed surface arranged above the plates so as to completely attract
and obtain the heat.
6. The combination of flat calorific surfaces formed of two sheet iron plates con-
nected by rivets and held apart at a distance of several millimetres either by rivetted
cross pieces or by intermediate rivets, the sheet iron plates in the latter case being
corrugated before being rivetted or formed with swellings and depressions after being
rivetted by means of an injection from a hydraulic press in order to obtain interior
spaces for the circulation of the liquid employed.
Dated the 20th
1007
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.