THE PRODUCTION OF MOTIVE POWER, WHICH HE ENTITLES COUNTERACTING REACTION MOTIVE POWER ENGINE.
Year: 1853

page_text: County of Middlesex, Physician and Surgeon, for an Invention for
"THE PRODUCTION OF MOTIVE POWER, WHICH HE ENTITLES
COUNTERACTING REACTION MOTIVE POWER ENGINE.'
THE
Sealed the 19th July 1853, and dated the 5th April 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said, William Willcocks
Sleigh at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 5th April 1853.
I, WILLIAM WILLCOCKS SLEIGH, of London, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Physician and Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for PRODUCING MOTIVE POWER, WHICH I ENTITLE "THE
COUNTERACTING REACTION MOTIVE POWER ENGINE," " to be as follows:-
Producing the motion of an axletree, and any machinery that may
be attached thereto, by the application of water, or of any suitable fluid
or liquid, by a forcing pump, through the centre of the axle tree, to
certain chambers fixed to said axletree; said chambers being so con-
structed that the force or pressure of said fluid or liquid, which is in the
direction opposite to that in which it is intended motion should take

page_text: place, is by certain contrivance counteracted or resisted, and thus motion
is produced; which production of motion not depending on or being
produced by the exit or escape of any portion of said fluid from
said chambers, is what I claim as THE PRINCIPLE of my Invention,
irrespective of any peculiar form or shape or materials of said engine
Explanation of the expressions "certain contrivance" used by me in
my Provisional Specification.
"Certain contrivance" consists of levers extending from the lids of the
chambers, so as to support said lids without their being tied to any part
of said chambers; the distant ends or extremities of said levers being
supported without counteracting the action of the liquid or fluid against
the bottom of the chambers, that is, in the direction in which motion is
to take place.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Willcocks Sleigh, in the Great Seal
Patent Office, on the 1st October 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, a
WILLIAM WILLCOCKS SLEIGH, of London, in the County of Middlesex,
Physician and Surgeon, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth Day of April, A.D. Eighteen
hundred and fifty-three, in the sixteenth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Willcocks Sleigh, Her special licence that I, the said
William Willcocks Sleigh, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said William Willcocks Sleigh, 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,

page_text: and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, an Invention for "THE
COUNTERACTING REACTION MOTIVE POWER ENGINE," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Willcocks Sleigh, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Willcocks Sleigh, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, that is to say:
The nature of my said Invention consists in producing motive power
by means of water, or of any suitable fluid or liquid, acting by a forcing
pump, or other well-known means, in certain chambers fixed to an
axletree, the said chambers being so constructed that that portion or
aspect of the pressure, force, or power, which is in the direction opposite
to that in which it is intended motion should take place, (and which
said portion or aspect of said pressure, force, or power I call "the re-
action,") is neutralized, resisted, or counteracted in such a way, and by
such contrivance or apparatus, that the said reaction should not counter-
act that portion or direction of the said pressure, force, or power of said
fluid or liquid which is in the direction of the intended motion. The
said motion not depending upon, nor being produced by, the exit or
escape of any of said fluid or liquid from said chambers; the which will
be rendered plain by reference to the annexed drawings, signed by me;
similar letters on each drawing denoting similar parts.
Figure 1, a vertical sectional drawing of "the Counteracting Re-
action Motive Power Engine."
A, A, a frame work which supports the axletree and apparatus, and
on which they are freely to move.
B, the axletree, having a horizontal passage (a) through its centre,
forming a communication between the pump R, and the sacks E, and I.

page_text: C, a chamber (which I call "the motive chamber ") firmly fixed to;
the axletree.
D, the lid of said chamber, attached by a hinge joint to the chamber
at b.
E, a sack, of waterproof elastic cloth, communicating by means of a 5
pipe c, with the pump R, through an aperture in the chamber at d.
F, F, two pillars fixed to the axletree.
G, the counteracting chamber, firmly fixed to and supported by the
pillars F, F.
H, I, the lid of the counteracting chamber; the upright portion of 1
said lid is attached by a hinge joint (m) to its horizontal part.
I, a sack, of waterproof elastic cloth, communicating by a pipe with
the pump K.
K, K, a rod attached to the axletree by a hinge joint.
L, L, a pillar extending from the lid D, and attached to the rod K, 1
by a hinge joint.
M, M, a curved rod attached by a hinge joint to K, and L, and to the
lid H, H, by a hinge joint at (m).
N, N, bars firmly fixed to the lid H, at e, e.
0, 0, a rod fixed by a hinge joint to the lid H, to the pillar P, at (f), 2
and to the pillars F, F, at (h), by hinge joints.
P, a pillar supported by the rod O, at f, and giving support to the
bar N.
Q, a tube forming a cominunication with the perforation in the axle-
tree with the pump, and with the sacks E, and I.
R, a forcing pump, with its handle.
S, a stuffing box.
T, T, T, stop cocks.
Figure 2, an end view of said engine.
Figure 3, a bird's eye view of the chambers, &c.
The nature of the metal, the strength of the various parts, and the
form of the whole apparatus, must depend upon the power intended to be
produced, and hence left to the judgment of the engineer. A similar set
of chambers and apparatus may be fixed to the same axletree, in such
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page_text: a position and direction as to co-operate with those already described,
and to produce an augmentation of motive power.
From all which it must be evident that when the chambers are
filled with water by the pump, and force applied to its handle, the said
pressure or force acting against the lid D, being counteracted by the
aforesaid apparatus, the force or pressure acting on the bottom of the
chamber C, must produce a rotatory motion of said chambers, axletree,
apparatus attached thereto, and any machinery connected by any ordinary
means to said axletree at g.
Now, whereas I claim as my Invention the nature or principle on
and by which this said "Counteracting Reaction Motive Power Engine,"
produces motive power, and which principle consists in the production
of motive power by counteracting the reaction of the pressure or force
of water, or of any suitable fluid or liquid, conveyed by a forcing
pump or other suitable means into certain chamber or chambers, the
said motion not depending upon, nor being produced by, the exit or
escape of any of said fluid or liquid from the chamber or chambers in
which the force or pressure is to operate or act.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Willcocks Sleigh, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this 26th day of September,
W. W. SLEIGH. (L.S.)