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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo
HALEY S. RAMSEY, OF COMANCHE, TEXAS.
BALANCED PUMP.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,241, dated April 20, i1886.
Application filed September 19, 1885. Serial Io. 180,681. (No model.)To all w7hoM it 77ay concern:
Be it known that I, HALEY S. RAMSEY, a
citizen of the United States, residing at Co-
manche, in the con nty of Comanche and.State
5 of Texas, have invented certain new and use-
ful Improvements in Balanced Pumps; and I
do declare the following to be a full, clear, and
exact description of the invention, such as will
enable others skilled in the art to which it ap-
to pertains to make and use the same, reference
being had to the accompanying drawings, and
to the letters and figures of reference marked
thereon, which form a part of this specifica-
tion.
15 My invention relates to improvements in
balanced pumps having two vertical receiv-
ing-cylinders provided with vertically-recip-
rocating plungers, and two vertical delivery-
cylinders provided with plunging-barrels, all
20 being provided with suitable valves operating
automatically in conjunction therewith; and
the objects of my improvements are, first, to
provide a pump by means of which water or
other fluids may be conducted or raised with
25 but little propelling power, and, second, to af-
ford facilities for readily attaching it to be
driven by any steam-engine or motive power.
I attain these objects by the mechanism illus-
trated in the accompanying drawings, in
30 which-
Figure 1 is a vertical elevation of the ma-
chine, partly in section; Fig. 2, a top view of
the same.
Similar letters refer to similar parts through-
35 out the several views.
The vertical cylinders A A are bolted to
bed-plate B. which plate forms a bottom head
for them. Through this plate are openings C,
which are closed by valves D, which are on
40 the upper side of said plate, on the inside of
the cylinders A A. E, Fig. 1, is a yoked
plunger provided with a central opening. On
the upper side of this plunger is a valve, a.
F F are two flexible conductors or tubes.
45 These tubes respectively connect with the top
of the plunger-barrel G and the cylinder A.
They are attached to said barrel and cylinder
near their tops. ff are expansion-joints on
the conductors F F. The ends of said con-
50 ductors are connected to the plunger-barrels
G and cylinders A by rocking water-tight
joints, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1,whichjoints allow the conductors to freely accommo-
date themselves to the rectilinear movements
of the straight plunger-barrels, which barrels 55
are adapted to reciprocate in vertical lines, as
shown. These water-tight and expansion
joints admit of the barrels being moved up
and down. G G are plunger-barrels, which
have a vertical movement in the stationary 6o
vertical cylinders H H. The plunger-barrels
G are provided with openings e and valves b
on their under sides. I I are pipes leading
from the under sides of the cylinders H H, re-
spectively, to the reservoir J, said pipes com- 65
municating with the cylinders H and reser-
voir.
K is a shaft, (which may be mounted on suit-
able bearings,) provided with two opposite
crank-arms, ii. The outer ends of these arms 70
are connected to the upper ends of rods M iM.
The lower ends of said rods are centrally con-
nected to cross-arms NN. On one end of each
of said cross-arms is connected the top of the
piston-rod g, and the other end of the arm is 75
connected to the top of the plunger-barrel G.
L is a band on the shaft K, by means of
which power may be communicated to the op-
erative parts.
It should be borne in mind that all the parts 80
hereinbefore specified, whether designated in
the singular or plural, are in duplicate, ex-
cepting theplate B, shaft K, band-wheel L, and
reservoir J.
The operation of the device is as follows: 85
When the shaft K is rotated, the arms ii turn
with it. This movement imparts a recipro-
cating movement to the cross-arms N N, plun-
ger-barrels G G, rods g g, and yoked plungers
E. On the upward stroke of the plungers E go
the valve D is opened (the opening under said
valve communicating with a suitable supply-
pipe) and water admitted to the cylinder A.
On the downward stroke of said plunger the
valve a thereon is opened, and thewater passes 95
upward and out through the flexible tube F,
and thence into the plunger-barrel G. On the
upward stroke of the barrel G the valve b there-
on is opened, and the water passes through
the opening e into the cylinder H, from which i o
cylinder it is forced into the pipe I, and thence
into the reservoir J on the downstroke of said
barrel.
Having thus described my invention, I claim
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Ramsey, Haley S. Balanced Pump., patent, April 20, 1886; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth171238/m1/2/: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.