US10610A - Method of operating hydraulic bams - Google Patents

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEicE.;

CLARK POIJIJEY, OF MAYS LANDING, NEW JERSEY.

METHOD or OPERATING HYDRAULIC.' RAMs.

To all 'whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, CLARK PoLLEY, of Mays Landing, in the county of Atlantic and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Submarine Hydraulic Ram for the purpose of Elevating Water; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact. description of the construction and operation-of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a partV of this specification, in whichi Figure l, is a perspective view, and Fig. 2, a vertical section of the same.

The same letters indicate like parts in both figures.

Where water is to be elevated-from wells or cisterns-to a considera-ble height, forcing pumps are the machines ordinarily employed; the practical objections to which Aare their exp'ensiveness and their liability to frequent and serious derangements, owing to the enormous pressure to which they are subjected.

The object of my invention is to avoid these objections byv substituting in place of the expensive and fragile forcing pump, the cheap, simple Aand durable hydraulic ram, working in combination with an ordinary and inexpensive suction or lifting pump, and so arranged as practically toremove nearly all the strain and wear from the pump to the ram, resulting. in great economy both in power and expense.

The nature of my invention and the manner in which I construct my machine is asfollows.

In the accompanying drawings, A, Fig. 1, represents an air-tight box or chambersubmerged at the bottom of a well,-within which are inclosed av pump and hydraulic ram; B Fig. 1, represents a coil of pipe, through which flows-from the surfacethe water, by the pressure and momentum of which the ram is to be' operated; C, Fig. 1, represents the conduct pipe conveying the water from the ram to the receiving reservoir; and E, Fig. 1, represents a clock work machine (for. which may be substituted other and sufficient power) so constructedV by means of the connecting rod, R, to work f the pump within the chamber and removing therefrom, ythrough the pipe D, the waste water of the ram.

The adjustment of the ram and pump within the chamber, A, is represented' in Fig.. 2,.whyich-With the-exception of the pipe B being perpendicular instead of ,i v

coiled-is'an exact vertical section of Fig. l.

Thewater passes from the surface down through the pipe, B, and flows out at H', until suddenly arrested by the closing of the valve it reacts upon itseltand a'portion l is forced into the air-chamber of the ram at H, whence it is elevated by the atmospheric pressure therein, through the pipe C, to the i i receiving tank, F. n

The waste water of the ram flows outinto the bottom of the chamber, A, and through the aperture u whence it is removed by the slow and constant action of 'the pump, O,

operated as beforev stated.

I-do not wish to be confined to the specific mode above described of adjusting the various parts of my invention, but to retainV to myself the privilege of altering these at myk pleasure,.but not in such manner as suby stantially to modify or lchange its character. I do not cla'im in any manner the pump or hydraulic ram, but

What I do claim as my invention anddesire to secure by Letters Patent isy The air-tight box or chamber, A, having within it and in combinationtherewith and with each other-substantially as herein set forth-the hydraulic ram and pump, `and having suitable pipes attached in such manner as, that` when the apparatus is submerged and the pump worked from above,

the ram will be free to operate by the pressure and momentumy of the water resting above it. I i

- CLARK POLLEY,

Witnesses:

JOHN I. EsTELL, WILLIAM B. BROWN.

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