IMPROVEMENTS IN " ORTAINING MOTIVE POWER
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Jones Schollick, of Aldingham Hall,
Ulverston, Esquire, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
"
ORTAINING MOTIVE POWER."
Sealed the 22nd July 1853, and dated the 20th May 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Jones
Schollick at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 20th May 1853.
I, EDWARD JONES SCHOLLICK, of Aldingham Hall, Ulverston, Esquire,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of a combination of apparatus which
decomposes water by electric currents into its component gases, as is
well understood; such gases are caused to be passed into a cylinder
within which a piston works, and then by a second electric apparatus
electric currents cause the gases to be exploded, and thus is motion
given to the piston in one direction; when, the valves and apparatus

page_text: being reversed in their action, the gases are admitted to the other side
of the piston and there exploded, by which the piston is moved in the
opposite direction.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Jones Schollick in the Great Seal Patent
Office. on the 19th November 1853.
TO ALL. TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
EDWARD JONES SCHOLLICK, of Aldingham Hall, Ulverston, Esquire,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her.most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Edward Jones Schollick, Her
special licence that I, the said Edward Jones Schollick, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Edward Jones Schollick, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to tinie
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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER,"
upon the condition (amongst others.) that I, the said Edward Jones
Schollick, by an instrument in writing under my hand and scal, 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 Edward Jones Schollick, do
hereby declare the nature of the 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 thereof (that is to say):
"
This Invention consists of a combination of apparatus which decom-

page_text: poses water by electric currents into its component gases, as is well
understood; such gases are caused to be passed into a cylinder within
which a piston works, and then by a second electric, apparatus:
eléctric currents cause the gases to be exploded, and thus is motion
given to the piston in one direction; when, the valves and apparatus
being reversed in their action, the gases are admitted to the other side
of the piston and there exploded, by which the piston is moved in the
opposite direction.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to
describe the ineaus of performing the same.
The working pistons and cylinders, and the valves used in letting
on and shutting off the flow of gas, are similar to like parts of a steam
engine; and in combination with such a cylinder or cylinders a vessel
containing water is used, and I make such vessel of about five times
the cubic contents of the cylinder or cylinders employed. The vessel is
to contain a quantity of water, say about one third of its capacity, which
is to be constantly being decomposed by a suitable galvanic battery;
and the interior of the cylinders or cylinder used is also to be in con-
nection with a galvanic battery in such manner that the moving of the
piston may cause the connection of the two poles of the battery to be
made immediately the cylinder or cylinders have become about two
thirds full of gas, and the valve or valves have cut off the further supply
of gas thereto, when the exploding of the gas by the electric current will
drive the piston or pistons the remainder of the stroke, and this will be
followed by vacuity on that side of the piston or pistons at the time the
valve or valves will be opened to admit gas to the other side of the
piston or pistons. I prefer that the cylinder or cylinders used should
be surrounded by the water in the vessel where the, gas is obtained,
and in order to get rid of the water resulting from the exploding of the
gas 1 employ a tube from each end of the cylinder with a valve
opening outwards, by which the water will be driven back to the
vessel where the water is decomposed. And in order to prevent the gas
exploding in the generating vessel, a partition of wire gauze is introduced
in the passage leading from the vessel to the valve or valves of the
cylinder or cylinders.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that I do
not claim any of the parts separately, they being well known, nor do I
confine myself to the details herein mentioned. But what I claim is.
the combination of the parts herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Jones Schollick, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
Witness,
H. W. CARPMAEL.
E. J. SCHOLLICK. (L.S.)