US22653A - Cattle-pump - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. IRVIN, OF CARLINVILLE, ILLINOIS.

CATTLE-PUMP.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 22,653, dated January 18, 1859*.

To ,all `whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. IRWIN, of

Carlinville, in the vcounty of Macoupin and n responding parts in the two figures.

This invention relates to an improvement in water pumping devices in which stock are made to raise the water they drink by means of their own weight or gravity.

The invention consists in attaching jointed or rising and falling platforms by means of ropes or chains to a drum which has a Ipulley of comparatively large diameter placed loosely on it, and connected with the drum, when the latter is t-urned in one direction only, the drum having a weight attached to it, the pulley being connected wit-h a pump, and the whole arranged to operate as hereinafter shown and described so as to effect the desired object.

To enable those skilled in t-he art to fully understand and construct my invention I will proceed to describe it.

A, represents a suitable framing in which two plat-forms B, B, are placed, the outer ends of said platforms being connected by joints or hinges a, a, to the frame so that the inner ends may rise and fall. The two platforms are of equal width and nearly equal in width to the space between the sides of the framing, sufficient room being allowed to insure a free movement of the platforms.

To the inner ends of both platforms B, B, ropes or chains b, are attached. The upper ends of these chains are attached to a drum C, which has two different diameters c, (Z, the chains being attached to the smaller portion c, of the drum. To the larger portion d, o-f the drum C, a ratchet D, is attached. This ratchet is secured to the end of the larger part d, of the drum C, and it adjoins a pulley D, of comparatively large diameter, which pulley is placed loosely on the drum, or on its axis or shaft. This pulley has a pawl e, attached to it, said pawl catching into the teeth of the ratchet D, and causing the pulley to be rot-ated with the drum when the latter is turned in `one direction as indicated by arrow l. To the larger .portion d, of the drum C, a rope or chain E, is attached. This chain has a weight F, at its lower end.

The framing A, may be sunk about two feet into the ground and the platforms B, B, be about one foot above the surface so that the platforms will have a rise and fall of three feet. The pulley D, may be sixv feet in diameter. I do not confine myself to any particular dimensions but perhaps the above will be generally used.

Then the weight F, is down to its fullest extent the platforms B, B', are elevated to their eXtreme height, the weight F, being very considerably heavier than is necessary for this purpose alone.

The pulley D, is connected by a belt with t-he wheel or shaft of a chain pump, or it may be connected with any form of pump by any suitable means.

The device above described is placed at the entrance of an inclosure G, within which are the pump and well. The cattle in order to get into this inclosure must necessarily pass over the platforms B, B, and in `so doing the platforms are depressed and the weights F, raised, in consequence of the chains b, rotating the drum C, the pulley D, remaining static-nary. The chain E, of the weight F, is of course wound on the larger portion CZ, of t-he drum in a reverse direction to the chains b. As an animal passes off the platform into the inclosure the weight F, rotates the drum C, in the direction of arrow l, and the pulley D, will consequently be rotated with it, by means of the pawl e, and ratchet D, and the pump actuated, the weight at the same time raising the platforms B, B', to their original position so that a succeeding animal in entering the inclosure will in its turn actuate the pump in like manner. It will be seen that the animals actuate the pump in passing both in and out of the inclosure and a trough therefore may always be kept full of water for their use.

By this invention a durable self pumping device is obtained. It is perfectly immaterial as regards the weight of the animals, they cannot injure the device as the pump is operated by a constant power, viz, the weight F, the animals merely raising the weight and not acting by their gravity directly on the pump. The device therefore is not liable to get out of repair which might otherwise be the case in consequence of the varying weight of cattle or in their passing over the platforms at an immoderate speed.

I am aware that rising and falling platforms have been employed and connected with pumps in such a way that animals in passing over them would actuate the pump, but I am not aware of any arrangement like the one herein described whereby the animals do not directly actuate the pumps but only raise a weight which serves as a constant power toactuate the pump. I do not claim therefore the use Vof rising and falling platforms separately considered; but,

I do claim as new and desire to secure by 2o Letters Patent,

The platforms B, B', weight F, drum C, and pulley D, placed loosely on drum C, and connected with it by the pawl e, and ratchet D, the whole being combined and 25 arranged to operate as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN H. IRWIN.

Witnesses:

JOHN S. `WOLFE, ROBERT A. IRWIN.

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